Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004340 More actions · Answer 1

Jo Pattyn (8/29/2012)
How to inform developers that there are still slow/congested networks out there? About select * from remotesnailnetwork.matter.listed.particle finding one specific particle without a where clause. QoS?
*edit* Not an actual situation, just some brainstorming

Heh... how to inform them that it's getting worse thanks to the world wide love affair with XML.

--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)

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65142 More actions · Answer 2

Fal (9/3/2012)
Quick poll: how would you pronounce the word "Route"?
I'll explain why later, if I'm not too embarrassed. :blink:
Steve.

I am English so naturally /ru?t/

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

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 3

David Burrows (9/4/2012)
Fal (9/3/2012)
Quick poll: how would you pronounce the word "Route"?
I'll explain why later, if I'm not too embarrassed. :blink:
Steve.
I am English so naturally /ru?t/

Likewise - but how do you pronounce "router"?

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19254 More actions · Answer 4

ChrisM@Work (9/4/2012)
David Burrows (9/4/2012)
Fal (9/3/2012)
Quick poll: how would you pronounce the word "Route"?
I'll explain why later, if I'm not too embarrassed. :blink:
Steve.
I am English so naturally /ru?t/
Likewise - but how do you pronounce "router"?

If it is a person or thing that controls the route (direction for example) then it's 'root - er'.

If it is a tool for routing (furrowing, hollowing out etc) then it is 'rou-ter'.

A fabulous language - designed to confuse anyone not born to it - and most of those that are.

Steve Hall
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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 5

BrainDonor (9/4/2012)
ChrisM@Work (9/4/2012)
David Burrows (9/4/2012)
Fal (9/3/2012)
Quick poll: how would you pronounce the word "Route"?
I'll explain why later, if I'm not too embarrassed. :blink:
Steve.
I am English so naturally /ru?t/
Likewise - but how do you pronounce "router"?
If it is a person or thing that controls the route (direction for example) then it's 'root - er'.
...

Does that description include these?

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19254 More actions · Answer 6

ChrisM@Work (9/4/2012)
BrainDonor (9/4/2012)
ChrisM@Work (9/4/2012)
David Burrows (9/4/2012)
Fal (9/3/2012)
Quick poll: how would you pronounce the word "Route"?
I'll explain why later, if I'm not too embarrassed. :blink:
Steve.
I am English so naturally /ru?t/
Likewise - but how do you pronounce "router"?
If it is a person or thing that controls the route (direction for example) then it's 'root - er'.
...
Does that description include these?

Yes - a router (root-er). You wouldn't want to try carving into wood with one of those - that would be a router (rou-ter).

Steve Hall
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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 7

BrainDonor (9/4/2012)
ChrisM@Work (9/4/2012)
BrainDonor (9/4/2012)
ChrisM@Work (9/4/2012)
David Burrows (9/4/2012)
Fal (9/3/2012)
Quick poll: how would you pronounce the word "Route"?
I'll explain why later, if I'm not too embarrassed. :blink:
Steve.
I am English so naturally /ru?t/
Likewise - but how do you pronounce "router"?
If it is a person or thing that controls the route (direction for example) then it's 'root - er'.
...
Does that description include these?
Yes - a router (root-er). You wouldn't want to try carving into wood with one of those - that would be a router (rou-ter).

Heh and finally "routed", as in "the French were routed"?

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 8

David Burrows (9/4/2012)
Fal (9/3/2012)
Quick poll: how would you pronounce the word "Route"?
I'll explain why later, if I'm not too embarrassed. :blink:
Steve.
I am English so naturally /ru?t/

I'm Italian, so naturally /ru?t/

:hehe:

-- Gianluca Sartori

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65142 More actions · Answer 9

BrainDonor (9/4/2012)
ChrisM@Work (9/4/2012)
David Burrows (9/4/2012)
Fal (9/3/2012)
Quick poll: how would you pronounce the word "Route"?
I'll explain why later, if I'm not too embarrassed. :blink:
Steve.
I am English so naturally /ru?t/
Likewise - but how do you pronounce "router"?
If it is a person or thing that controls the route (direction for example) then it's 'root - er'.
If it is a tool for routing (furrowing, hollowing out etc) then it is 'rou-ter'.
A fabulous language - designed to confuse anyone not born to it - and most of those that are.

