Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 1

jcrawf02 (3/13/2014)
The Dixie Flatline (3/13/2014)
I looked but I couldn't find even one envelope, much less three. My boss called me in and told me I was fired, even though I tried to explain to him that I hadn't finished backing up the Z drive yet. :w00t: So now, I am unjustly looking for work. If any of you know of any high-paying jobs for someone with SQL expertise, please let me know. Also I may be asking for help with some interview questions. I invite you all to join me on LinkedIn and give me personal references. Thanks again for all your help.
Do any of you guys have random people endorse you for skills, that you know they have no idea if you can do? I mean, I've never worked with Jeff, but endorsed him for T-SQL because, well, he's worked with me, ifyahnowhaddimean. But I have a guy who only knows me from high school and college, when I was a jazz trombonist, endorsing me for BI and Data Warehousing and HIPAA, when all he really knows is that I play a mean sackbut...

I know what you mean. I have a number of people that have done pretty much the exact same thing...except was a jazz trumpet player.

Even my mother (who is an excellent network connection because of her profession) endorsed me for sql server but she admits she doesn't really know what that means.

The worst is that I have a number of people who have endorsed me for SSRS. Not sure how that one even got on my list because I don't know much more about it than how to spell it. I have had some recruiters who don't know me try to hit me up for jobs because of my solid SSRS background.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004354 More actions · Answer 2

Wow! I just looked at the submitted session list for SQL Saturday 292 here in Detroit. The "Call for Speakers" closes on 3/18 (just 5 days from now) and I've never seen such a paltry list. There's only 24 sessions that have been submitted and only 13 speakers submitted.

Can we get a little help here? :crying:

--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)

Jason Wolfkill SSCrazy Eights Points: 9832 More actions · Answer 3

jcrawf02 (3/13/2014)
The Dixie Flatline (3/13/2014)
I looked but I couldn't find even one envelope, much less three. My boss called me in and told me I was fired, even though I tried to explain to him that I hadn't finished backing up the Z drive yet. :w00t: So now, I am unjustly looking for work. If any of you know of any high-paying jobs for someone with SQL expertise, please let me know. Also I may be asking for help with some interview questions. I invite you all to join me on LinkedIn and give me personal references. Thanks again for all your help.
Do any of you guys have random people endorse you for skills, that you know they have no idea if you can do? I mean, I've never worked with Jeff, but endorsed him for T-SQL because, well, he's worked with me, ifyahnowhaddimean. But I have a guy who only knows me from high school and college, when I was a jazz trombonist, endorsing me for BI and Data Warehousing and HIPAA, when all he really knows is that I play a mean sackbut...

Heh heh heh . . . he said "sackbut" . . . huh huh.

Jason Wolfkill

andrew gothard SSChampion Points: 12314 More actions · Answer 4

C: drive goes to the Cloud, which can take longer.
Did the previous DBA leave you some envelopes?

Missed that earlier, + several internets :hehe: