Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Thoughts and prayers for smooth operations and a speedy recovery.

    BTW, Part 2 is very good. Dare I say, even excellent.

    Wayne
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
    Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes


    If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!
    Links:
    For better assistance in answering your questions
    Performance Problems
    Common date/time routines
    Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

  • Bob Hovious (3/11/2009)


    M R Ducks.

    No M R not.

    S M R. Look at M webbed feet.

    L I B !! M R Ducks.

    I haven't thought about that since I lived in Arkansas in the early 80s.

    Arkansas Reading Exam

    It helps to say the letters.

    Wayne
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
    Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes


    If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!
    Links:
    For better assistance in answering your questions
    Performance Problems
    Common date/time routines
    Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

  • RBarryYoung (4/26/2009)


    Not trawling for sympathy on anything folks, just wanted to make sure that you knew what the story was...

    Dang, Barry... that's a snootful. Get better soon and don't worry about Part 2 of the cursor article... like Gail said, we'll handle the heathens for you. I bought some special pork chops just for the occasion. And, pardon the pun but I hope everything comes out all right. 😉

    --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)

  • Thanks Guys and Gails 🙂 I knew I could count on you.

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  • Hi Barry

    Get well soon!!

    Flo

  • Get well soon Barry. All the best 🙂

    My wife had gallstones. I cannot say I know how you feel but I understand it. They tried keyhole but failed and when they removed it their were 102 stones in her gallbladder :pinch:

    Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
    Anon.

  • RBarryYoung (4/26/2009)


    (copied from my blog):

    For anyone who has been wondering where I've been, let's jsut say that it has been an eventful two weeks. I am writing this now from my hospistal bed, which it turns out is very difficult, so please forgive any errors.

    I gave my SQL Injection speech two weeks ago (which I think that I did blog about). Then part one of my series "There must be fifteen ways to lose your cursors" was published over at SqlServerCentral.com to a firestorm of response (over 300 posts so far). Then I gave speech on the same topic to Philly.net code camp to very favoarable reviews (so far anyway).

    Then last monday I had to go to the ER for intense stomach pains that were diagnosed a Gallstones. Tuesday I go to see a Surgeon about getting my Gall bladder removed. He schedules me for surgery on May 4 and puts me on an "Absolutely no Fat or Glycol" diet, meaning fruits, vegetables, water and skim milk only. Joy!

    Thursday I have to leave work with stomach pains so bad I almost don't make it home. Then I have my younger son, Chris drive me to the ER again. They say that is is another Gallstone attack but as an added bonus I now have pancreaitis too.

    They say they cannot remove the gall bladder until the pancreaitis goes away, but it is taking its own sweet time. So on monday they will do some surgical procedure to relieve the pancreaitis and assuming that goes OK remove my gall bladder on tuesday.

    Of course part 2 of mu series comes out on Monday, so I guess that Jeff and Lynn and Gus and the others will have to field the questions.

    Hopefully, I will be back soon ...

    Not trawling for sympathy on anything folks, just wanted to make sure that you knew what the story was...

    Trawling or not, you've got it. Feel better Barry. Best wishes.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • David Burrows (4/27/2009)


    their were 102 stones in her gallbladder

    YOWZA!

    Get well soon Barry! I'm sure all will go well.

    -- You can't be late until you show up.

  • Hope things go well, Barry, and she does well.

    Hopefully this thread won't go too crazy without you.

  • New avatar (someone in this thread got me thinking it was time to change)

  • As all the others said, as good as the blog is, forget it and get better soon.

    "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - A.Einstein

  • Get well soon Barry. I hope you feel better soon... And get back to thick of things.. 🙂

    BTW, I am back in my island.

    -Roy

  • Best wishes to Barry for a speedy recovery.

    On a separate subject, can I ask: Are articles checked or reviewed before publication on SSC?

    I ask because I have just seen this one[/url]

    /Facepalm

    BTW - I genuinely don't know the answer, so am after a serious reply too.

    Cheers,

    Paul

  • They are. Just not to the extent of other resources. Steve has a pretty open policy and lets people learn by writing articles. Yeah, sometimes that leads to... interesting... results, but it really does give people a chance to stretch, reach and grow. So the person who wrote this article is probably getting an education. It'll either teach them enough so that the next article they vet their statements or they'll never write again. Either way, they learned something. The rest of us... in this case, not so much.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • Grant Fritchey (4/28/2009)


    Either way, they learned something. The rest of us... in this case, not so much.

    Ha! My new waterproof monitor guard saves the day again!!

    Seriously, thanks for the explanation. 😎

    Paul

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