Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Lowell (3/28/2013)


    BrainDonor (3/28/2013)


    Lynn Pettis (3/27/2013)


    What to make of this?

    May not be what I was thinking. Good.

    "I'm a DBA, it turns out"

    How do you suddenly discover that you're a DBA?

    it's like puberty. you feel weird for a while, then all of the sudden you want to JOIN everything together. it's an instinct.

    :w00t::hehe:

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    How best to post your question[/url]
    How to post performance problems[/url]
    Tally Table:What it is and how it replaces a loop[/url]

    "stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."

  • So I'm reading up on column level encryption and msdn says Simple = X steps, With authenticator = Y steps.

    Microsoft technet says Simple = Y steps, authenticator = X steps.

    I think technet has the right code with the right description.

    And nowhere does anyone define what the "authenticator" is or why you might want to use it.

    Microsoft needs more editors.

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    What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
    You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams

  • Stefan Krzywicki (3/28/2013)


    So I'm reading up on column level encryption and msdn says Simple = X steps, With authenticator = Y steps.

    Microsoft technet says Simple = Y steps, authenticator = X steps.

    I think technet has the right code with the right description.

    And nowhere does anyone define what the "authenticator" is or why you might want to use it.

    Microsoft needs more editors.

    +1

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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  • Welcome to Books Online. I personally love the sections that are completely, blatantly wrong.

    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
  • Lowell (3/28/2013)


    BrainDonor (3/28/2013)


    Lynn Pettis (3/27/2013)


    What to make of this?

    May not be what I was thinking. Good.

    "I'm a DBA, it turns out"

    How do you suddenly discover that you're a DBA?

    it's like puberty. you feel weird for a while, then all of the sudden you want to JOIN everything together. it's an instinct.

    :hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe:

    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

  • SQLRNNR (3/28/2013)


    Lowell (3/28/2013)


    BrainDonor (3/28/2013)


    Lynn Pettis (3/27/2013)


    What to make of this?

    May not be what I was thinking. Good.

    "I'm a DBA, it turns out"

    How do you suddenly discover that you're a DBA?

    it's like puberty. you feel weird for a while, then all of the sudden you want to JOIN everything together. it's an instinct.

    :hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe:

    I'll be honest, at first it felt like he was trying to go around the DBA to get something he was not necessarily allowed to have. That was why I started pushing back a bit.

  • BrainDonor (3/28/2013)


    Lynn Pettis (3/27/2013)


    What to make of this?

    May not be what I was thinking. Good.

    "I'm a DBA, it turns out"

    How do you suddenly discover that you're a DBA?

    Don't most DBAs do that? Surely teh majority of DBAs are accidental DBAs?

    Tom

  • L' Eomot Inversé (3/28/2013)


    BrainDonor (3/28/2013)


    Lynn Pettis (3/27/2013)


    What to make of this?

    May not be what I was thinking. Good.

    "I'm a DBA, it turns out"

    How do you suddenly discover that you're a DBA?

    Don't most DBAs do that? Surely teh majority of DBAs are accidental DBAs?

    No, not all.

  • GilaMonster (3/28/2013)


    Welcome to Books Online. I personally love the sections that are completely, blatantly wrong.

    I prefer the sections that mix wrong and right, especially the ones that directly contradict themselves. They are much more amusing.

    What frustrates me is that MS rarely correct them, even when the errors are pointed out. That, and that community content is sometimes worse than the original.

    Tom

  • Lynn Pettis (3/28/2013)


    L' Eomot Inversé (3/28/2013)


    BrainDonor (3/28/2013)


    Lynn Pettis (3/27/2013)


    What to make of this?

    May not be what I was thinking. Good.

    "I'm a DBA, it turns out"

    How do you suddenly discover that you're a DBA?

    Don't most DBAs do that? Surely teh majority of DBAs are accidental DBAs?

    No, not all.

    Of course not all. Only somewhere between 70% and 99.5%. 😉

    Tom

  • L' Eomot Inversé (3/28/2013)


    GilaMonster (3/28/2013)


    Welcome to Books Online. I personally love the sections that are completely, blatantly wrong.

    I prefer the sections that mix wrong and right, especially the ones that directly contradict themselves. They are much more amusing.

    What frustrates me is that MS rarely correct them, even when the errors are pointed out. That, and that community content is sometimes worse than the original.

    Or intentionally leaves it as a "won't fix" much as the case with many Connect items.

    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

  • Anyone thinking of going to see the popcorn movie that is "GIJoe: Retaliation"?

    I'm debating between waiting until tomorrow, or going to see it tonight on my own, then tomorrow with the wife...

    Yes, I'm a nut.

    Last weekend, we did "Olympus has fallen" then "The Croods" the next day...

  • jasona.work (3/28/2013)


    Anyone thinking of going to see the popcorn movie that is "GIJoe: Retaliation"?

    I'm debating between waiting until tomorrow, or going to see it tonight on my own, then tomorrow with the wife...

    Yes, I'm a nut.

    Last weekend, we did "Olympus has fallen" then "The Croods" the next day...

    Yes - will be watching GI JOE. Wife will be watching too. Not sure on dates yet tho

    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

  • SQLRNNR (3/28/2013)


    jasona.work (3/28/2013)


    Anyone thinking of going to see the popcorn movie that is "GIJoe: Retaliation"?

    I'm debating between waiting until tomorrow, or going to see it tonight on my own, then tomorrow with the wife...

    Yes, I'm a nut.

    Last weekend, we did "Olympus has fallen" then "The Croods" the next day...

    Yes - will be watching GI JOE. Wife will be watching too. Not sure on dates yet tho

    I will be seeing it as well, but with my daughter. Something about Channing Tatum if I remember.

  • Lynn Pettis (3/28/2013)


    SQLRNNR (3/28/2013)


    jasona.work (3/28/2013)


    Anyone thinking of going to see the popcorn movie that is "GIJoe: Retaliation"?

    I'm debating between waiting until tomorrow, or going to see it tonight on my own, then tomorrow with the wife...

    Yes, I'm a nut.

    Last weekend, we did "Olympus has fallen" then "The Croods" the next day...

    Yes - will be watching GI JOE. Wife will be watching too. Not sure on dates yet tho

    I will be seeing it as well, but with my daughter. Something about Channing Tatum if I remember.

    Well he is the reason for the huge delays in the movie release - something about the girls IIRC.

    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

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