Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Do you have any messages in Sent Items/ Deleted Items ?

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  • David Burrows (4/12/2012)


    Do you have any messages in Sent Items/ Deleted Items ?

    I have a total of 41 messages (per the CP) in all my buckets.

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  • What would happen here on SSC if the TOP 25 posters did nothing but lurk for 24 hours?

  • Lynn Pettis (4/12/2012)


    What would happen here on SSC if the TOP 25 posters did nothing but lurk for 24 hours?

    A cool april fools prank.

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  • Lynn Pettis (4/12/2012)


    What would happen here on SSC if the TOP 25 posters did nothing but lurk for 24 hours?

    Not much. There'd just be a few more unchallenged suggestions that someone either shrink their database or use the NO_LOCK hint.

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  • Grant Fritchey (4/12/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (4/12/2012)


    What would happen here on SSC if the TOP 25 posters did nothing but lurk for 24 hours?

    Not much. There'd just be a few more unchallenged suggestions that someone either shrink their database or use the NO_LOCK hint.

    Let the "repair allow data loss" marathon begin!!!

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  • GSquared (4/12/2012)


    Grant Fritchey (4/12/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (4/12/2012)


    What would happen here on SSC if the TOP 25 posters did nothing but lurk for 24 hours?

    Not much. There'd just be a few more unchallenged suggestions that someone either shrink their database or use the NO_LOCK hint.

    Let the "repair allow data loss" marathon begin!!!

    No, it is the "multiple log files" marathon

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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  • I'm getting very frustrated (and very saddened) by the (apparently) increasing number of people who seem to feel that writing T-SQL is about throwing code segments together at random apparently believing that some odd combination of clauses will work and not checking in the documentation to see what the syntax permits when their random combination of fragments of multiple commands doesn't work.

    Am I alone here?

    Gail Shaw
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    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • GilaMonster (4/12/2012)


    I'm getting very frustrated (and very saddened) by the (apparently) increasing number of people who seem to feel that writing T-SQL is about throwing code segments together at random apparently believing that some odd combination of clauses will work and not checking in the documentation to see what the syntax permits when their random combination of fragments of multiple commands doesn't work.

    Am I alone here?

    Nope, and me thinks I know where you are coming from.

  • GilaMonster (4/12/2012)


    I'm getting very frustrated (and very saddened) by the (apparently) increasing number of people who seem to feel that writing T-SQL is about throwing code segments together at random apparently believing that some odd combination of clauses will work and not checking in the documentation to see what the syntax permits when their random combination of fragments of multiple commands doesn't work.

    Am I alone here?

    So are you saying I've been doing wrong all these years?:-P

  • Lynn Pettis (4/12/2012)


    GilaMonster (4/12/2012)


    I'm getting very frustrated (and very saddened) by the (apparently) increasing number of people who seem to feel that writing T-SQL is about throwing code segments together at random apparently believing that some odd combination of clauses will work and not checking in the documentation to see what the syntax permits when their random combination of fragments of multiple commands doesn't work.

    Am I alone here?

    Nope, and me thinks I know where you are coming from.

    Count me in.

  • Both printers here are acting up. One doesn't want to inject ink on the the paper. The other keeps sending offline messages to the computers.

    Today is a day I am tempted to throw one of them off the roof.

  • Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/12/2012)


    Today is a day I am tempted to throw one of them off the roof.

    Photos of the aftermath are required. :hehe:

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    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • GilaMonster (4/12/2012)


    I'm getting very frustrated (and very saddened) by the (apparently) increasing number of people who seem to feel that writing T-SQL is about throwing code segments together at random apparently believing that some odd combination of clauses will work and not checking in the documentation to see what the syntax permits when their random combination of fragments of multiple commands doesn't work.

    Am I alone here?

    Like the people who put "If Else" in the Where clause?

    Or the ones who use IsNumeric and end up still getting conversion errors?

    Or do you have something more specific in mind?

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  • Lynn Pettis (4/12/2012)


    GilaMonster (4/12/2012)


    I'm getting very frustrated (and very saddened) by the (apparently) increasing number of people who seem to feel that writing T-SQL is about throwing code segments together at random apparently believing that some odd combination of clauses will work and not checking in the documentation to see what the syntax permits when their random combination of fragments of multiple commands doesn't work.

    Am I alone here?

    Nope, and me thinks I know where you are coming from.

    You've probably seen the post that triggered today's rant, but it's far from the first case.

    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

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