Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Sean Lange (8/7/2014)


    SQLRNNR (8/7/2014)


    Jack Corbett (8/7/2014)


    Lynn Pettis (8/7/2014)


    SQLRNNR (8/7/2014)


    Lynn Pettis (8/7/2014)


    Now this just pissed me off:

    ********* (8/7/2014)


    thanks lynn, for being forthcoming (finally!)

    Leaving out the name of the perp.

    Haha - too easy to find. :crazy:

    At least I'm being civil and not responding directly. Not worth getting into an argument with this person.

    I'm not sure how your first answer wasn't forthcoming enough. It should have been marked as the answer. In fact, it was probably a perfect answer for StackOverflow 😀 (yes, I've read all the posts in The Thread)

    I was wondering that same thing.

    My SSC sleuthing is failing me...I can't find it. :blush:

    d'oh

    Look at Lynn's previous comment about division.

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  • SQLRNNR (8/7/2014)


    Sean Lange (8/7/2014)


    SQLRNNR (8/7/2014)


    Jack Corbett (8/7/2014)


    Lynn Pettis (8/7/2014)


    SQLRNNR (8/7/2014)


    Lynn Pettis (8/7/2014)


    Now this just pissed me off:

    ********* (8/7/2014)


    thanks lynn, for being forthcoming (finally!)

    Leaving out the name of the perp.

    Haha - too easy to find. :crazy:

    At least I'm being civil and not responding directly. Not worth getting into an argument with this person.

    I'm not sure how your first answer wasn't forthcoming enough. It should have been marked as the answer. In fact, it was probably a perfect answer for StackOverflow 😀 (yes, I've read all the posts in The Thread)

    I was wondering that same thing.

    My SSC sleuthing is failing me...I can't find it. :blush:

    d'oh

    Look at Lynn's previous comment about division.

    Lynn, your answer IS correct and there's no argument to be made. Them being obstinate and snide, however, you can't fix. Put them in the same boat as WC.

  • SQLRNNR (8/7/2014)


    Sean Lange (8/7/2014)


    SQLRNNR (8/7/2014)


    Jack Corbett (8/7/2014)


    Lynn Pettis (8/7/2014)


    SQLRNNR (8/7/2014)


    Lynn Pettis (8/7/2014)


    Now this just pissed me off:

    ********* (8/7/2014)


    thanks lynn, for being forthcoming (finally!)

    Leaving out the name of the perp.

    Haha - too easy to find. :crazy:

    At least I'm being civil and not responding directly. Not worth getting into an argument with this person.

    I'm not sure how your first answer wasn't forthcoming enough. It should have been marked as the answer. In fact, it was probably a perfect answer for StackOverflow 😀 (yes, I've read all the posts in The Thread)

    I was wondering that same thing.

    My SSC sleuthing is failing me...I can't find it. :blush:

    d'oh

    Look at Lynn's previous comment about division.

    Oh good grief. I had looked at that thread and somehow missed that. It was the perfect answer here and SO. There just isn't a lot more you can say about it. Of course at SO it would have been flagged as a duplicate and downvoted because else asked the same thing about 4 years ago.

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  • I think I'm having an ESL problem. Can someone stick their head into this thread and see if I'm just not asking the right question or if they can rephrase it somehow?

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1600801-391-1.aspx


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  • Ed Wagner (8/7/2014)


    Put them in the same boat as WC.

    Speaking of... If you tried running a query against a table (a simple select) and if never returned, what would you consider first?

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  • GilaMonster (8/7/2014)


    Ed Wagner (8/7/2014)


    Put them in the same boat as WC.

    Speaking of... If you tried running a query against a table (a simple select) and if never returned, what would you consider first?

    The table never existed.:-D:-D

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  • GilaMonster (8/7/2014)


    Ed Wagner (8/7/2014)


    Put them in the same boat as WC.

    Speaking of... If you tried running a query against a table (a simple select) and if never returned, what would you consider first?

