Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Brandie Tarvin (6/20/2013)


    I need some advice, please.

    One of my thread questions has a poster on it who spent all day yesterday on Twitter telling me my problem is impossible (literally, he said that). He refuses to believe I have a problem because he can't reproduce it and I can't exactly let him see my systems.

    So he found the thread I posted here and has been contributing, or trying to contribute, without actually helping. I managed to ignore his first post, but his second post made an absolute judgement on something that he can't possible know is 100% true for everyone. So I posted a brief rebuttal and now he's responded.

    The problem is if I read his response, I might do an angry rant kind of post and turn into one of Those OPs, which I'm trying not to do. On the other hand, if I ignore a thread I started, I might never see the other responses which might actually be helpful.

    How should I handle this? I don't want a guy who doesn't even believe I have an issue trying to "help me" resolve it by telling me I don't have an issue.

    I think I've been following that thread and know which posts you're talking about. In the absence of a feature that would block or hide posts from a particular person, the only suggestion I have is to just ignore those "nuh-uh!"/"yuh-huh!" posts. People who just want to argue go away pretty quickly once they realize that they can't carry on an argument by themselves. When you get the notification e-mail that says he's posted a reply to that thread, just delete it. As hard as it may be to resist that urge to engage, choosing not to will save you a lot of grief.

    Jason Wolfkill

  • wolfkillj (6/20/2013)


    ...In the absence of a feature that would block or hide posts from a particular person, the only suggestion I have is to just ignore those "nuh-uh!"/"yuh-huh!" posts. People who just want to argue go away pretty quickly once they realize that they can't carry on an argument by themselves.

    +1

  • Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/20/2013)


    wolfkillj (6/20/2013)


    ...In the absence of a feature that would block or hide posts from a particular person, the only suggestion I have is to just ignore those "nuh-uh!"/"yuh-huh!" posts. People who just want to argue go away pretty quickly once they realize that they can't carry on an argument by themselves.

    +1

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  • jcrawf02 (6/20/2013)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/20/2013)


    wolfkillj (6/20/2013)


    ...In the absence of a feature that would block or hide posts from a particular person, the only suggestion I have is to just ignore those "nuh-uh!"/"yuh-huh!" posts. People who just want to argue go away pretty quickly once they realize that they can't carry on an argument by themselves.

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    Snicker. That was good.

    +1 the -1

  • jcrawf02 (6/20/2013)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/20/2013)


    wolfkillj (6/20/2013)


    ...In the absence of a feature that would block or hide posts from a particular person, the only suggestion I have is to just ignore those "nuh-uh!"/"yuh-huh!" posts. People who just want to argue go away pretty quickly once they realize that they can't carry on an argument by themselves.

    +1

    -1

    I see what you did there.

    Jason Wolfkill

  • wolfkillj (6/20/2013)


    jcrawf02 (6/20/2013)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/20/2013)


    wolfkillj (6/20/2013)


    ...In the absence of a feature that would block or hide posts from a particular person, the only suggestion I have is to just ignore those "nuh-uh!"/"yuh-huh!" posts. People who just want to argue go away pretty quickly once they realize that they can't carry on an argument by themselves.

    +1

    -1

    I see what you did there.

    What was it you said, Wolf?

    Walk away. Put down that database-erasing magnet and just walk away.

    @=)

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  • Interesting question.

    Anyone?

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • Brandie Tarvin (6/20/2013)


    So this morning I've been frantically searching the internet on articles to help clarify a problem I'm experiencing, and what do I see?

    Gail Shaw's name all over the place.

    Hrm. In case I haven't said this enough: thank you, Gail. Your clear, concise and thoughtful answers from the past several years (some old articles here) just saved me a lot of heartache.

    Thank you.

    You're welcome.

    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
  • GilaMonster (6/22/2013)


    Brandie Tarvin (6/20/2013)


    So this morning I've been frantically searching the internet on articles to help clarify a problem I'm experiencing, and what do I see?

    Gail Shaw's name all over the place.

    Hrm. In case I haven't said this enough: thank you, Gail. Your clear, concise and thoughtful answers from the past several years (some old articles here) just saved me a lot of heartache.

    Thank you.

    You're welcome.

    Ladies, both--

    This is, IMNERHO, what this forum makes me proud of being a threadizen, even when I did not make any contribution in this case.

    My best to both of you, and I hope you have a great weekend.

  • I am on the plane to Atlanta. From there to Indianapolis where I will be at Camp Attebury for a week.

  • spaghettidba (6/21/2013)


    Interesting question.

    Anyone?

    Yep.

  • Lynn Pettis (6/23/2013)


    I am on the plane to Atlanta. From there to Indianapolis where I will be at Camp Attebury for a week.

    Best of luck man. Hope all goes well, check in with us once in awhile if you can and let us know how things are going.

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  • My thanks to Gail!

    With her clarifying a few things for me (such as SQLs usage of multiple transaction log files) I was able to run a compression, shrink, clustered index rebuild, non-clustered index compression and rebuild, with no problems!

    Set up an agent job to do this stuff, e-mail when done, and enjoyed my weekend!

    😎

  • You shrunk a database? How could you???

    :hehe:

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    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • Better database than kids.

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