June 20, 2013 at 1:33 pm
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
June 20, 2013 at 2:01 pm
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
June 20, 2013 at 2:44 pm
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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June 20, 2013 at 2:47 pm
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
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Snicker. That was good.
+1 the -1
June 20, 2013 at 3:20 pm
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
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I see what you did there.
Jason Wolfkill
June 21, 2013 at 4:15 am
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.
@=)
June 21, 2013 at 10:08 am
June 22, 2013 at 3:27 am
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
June 22, 2013 at 2:06 pm
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.
June 23, 2013 at 6:30 am
I am on the plane to Atlanta. From there to Indianapolis where I will be at Camp Attebury for a week.
June 23, 2013 at 9:00 am
spaghettidba (6/21/2013)
Interesting question.Anyone?
Yep.
Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
@SQL_Kiwi
June 23, 2013 at 10:29 pm
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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June 24, 2013 at 5:40 am
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!
😎
June 24, 2013 at 1:42 pm
You shrunk a database? How could you???
:hehe:
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
June 24, 2013 at 1:45 pm
Better database than kids.
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