Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 1

Gianluca Sartori (1/27/2012)
Or maybe "just give me the split function".

Awesome - I didn't even bother reading that one. I like the link Cadavre posted on the other one. Includes the immortal line, "Car doesn't work. Plz fix. It is urgent! Thx!!".

Says it all really.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259125 More actions · Answer 2

Gianluca Sartori (1/27/2012)
SQL Kiwi (1/27/2012)
Evil Kraig F (1/27/2012)
On yet another note, what is it, "Spoon Feed me my job" day?
If you are referring to "please reply me of my question only .Thanks", I would say yes.
Maybe that.
Or maybe "just give me the split function".

Oh boy. :rolleyes:

That reminds me of the time I provided a link to an article that contained the solution.

I got the swift reply: "No links. Only code samples plz. Its urgent."

I replied: "Read the damn article, everything's in there" (but in a more polite way)

Reply: "I don't have time to read all that. I hoped you would just give the answer. It's urgent" (but apparently not urgent enough to wait for me to type out an entire reply)

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259125 More actions · Answer 3

SQL Kiwi (1/27/2012)
Gianluca Sartori (1/27/2012)
Or maybe "just give me the split function".
Awesome - I didn't even bother reading that one. I like the link Cadavre posted on the other one. Includes the immortal line, "Car doesn't work. Plz fix. It is urgent! Thx!!".
Says it all really.

Best-article-ever 🙂

I keep it in my signature for over a year now. I wonder if someone has already clicked on it and read it.

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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 4

On a totally different note, I was looking for a good open source project management software for a client of mine and I found this one[/url] that looks pretty cool.

I installed it on a test VM and started to play with it.

I opened the database to see how I could plug my own code and this is what I found.

OMG.

Keep devs away from the database. If you see one approaching with some Hibernate code, shoot: the judge will agree.

-- Gianluca Sartori

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 5

Koen Verbeeck (1/27/2012)
I got the swift reply: "No links. Only code samples plz. Its urgent."

Whenever I see "...it's urgent...", I think: "Not for me it isn't."

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 6

If I'm helping someone and they come back and say something about urgent, that thread automatically goes to the bottom of my things to look at.

"It's urgent" = "I'm more important than everyone else here and hence you must help me first". Um, no.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259125 More actions · Answer 7

SQL Kiwi (1/27/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (1/27/2012)
I got the swift reply: "No links. Only code samples plz. Its urgent."
Whenever I see "...it's urgent...", I think: "Not for me it isn't."

Indeed 🙂

Found a similar thread from a while ago:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1220141-148-1.aspx#bm1220214

Apparently Google is slower than human beings typing out lengthy answers.

I totally lost my temper with that one. :blush:

Wait. Does this mean we're back on topic? :w00t:

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259125 More actions · Answer 8

GilaMonster (1/27/2012)
If I'm helping someone and they come back and say something about urgent, that thread automatically goes to the bottom of my things to look at.
"It's urgent" = "I'm more important than everyone else here and hence you must help me first". Um, no.

I love some of those topic titles:

"pls help me. Itz urgent."

With absolute no summary of the problem at all.

Most of the time in caps or with smileys.

Mmmmm. Shall I click on that one?

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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 9

Koen Verbeeck (1/27/2012)
SQL Kiwi (1/27/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (1/27/2012)
I got the swift reply: "No links. Only code samples plz. Its urgent."
Whenever I see "...it's urgent...", I think: "Not for me it isn't."
Indeed 🙂
Found a similar thread from a while ago:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1220141-148-1.aspx#bm1220214
Apparently Google is slower than human beings typing out lengthy answers.
I totally lost my temper with that one. :blush:
Wait. Does this mean we're back on topic? :w00t:

Only JUST long enough to confuse Roy.

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

My favourite 'not enough information' recently was at SQLTeam. Question basically stated "The following code throws an error. Please help

Dim CPDHourUpdate As SqlDataSource = New SqlDataSource() CPDHourUpdate.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("Application").ToString() CPDHourUpdate.UpdateCommand = "UPDATE UserDetails SET CPD_Hours = CPD_Hours + 2 WHERE UserId = @userid" CPDHourUpdate.UpdateParameters.Add("UserId", Session("UserID").ToString()) Dim rowsAffected As Integer = CPDHourUpdate.Update()"

That's it, nothing else. Now the update looks syntactically valid, and I don't know VB enough to tell if there's something wrong with the rest. I asked for the error message and the table definition as without those I wouldn't be able to help.

The reply was "So don't answer then??? Just a suggestion...."

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259125 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster (1/27/2012)
The reply was "So don't answer then??? Just a suggestion...."

Pffff. We don't get paid enough for this. 😀

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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 12

GilaMonster (1/27/2012)
My favourite 'not enough information' recently was at SQLTeam. Question basically stated "The following code throws an error. Please help
Dim CPDHourUpdate As SqlDataSource = New SqlDataSource() CPDHourUpdate.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("Application").ToString() CPDHourUpdate.UpdateCommand = "UPDATE UserDetails SET CPD_Hours = CPD_Hours + 2 WHERE UserId = @userid" CPDHourUpdate.UpdateParameters.Add("UserId", Session("UserID").ToString()) Dim rowsAffected As Integer = CPDHourUpdate.Update()"
That's it, nothing else. Now the update looks syntactically valid, and I don't know VB enough to tell if there's something wrong with the rest. I asked for the error message and the table definition as without those I wouldn't be able to help.
The reply was "So don't answer then??? Just a suggestion...."

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 13

GilaMonster (1/27/2012)
Dim CPDHourUpdate As SqlDataSource = New SqlDataSource() CPDHourUpdate.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("Application").ToString() CPDHourUpdate.UpdateCommand = "UPDATE UserDetails SET CPD_Hours = CPD_Hours + 2 WHERE UserId = @userid" CPDHourUpdate.UpdateParameters.Add("UserId", Session("UserID").ToString()) Dim rowsAffected As Integer = CPDHourUpdate.Update()"

My complete guess would be that the first "UserId" parameter to the Add method ought to be "@UserId". But that would be me missing the point by quite some margin. In other news: Google indexes scarily fast:

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173083 More actions · Answer 14

Roy Ernest (1/26/2012)
Somebody please put the brakes on the THREAD. It keeps moving from one random topic to another. It does not even care who gets run over with these topic changes.

SCREECH! <crash>

Whoops. I hope that wasn't your squirrel I just hit.

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173083 More actions · Answer 15

So, question of the day. How do you help people who refuse to be helped? People who are resistant to your suggestions of "test it" or "try this".

I'm talking forum peeps AND people you may know locally.

Thoughts?

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