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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173068 More actions · Answer 1

Stefan Krzywicki (11/9/2011)
I didn't have any problems when I submitted my articles. I did it through the editor. I guess I got lucky.

It's been a while since I've submitted, but I didn't have any issues either.

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 2

I always assumed "submitting through the editor" MEANT Steve...

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 3

jcrawf02 (11/9/2011)
I always assumed "submitting through the editor" MEANT Steve...

Steve will rip my article into pieces for sure. I am not a writer. Therefore I expect to have problems with the Steve Editor as well. His comments are very good though. I like his reviewing process. Each time I learn a bit more about writing. 🙂

-Roy

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 4

Roy Ernest (11/9/2011)
Steve will rip my article into pieces for sure. I am not a writer. Therefore I expect to have problems with the Steve Editor as well. His comments are very good though. I like his reviewing process. Each time I learn a bit more about writing. 🙂

Never worked with Tony Davis have you? Steve's positively gentle in comparison. I sent something to Tony yesterday and between him and Phil Factor I expect it to come back almost completely rewritten.

Gail Shaw
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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 5

Jim Murphy (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 can't teach, teach gym.

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 6

GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Roy Ernest (11/9/2011)
Steve will rip my article into pieces for sure. I am not a writer. Therefore I expect to have problems with the Steve Editor as well. His comments are very good though. I like his reviewing process. Each time I learn a bit more about writing. 🙂
Never worked with Tony Davis have you? Steve's positively gentle in comparison. I sent something to Tony yesterday and between him and Phil Factor I expect it to come back almost completely rewritten.

I got lucky. I just got my article republished by Tony and Phil. This article was already taken apart by 6 people when I initially submitted. Therefore Tony let it slide and published it without a review. 🙂 he has asked me to write another one and that one when I do present it I expect it to be ripped apart. 😀

-Roy

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 7

GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Roy Ernest (11/9/2011)
Steve will rip my article into pieces for sure. I am not a writer. Therefore I expect to have problems with the Steve Editor as well. His comments are very good though. I like his reviewing process. Each time I learn a bit more about writing. 🙂
Never worked with Tony Davis have you? Steve's positively gentle in comparison. I sent something to Tony yesterday and between him and Phil Factor I expect it to come back almost completely rewritten.

That sounds like a good idea. How do we get hooked up with them for the ripping apart?

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 8

GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Never worked with Tony Davis have you?

I found Tony to be very easy to work with, and a very 'light' editor. No dramas.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 9

SQLRNNR (11/9/2011)
GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Roy Ernest (11/9/2011)
Steve will rip my article into pieces for sure. I am not a writer. Therefore I expect to have problems with the Steve Editor as well. His comments are very good though. I like his reviewing process. Each time I learn a bit more about writing. 🙂
Never worked with Tony Davis have you? Steve's positively gentle in comparison. I sent something to Tony yesterday and between him and Phil Factor I expect it to come back almost completely rewritten.
That sounds like a good idea. How do we get hooked up with them for the ripping apart?

You write for Simple Talk.

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

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

SQL Kiwi (11/9/2011)
GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Never worked with Tony Davis have you?
I found Tony to be very easy to work with, and a very 'light' editor. No dramas.

Depends on whether he agrees with what you've written (facts, depth and phrasing) or not.

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

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
SQL Kiwi (11/9/2011)
GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Never worked with Tony Davis have you?
I found Tony to be very easy to work with, and a very 'light' editor. No dramas.
Depends on whether he agrees with what you've written (facts, depth and phrasing) or not.

I guess. Perhaps I have just caught him on 'mellow' days.

Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
@SQL_Kiwi

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 12

SQL Kiwi (11/9/2011)
GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
SQL Kiwi (11/9/2011)
GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Never worked with Tony Davis have you?
I found Tony to be very easy to work with, and a very 'light' editor. No dramas.
Depends on whether he agrees with what you've written (facts, depth and phrasing) or not.
I guess. Perhaps I have just caught him on 'mellow' days.

Could be.

I'm not saying he's a pain to work with. I love working with Tony. It's just that he can be strict as an editor (which is probably what an editor should be)

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

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 13

GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
SQLRNNR (11/9/2011)
GilaMonster (11/9/2011)
Roy Ernest (11/9/2011)
Steve will rip my article into pieces for sure. I am not a writer. Therefore I expect to have problems with the Steve Editor as well. His comments are very good though. I like his reviewing process. Each time I learn a bit more about writing. 🙂
Never worked with Tony Davis have you? Steve's positively gentle in comparison. I sent something to Tony yesterday and between him and Phil Factor I expect it to come back almost completely rewritten.
That sounds like a good idea. How do we get hooked up with them for the ripping apart?
You write for Simple Talk.

OIC

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 14

I don't know if anyone else noticed but Gail isn't just the leading point holder anymore... she's also the leading poster!

[font="Arial Black"]Congrats Gail!!! [/font]

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 15

Jeff Moden (11/10/2011)
I don't know if anyone else noticed but Gail isn't just the leading point holder anymore... she's also the leading poster!
[font="Arial Black"]Congrats Gail!!! [/font]

Actually I caught the very moment it happened!

Ninja's_RGR'us (11/8/2011)
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