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Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • January 3, 2015 at 10:21 am

    #1767567

    It's only the 3rd of the year and I believe we already have a candidate for the year's most vague question.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1648047-2799-1.aspx

    Anyone have even a clue as to what this fellow means? I was thinking some poor-man's form of replication to contain the content from multiple remote servers but that's just my imagination at work.

    --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.

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  • January 3, 2015 at 6:34 pm

    #1767584

    Congratulations, Gianluca. Very well done. And no, it didn't sound like you were bragging.

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  • January 3, 2015 at 6:36 pm

    #1767585

    Jeff Moden (1/3/2015)

    It's only the 3rd of the year and I believe we already have a candidate for the year's most vague question.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1648047-2799-1.aspx

    Anyone have even a clue as to what this fellow means? I was thinking some poor-man's form of replication to contain the content from multiple remote servers but that's just my imagination at work.

    From the subject, he wants to create a table of some sort, but the body of the post is definitely in the running for the most vague I've seen.

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  • January 3, 2015 at 7:22 pm

    #1767588

    Jeff Moden (1/3/2015)

    It's only the 3rd of the year and I believe we already have a candidate for the year's most vague question.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1648047-2799-1.aspx

    Anyone have even a clue as to what this fellow means? I was thinking some poor-man's form of replication to contain the content from multiple remote servers but that's just my imagination at work.

    Glad you quoted the original post since it has been edited and now contains nothing more than "a".

    Of course, if you review his previous posts, all he wants is for others to do his work.

  • January 3, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    #1767592

    ... Mark one off, 55 days on the calendar to go. 55 days on the calendar to go, 55 days to go, ...

  • January 4, 2015 at 4:00 am

    #1767601

    Lynn Pettis (1/3/2015)

    Jeff Moden (1/3/2015)

    It's only the 3rd of the year and I believe we already have a candidate for the year's most vague question.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1648047-2799-1.aspx

    Anyone have even a clue as to what this fellow means? I was thinking some poor-man's form of replication to contain the content from multiple remote servers but that's just my imagination at work.

    Glad you quoted the original post since it has been edited and now contains nothing more than "a".

    Of course, if you review his previous posts, all he wants is for others to do his work.

    Good googly moogly, that one is extremely vague.

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  • January 4, 2015 at 10:54 am

    #1767621

    Lynn Pettis (1/3/2015)

    Jeff Moden (1/3/2015)

    It's only the 3rd of the year and I believe we already have a candidate for the year's most vague question.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1648047-2799-1.aspx

    Anyone have even a clue as to what this fellow means? I was thinking some poor-man's form of replication to contain the content from multiple remote servers but that's just my imagination at work.

    Glad you quoted the original post since it has been edited and now contains nothing more than "a".

    Of course, if you review his previous posts, all he wants is for others to do his work.

    I've taken to quoting the original post in many cases simply because too many people delete the original post even if they get a reasonable answer.

    --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)

  • January 4, 2015 at 8:49 pm

    #1767657

    ... Mark one off, 54 days on the calendar to go. 54 days on the calendar to go, 54 days to go, ...

  • January 4, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    #1767658

    Deleting posts (unless completely absurd) seems odd to me. To me, it's like tearing pages out of a knowledge repository. Nothing quite like remembering an old post that could help, only to find it's been deleted!

  • January 5, 2015 at 1:18 am

    #1767678

    Jeff Moden (1/4/2015)

    I've taken to quoting the original post in many cases simply because too many people delete the original post even if they get a reasonable answer.

    I've had cases where I've corrected a statement someone made, then they went back and edited the incorrect statement in their post so that it looks like I'm talking nonsense or can't read.

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  • January 5, 2015 at 1:23 am

    #1767679

    GilaMonster (1/5/2015)

    Jeff Moden (1/4/2015)

    I've taken to quoting the original post in many cases simply because too many people delete the original post even if they get a reasonable answer.

    I've had cases where I've corrected a statement someone made, then they went back and edited the incorrect statement in their post so that it looks like I'm talking nonsense or can't read.

    It's a good thing you can see when someone has edited a post. Helps a bit in such cases.

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  • January 5, 2015 at 4:21 pm

    #1767903

    Grant Fritchey (1/4/2015)

    Lynn Pettis (1/3/2015)

    Jeff Moden (1/3/2015)

    It's only the 3rd of the year and I believe we already have a candidate for the year's most vague question.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1648047-2799-1.aspx

    Anyone have even a clue as to what this fellow means? I was thinking some poor-man's form of replication to contain the content from multiple remote servers but that's just my imagination at work.

    Glad you quoted the original post since it has been edited and now contains nothing more than "a".

    Of course, if you review his previous posts, all he wants is for others to do his work.

    Good googly moogly, that one is extremely vague.

    How about an equally vague answer? "With a DDL statement."

    Wayne
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  • January 5, 2015 at 6:12 pm

    #1767939

    WayneS (1/5/2015)

    Grant Fritchey (1/4/2015)

    Lynn Pettis (1/3/2015)

    Jeff Moden (1/3/2015)

    It's only the 3rd of the year and I believe we already have a candidate for the year's most vague question.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1648047-2799-1.aspx

    Anyone have even a clue as to what this fellow means? I was thinking some poor-man's form of replication to contain the content from multiple remote servers but that's just my imagination at work.

    Glad you quoted the original post since it has been edited and now contains nothing more than "a".

    Of course, if you review his previous posts, all he wants is for others to do his work.

    Good googly moogly, that one is extremely vague.

    How about an equally vague answer? "With a DDL statement."

    That was probably the best possible answer.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • January 5, 2015 at 6:37 pm

    #1767942

    ... Mark one off, 53 days on the calendar to go. 53 days on the calendar to go, 53 days to go, ...

  • January 6, 2015 at 12:16 am

    #1767968

    How annoying, a new QotD spammer. I send him a private message telling him nobody is waiting for email notifications for old questions.

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