Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • dwain.c (4/19/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/19/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (4/19/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/19/2015)


    spaghettidba (4/19/2015)


    Has anyone seen the last comments for Friday's featured article? I'm sorry for provoking such a bad reaction, I didn't mean to do that.

    Did I say something wrong? Was my comment too harsh?

    Nothing wrong with your comment, in fact I was about to post almost exactly the same comment when I saw yours.

    😎

    I looked but couldn't find the post. Link?

    It's here.

    😎

    I saw it but didn't notice it was a republish. Didn't comment though because I expected the author wouldn't like what I had to say. I like what Jeff has added to the thread about the proof being in the performance test.

    You can find the asbestos underwear right next to the fish holding hands Luis found on my ecommerce web site.


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

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  • SQLRNNR (4/19/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/19/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (4/19/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/19/2015)


    spaghettidba (4/19/2015)


    Has anyone seen the last comments for Friday's featured article? I'm sorry for provoking such a bad reaction, I didn't mean to do that.

    Did I say something wrong? Was my comment too harsh?

    Nothing wrong with your comment, in fact I was about to post almost exactly the same comment when I saw yours.

    😎

    I looked but couldn't find the post. Link?

    It's here.

    😎

    Yeah, nothing wrong with the comments there.

    I don't think the comments were out of line. It was an opinion stated about the article. It was't attacking the person. But, if there was a lot of negative stuff posted before, I can see how you mget defensive. I've been that way once or twice.

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  • Grant Fritchey (4/20/2015)


    SQLRNNR (4/19/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/19/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (4/19/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/19/2015)


    spaghettidba (4/19/2015)


    Has anyone seen the last comments for Friday's featured article? I'm sorry for provoking such a bad reaction, I didn't mean to do that.

    Did I say something wrong? Was my comment too harsh?

    Nothing wrong with your comment, in fact I was about to post almost exactly the same comment when I saw yours.

    😎

    I looked but couldn't find the post. Link?

    It's here.

    😎

    Yeah, nothing wrong with the comments there.

    I don't think the comments were out of line. It was an opinion stated about the article. It was't attacking the person. But, if there was a lot of negative stuff posted before, I can see how you mget defensive. I've been that way once or twice.

    I think the comments were appropriate. The discussion was also correct - let the code do the walking.

  • Grant Fritchey (4/20/2015)


    SQLRNNR (4/19/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/19/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (4/19/2015)


    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/19/2015)


    spaghettidba (4/19/2015)


    Has anyone seen the last comments for Friday's featured article? I'm sorry for provoking such a bad reaction, I didn't mean to do that.

    Did I say something wrong? Was my comment too harsh?

    Nothing wrong with your comment, in fact I was about to post almost exactly the same comment when I saw yours.

    😎

    I looked but couldn't find the post. Link?

    It's here.

    😎

    Yeah, nothing wrong with the comments there.

    I don't think the comments were out of line. It was an opinion stated about the article. It was't attacking the person. But, if there was a lot of negative stuff posted before, I can see how you mget defensive. I've been that way once or twice.

    I read the comments from the first go around. They were article focused as well and along the same lines (e.g. dynamic would be a better solution). I didn't think they were vicious.

    In the end, I think the approach of demo'ing via code is good.

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  • I'm off the VMWare for the week, so get ready for a bunch of stuff on why virtualization is the best thing ever and all of you are doing it wrong with physical hosts 😉

  • ACK! NO! Not VMware!!!!

    (I really need to install that on one of my boxes.)

    Also, tales from the dark side. We have someone setting up a demo for a thing. He asked for my help with a data scrub. Which was well and good until he mentioned the word "production."

    Fortunately, he's a nice guy and totally understands my not-quite-freak-out. "We're fine with scrubbing QA if we can get access to it," he says. Well, DUH. That's an easy security decision to make. Right?

    Brandie wants to keep her job. Will scrub data in QA and give QA access for demo, because otherwise is madness. MADNESS I SAY! :w00t:

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  • Jeff Moden (4/19/2015)


    Excellent. And help that young fellow learn how to wear asbestos underwear when everyone is trying to burn him at the stake.

    You try to burn him and give him cancer? 😀

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  • Koen Verbeeck (4/21/2015)


    Jeff Moden (4/19/2015)


    Excellent. And help that young fellow learn how to wear asbestos underwear when everyone is trying to burn him at the stake.

    You try to burn him and give him cancer? 😀

    🙂 Go the whole hog and use leaded petrol for ignition!

  • Finally made the dive into using TVPs. Pretty neat stuff actually.

  • Interesting. I get notifications on old threads when new posts are added but I'm not getting any on the new threads I have posted on. Anyone else having this issue?

  • Lynn Pettis (4/23/2015)


    Finally made the dive into using TVPs. Pretty neat stuff actually.

    They are pretty slick. I was working on an article to explain how to use them both from the database and developer side to demonstrate how super easy they can be to use. Maybe I will have to resurrect this idea and get it finished.

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  • Sean Lange (4/23/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (4/23/2015)


    Finally made the dive into using TVPs. Pretty neat stuff actually.

    They are pretty slick. I was working on an article to explain how to use them both from the database and developer side to demonstrate how super easy they can be to use. Maybe I will have to resurrect this idea and get it finished.

    That would be a very helpful article. From a database side it seems easy. Using them from a developer side where you may be using a .NET language, or Java, or Cold Fusion to access a database is where I would have no clue.

  • What is the world coming to, this one posted the skype but forgot the Credit Card Number 😀

    😎

  • <Ooops!>Wrong forum</Ooops!>


    My mantra: No loops! No CURSORs! No RBAR! Hoo-uh![/I]

    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    My advice:
    INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
    The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.

    Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?[/url]
    Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some![/url]
    Learn to understand recursive CTEs by example.[/url]
    [url url=http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/St

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