    Hung transaction in another spid, my SAN controller took a crap again and forgot to let SQL Server know, or I missed the where clause when I highlighted and F5'd so it's yanking back a few terabytes of data.


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  • GilaMonster (8/7/2014)


    Ed Wagner (8/7/2014)


    Put them in the same boat as WC.

    Speaking of... If you tried running a query against a table (a simple select) and if never returned, what would you consider first?

    Obviously the sql service is hung so just go to the server room and flip the switch on whole rack, just to be sure I got the power off for the server in question.

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  • Sean Lange (8/7/2014)


    GilaMonster (8/7/2014)


    Ed Wagner (8/7/2014)


    Put them in the same boat as WC.

    Speaking of... If you tried running a query against a table (a simple select) and if never returned, what would you consider first?

    Obviously the sql service is hung so just go to the server room and flip the switch on whole rack, just to be sure I got the power off for the server in question.

    what, you don't have the keys to the fuse box?

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  • jcrawf02 (8/7/2014)


    Sean Lange (8/7/2014)


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    Ed Wagner (8/7/2014)


    Put them in the same boat as WC.

    Speaking of... If you tried running a query against a table (a simple select) and if never returned, what would you consider first?

    Obviously the sql service is hung so just go to the server room and flip the switch on whole rack, just to be sure I got the power off for the server in question.

    what, you don't have the keys to the fuse box?

    Oddly enough...the server rooms are locked up pretty tight. However the main fuse boxes for the building are open to anybody who knows where they are. We are big production facility so I could literally turn off the entire production plant (~100 workers per shift) by simply flipping the switch. 😛

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  • Sean Lange (8/7/2014)


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    Sean Lange (8/7/2014)


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    Put them in the same boat as WC.

    Speaking of... If you tried running a query against a table (a simple select) and if never returned, what would you consider first?

    Obviously the sql service is hung so just go to the server room and flip the switch on whole rack, just to be sure I got the power off for the server in question.

    what, you don't have the keys to the fuse box?

    Oddly enough...the server rooms are locked up pretty tight. However the main fuse boxes for the building are open to anybody who knows where they are. We are big production facility so I could literally turn off the entire production plant (~100 workers per shift) by simply flipping the switch. 😛

    Sounds like somebody has had his fun on April Fools on a few occasions.

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  • SQLRNNR (8/7/2014)


    Sean Lange (8/7/2014)


    jcrawf02 (8/7/2014)


    Sean Lange (8/7/2014)


    GilaMonster (8/7/2014)


    Ed Wagner (8/7/2014)


    Put them in the same boat as WC.

    Speaking of... If you tried running a query against a table (a simple select) and if never returned, what would you consider first?

    Obviously the sql service is hung so just go to the server room and flip the switch on whole rack, just to be sure I got the power off for the server in question.

    what, you don't have the keys to the fuse box?

    Oddly enough...the server rooms are locked up pretty tight. However the main fuse boxes for the building are open to anybody who knows where they are. We are big production facility so I could literally turn off the entire production plant (~100 workers per shift) by simply flipping the switch. 😛

    Sounds like somebody has had his fun on April Fools on a few occasions.

    Nah. I don't balls that big. This isn't the kind of switch you could accidentally turn off. It is a large handle that would require doing this intentionally. Although I suppose I can do whatever on my last day. 🙂

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  • GilaMonster (8/7/2014)


    Ed Wagner (8/7/2014)


    Put them in the same boat as WC.

    Speaking of... If you tried running a query against a table (a simple select) and if never returned, what would you consider first?

    I would abort the query long before "never" arrived and look for my missing join that I forgot to include. Not finding that, I would consider a blocking process. I guess I'd make sure I can select 1 row from each table and that would tell me where to go next.

  • Ok, good, I'm not the only one who would think 'blocking' long before thinking 'let me post this impossible situation on the forums'

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  • GilaMonster (8/7/2014)


    Ok, good, I'm not the only one who would think 'blocking' long before thinking 'let me post this impossible situation on the forums'

    Oh blocking, yeah that must have been the problem :hehe::hehe:

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