November 9, 2011 at 7:54 am
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/9/2011)
Am I the only 1 who wants to answer... if you don't know that, then why are you teaching this stuff??http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1202806-150-1.aspx
Haven't you forgotten the old saying - 'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach'? :hehe: 😛
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
November 9, 2011 at 7:57 am
GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/9/2011)
Am I the only 1 who wants to answer... if you don't know that, then why are you teaching this stuff??http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1202806-150-1.aspx
Haven't you forgotten the old saying - 'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach'? :hehe: 😛
I can think of at least 50-100 exceptions. 😉
But this one takes the cake. Hi, I want to teach ssrs, the most ressource intensive work in ss, but I don't know how to test if 30 users work on it at the same time on that 30 rows report! :w00t:
November 9, 2011 at 8:03 am
GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/9/2011)
Am I the only 1 who wants to answer... if you don't know that, then why are you teaching this stuff??http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1202806-150-1.aspx
Haven't you forgotten the old saying - 'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach'? :hehe: 😛
And those who shouldn't, post their interview questions to forums.
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
Property of The Thread
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon
November 9, 2011 at 8:07 am
GSquared (11/9/2011)
GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/9/2011)
Am I the only 1 who wants to answer... if you don't know that, then why are you teaching this stuff??http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1202806-150-1.aspx
Haven't you forgotten the old saying - 'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach'? :hehe: 😛
And those who shouldn't, post their interview questions to forums.
What is your name?
What is your quest?
What is your favorite color?
November 9, 2011 at 8:13 am
Brandie Tarvin (11/9/2011)
GSquared (11/9/2011)
GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/9/2011)
Am I the only 1 who wants to answer... if you don't know that, then why are you teaching this stuff??http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1202806-150-1.aspx
Haven't you forgotten the old saying - 'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach'? :hehe: 😛
And those who shouldn't, post their interview questions to forums.
What is your name?
What is your quest?
What is your favorite color?
I would love to get those interview questions, but I never have.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
November 9, 2011 at 8:15 am
Stefan Krzywicki (11/9/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (11/9/2011)
GSquared (11/9/2011)
GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/9/2011)
Am I the only 1 who wants to answer... if you don't know that, then why are you teaching this stuff??http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1202806-150-1.aspx
Haven't you forgotten the old saying - 'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach'? :hehe: 😛
And those who shouldn't, post their interview questions to forums.
What is your name?
What is your quest?
What is your favorite color?
I would love to get those interview questions, but I never have.
I've asked 'em in an interview. The interviewee passed, because he just exclaimed "I don't know that!" and made the right "screaming noise". Worked for me!
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
Property of The Thread
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon
November 9, 2011 at 8:22 am
WayneS (11/9/2011)
L' Eomot Inversé (11/8/2011)
The third myth is that normalisation is difficult to understand, intellectually challenging. It isn't - it's just that it's pretty rare that anyone describes it in everyday terms instead of in academic jargon.Anyone have good examples of it being described in everyday terms? Books (to learn by) preferred....
Sorry, I don't have any good examples. (But I've been trying to write some.)
Regrettably I can't remember what book or whose lecture notes I used way back when; and anyway I learned a lot from conversations and letters and later (when technology moved forwards, a bit more than 25 years ago) from email discussions with all sorts of people, so it's quite possible that most of it was not in books. I do recall being pretty horrified by the descriptions in some books I've read, which seemed to me to be obtusely opaque.
Part of the problem is that it is very rarely described in terms of enforcing business rules, or in terms of making it possible to impose the constraints required for the data to make sense, or even in terms of eliminating various undesirable kinds of redundancy, any of which would be easier to understand than the usual descriptions; instead it's described either in terms of eliminating various types of dependency (which have to be defined) without explaining why these types of dependency are desirable, or in terms of undertaking all the lossless (usually with an invalid definition of lossless) decomposition one can find, with the only visible justification being something like "all decomposition is desirable".
Tom
November 9, 2011 at 8:25 am
WayneS (11/9/2011)
L' Eomot Inversé (11/8/2011)
The third myth is that normalisation is difficult to understand, intellectually challenging. It isn't - it's just that it's pretty rare that anyone describes it in everyday terms instead of in academic jargon.Anyone have good examples of it being described in everyday terms? Books (to learn by) preferred....
Sorry, I should have responded to you with this book The Manga Guide to Databases I think it does a pretty good job. I found it at my local Barnes & Noble, so you might try there if you want to leaf through it before buying. Or maybe your local library will have it.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
November 9, 2011 at 8:56 am
GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/9/2011)
Am I the only 1 who wants to answer... if you don't know that, then why are you teaching this stuff??http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1202806-150-1.aspx
Haven't you forgotten the old saying - 'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach'? :hehe: 😛
...and those who can't teach, teach gym.
Jim Murphy
http://www.sqlwatchmen.com
@SQLMurph
November 9, 2011 at 9:13 am
Darn, I was submitting an article here and as soon as I uploaded an image, it removed all the previous text I entered. That was painful. Anyone else seen this behavior here?
-Roy
November 9, 2011 at 9:19 am
Roy Ernest (11/9/2011)
Darn, I was submitting an article here and as soon as I uploaded an image, it removed all the previous text I entered. That was painful. Anyone else seen this behavior here?
The SSC article editor?
Don't. Get. Me. Started.
:crazy:
Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
@SQL_Kiwi
November 9, 2011 at 9:22 am
GSquared (11/9/2011)
I've asked 'em in an interview. The interviewee passed, because he just exclaimed "I don't know that!" and made the right "screaming noise". Worked for me!
I tried that once. Partially successful: we hired the guy, but shortly before his start date he was eaten by a grue.
Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
@SQL_Kiwi
November 9, 2011 at 9:27 am
SQL Kiwi (11/9/2011)
Roy Ernest (11/9/2011)
Darn, I was submitting an article here and as soon as I uploaded an image, it removed all the previous text I entered. That was painful. Anyone else seen this behavior here?The SSC article editor?
Don't. Get. Me. Started.
:crazy:
Yep. The one and the same. I think I have to upload all the images first and then enter the text and then move the images to the right place. :crazy:
-Roy
November 9, 2011 at 9:28 am
SQL Kiwi (11/9/2011)
GSquared (11/9/2011)
I've asked 'em in an interview. The interviewee passed, because he just exclaimed "I don't know that!" and made the right "screaming noise". Worked for me!I tried that once. Partially successful: we hired the guy, but shortly before his start date he was eaten by a grue.
I love Zork! Old school. Typed in various commands (I'm talkin the orig DOS version) until the wee hours. Mapped the place by hand on graph paper. Good times. Also played the orig Kings Quest by Sierra in a brand spankin new IBM PC Jr.
Then I grew up. Sort of.
Jim Murphy
http://www.sqlwatchmen.com
@SQLMurph
November 9, 2011 at 9:34 am
Roy Ernest (11/9/2011)
Darn, I was submitting an article here and as soon as I uploaded an image, it removed all the previous text I entered. That was painful. Anyone else seen this behavior here?
I don't think I've ever used the article editor.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
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