+1

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

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65142 More actions · Answer 10

ChrisM@Work (9/4/2012)
Heh and finally "routed", as in "the French were routed"?

And therefore the ones that caused the routing of the routed are routers (rou-ters) :w00t:

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

BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19254 More actions · Answer 11

Similair to the wood-carving device - rou-ted.

Steve Hall
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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 12

SQL Kiwi (9/3/2012)
Fal (9/3/2012)
Quick poll: how would you pronounce the word "Route"?
I try to avoid the word completely, using a synonym or rephrasing the whole statement. Pronouncing it 'rowt' has never seemed natural to me (despite the number of American shows we get) though it is undoubtedly safer than 'root'.

Maybe I've lived a sheltered life, but I've never heard the word "root" used in any of the "unsafe" senses listed in the urban dictionary, and if it were genuinely in use with any such meanings in Britain (as claimed by the UD) I certainly would have heard it. Of course I haven't a clue about the version of the language used in Australia or New Zealand.

Anyway, the universal British pronunciatin of "route" (except when it's a variant spelling of "rout") is same as that of "root", but when it's a variant spelling of "rout" it's naturally pronounced like "rout" (rowt). Some (but by no means all) of my American acquaintances pronounce it 'rowt', and it always amuses me to hear the device that directs packets on my network interface called "a person or thing which overwhelmilgly defeats an armed force and harries it in retreat".

Tom

BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19254 More actions · Answer 13

I actually have come across the Urban Dictionary's usage of the word in the UK, but only once and many years ago. So calling it 'common usage' would be exaggerating it somewhat.

Steve Hall
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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173061 More actions · Answer 14

Here's a new take on both plagarism and spam.

People have been posting comments to my blog that sound like legitimate comments, but are attached to the wrong posts (a SQL comment attached to a writing blog post, for example). I weeded out the most obvious spam then put the first few sentences of the "almost" comments into a search engine just to see if they existed elsewhere.

What I found is spam accounts copying (wholesale) existing comments on other people's websites and blogs, then pasting them into my blog's comments under a different name. What's worse is every one of those plagarized comments had weblinks on the gravatars that looked hinky (and are probably website hijacks or something similar).

The best example is this page here[/url]. Someone copied Brent Ozar's comment and posted it as a comment to my blog post on the Colorado Wildfires with the name of Luana.

@sigh. I wonder how many people fall for this sort of thing.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 15

BrainDonor (9/4/2012)
ChrisM@Work (9/4/2012)
David Burrows (9/4/2012)
Fal (9/3/2012)
Quick poll: how would you pronounce the word "Route"?
I'll explain why later, if I'm not too embarrassed. :blink:
Steve.
I am English so naturally /ru?t/
Likewise - but how do you pronounce "router"?
If it is a person or thing that controls the route (direction for example) then it's 'root - er'.
If it is a tool for routing (furrowing, hollowing out etc) then it is 'rou-ter'.
A fabulous language - designed to confuse anyone not born to it - and most of those that are.

Yes, it's so bad that some online dictionaries list meanings for "rout" that are actually meanings of "root", and in the US "rout" as an alternative spelling of "route" seems to be pretty common usage.

I wouldn't use "fabulous" to describe it though, because it's real (so not fabulous in the literal sense) and pretty horrible (so not fabulous in the figurative sense either).

It's not the lack of standardisation that irritates me (even languages with official standards bodies are no more standardised, and the various forms of English are a great source of comedy), nor even the weird idioms (other languages are just as weird in that respect) but the spelling system (no other language which uses an alphabet is that bad, although French comes close) and the bizarre syntax. And I sometimes wonder whether any other languages have hordes of imaginary rules that are in fact utter nonsense but have hordes of idiots wanting to enforce them(like infinitives are not splittable, or clauses can't end with a preposition).

Tom