Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 1

SQLRNNR (8/15/2012)
Evil Kraig F (8/14/2012)
Lynn Pettis (8/14/2012)
I really, really, REALLY want to ask some of these people if they even know how to think.
Right now Lynn I'm just very glad I didn't say a blessed word when you were dealing with a frustrating person. Go go gadget textwall.
Enjoy Sri Lanka, Tom.
#topicchange
Anyone started following the pre-season games for American Football yet?
Yes - not intently, but to at least start watching

Regarding American Football, nope, haven't watched any yet.

Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 2

Lynn Pettis (8/15/2012)
SQLRNNR (8/15/2012)
Evil Kraig F (8/14/2012)
Lynn Pettis (8/14/2012)
I really, really, REALLY want to ask some of these people if they even know how to think.
Right now Lynn I'm just very glad I didn't say a blessed word when you were dealing with a frustrating person. Go go gadget textwall.
Enjoy Sri Lanka, Tom.
#topicchange
Anyone started following the pre-season games for American Football yet?
Yes - not intently, but to at least start watching
Regarding American Football, nope, haven't watched any yet.

Mostly at this point is is just to see some rookies that might pan out and others that you'll never see again.

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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 3

GilaMonster (8/14/2012)
Love the story snippet.
#declare TopicChange
New article over at simple talk - SQL Server howlers. Partitioning, indexing, hints and server settings. https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/gail-shaws-sql-server-howlers/
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After reading this, especially the section on "Poor Index Design," I sent the link on to our developers here...

Big thanks to Gail!

:w00t:

Jason

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 4

L' Eomot Inversé (8/14/2012)
Off to Sri Lanka tomorrow, to attend eldest son's wedding. The evil child has insisted I be kilted for the event, and I can no longer get into my lightweight kilt (that kit hasn't matched my middle-age spread) so I will be in a heavyweight kilt in the tropics - but apart from that the trip should be fun, at least weather will probably be better than UK.
Not taking laptop with me, on pain of severe ill-treatment by wife, so I will be completely starved of SQLServerCentral for the duration (so that makes two members of the family inflicting pain on me on this trip; all I need now is for the other two sons to join in). Should be online again and recovering from this deprivation on 30 Sep.

Safe travels, and congrats.

Send us a picture 🙂

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 5

For the Rhode Island SQLSat, how about we all wear kilts?

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
Learn Extended Events

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 6

SQLRNNR (8/15/2012)
For the Rhode Island SQLSat, how about we all wear kilts?

Is that for speakers, attendees, or all?

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

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 7

WayneS (8/15/2012)
SQLRNNR (8/15/2012)
For the Rhode Island SQLSat, how about we all wear kilts?
Is that for speakers, attendees, or all?

Speakers - definitely.

Attendees would be good too!!

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
Learn Extended Events

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 8

SQLRNNR (8/15/2012)
WayneS (8/15/2012)
SQLRNNR (8/15/2012)
For the Rhode Island SQLSat, how about we all wear kilts?
Is that for speakers, attendees, or all?
Speakers - definitely.
Attendees would be good too!!

I'll try. I might be going straight there from a red-eye, flying out to LA for three days right before the event. But, in general, I'm in favor.

"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:
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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 9

It isn't the questions that are getting worse, nor is it the answers.

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 10

Let's create a user, say abc, in database xyx and map it to the login IDTENT. Grant it some rights in xyz. Now let's create a login named, oh say abc. Now let's log in as abc and see if it can do what we want in database xyz based on the rights we granted to the user abc.

AAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 11

WayneS (8/15/2012)
SQLRNNR (8/15/2012)
For the Rhode Island SQLSat, how about we all wear kilts?
Is that for speakers, attendees, or all?

If it were a prerequisite for speaking, I'd still wear jeans. 😉

--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)

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 12

Jeff Moden (8/15/2012)
WayneS (8/15/2012)
SQLRNNR (8/15/2012)
For the Rhode Island SQLSat, how about we all wear kilts?
Is that for speakers, attendees, or all?
If it were a prerequisite for speaking, I'd still wear jeans. 😉

Under or over the kilt?? :w00t:

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 13

Lynn Pettis

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August 15, 2012 at 3:33 pm

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Edit: Double posted. Deleted the content.

Dwain Camps SSC Guru Points: 86948 More actions · Answer 14

Lynn Pettis (8/15/2012)
Jeff Moden (8/15/2012)
WayneS (8/15/2012)
SQLRNNR (8/15/2012)
For the Rhode Island SQLSat, how about we all wear kilts?
Is that for speakers, attendees, or all?
If it were a prerequisite for speaking, I'd still wear jeans. 😉
Under or over the kilt?? :w00t:

Never, ever ask what's under a kilt.

My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]
My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

My advice:
INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 15

Again, it isn't the questions nor the answers that are getting worse, it is the people asking the questions.

I swear (especially when behind the wheel of a car) that the newer people coming to this site just don't know how to think about their problems. Sometimes I feel like many of us are spoon feeding these people and they just don't get it.

I really do appreciate those few who actually appreciate what we do here and actually so so. They are too few and too far apart.