Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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mazzz SSCertifiable Points: 6139 More actions · Answer 1

Steve Jones - Editor (6/9/2009)
LOL, how did I typo that? Keys are on different sides of the keyboard, different hands, I must have been tired.
The majority of my thread notifications were from this thread last night, and I posted as I was falling asleep, apparently.
Glad it's only 10 of you that will likely see that one :w00t:

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 2

Alvin Ramard (6/9/2009)
Lynn Pettis (6/9/2009)
Okay, I must be in pissy mood today and I have NO idea why. I just lmgtfy twice in the same thread...
I don't think that's a sign of a pissy mood.
I think it needed to be done.

Still, I could have been more "saintly" and written something more like Scott posted after my second lmgtfy post.

LutzM SSC Guru Points: 107049 More actions · Answer 3

Regarding the "Smurf" posts:

Did anybody ever figured out, what color a smurf turns into if he gets strangled?

(Just had to warm up that old joke...) 😀

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 4

Lynn Pettis (6/9/2009)
Okay, I must be in pissy mood today and I have NO idea why. I just lmgtfy twice in the same thread...

Which tread? I must bear witness to this rarity. 😀

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 5

Jeff Moden (6/9/2009)
Lynn Pettis (6/9/2009)
Okay, I must be in pissy mood today and I have NO idea why. I just lmgtfy twice in the same thread...
Which tread? I must bear witness to this rarity. 😀

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 6

I didn't think that was bad, a little short, but not bad.

Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 7

I think Lynn feels bad because he is doing something different this time. Instead of trying to explain the whole thing, he is just helping the OP to do the search.... :hehe:

-Roy

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 8

Trust me Lynn, there are many that would not have answered as politely as you did.

😎

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 9

Just seems a bit out of my usual SSC character. I'm usually the one trying to everything I can to help people and then I lmgtfy twice in one thread?? The first one, I feel, wasn't as blantant as the second one; but still.

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

Gee Barry

RBarryYoung (6/9/2009) Big-O notation categorizes an algorithm's complexity in terms of the dominant term (without any constant factors) of its execution run-time as a function of the length of its input data("N"), as N approaches infinity.

I had to read that a couple times to get the meaning. :hehe:

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 11

Lynn Pettis (6/9/2009)
Just seems a bit out of my usual SSC character. I'm usually the one trying to everything I can to help people and then I lmgtfy twice in one thread?? The first one, I feel, wasn't as blantant as the second one; but still.

Well, then, no roleplay exp for you!

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 12

He is obviously new to SQL Server and really needs to start doing some research instead of asking such broad based questions like this one.

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 13

GSquared (6/9/2009)
Lynn Pettis (6/9/2009)
Just seems a bit out of my usual SSC character. I'm usually the one trying to everything I can to help people and then I lmgtfy twice in one thread?? The first one, I feel, wasn't as blantant as the second one; but still.
Well, then, no roleplay exp for you!

Ah, shucks. Well, not everyone can stay in character all the time. I've had a paladin fall, and it was actually fun.

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 14

Lynn Pettis (6/9/2009)
He is obviously new to SQL Server and really needs to start doing some research instead of asking such broad based questions like this one.

But then again, I could be wrong...

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 15

Lynn Pettis (6/9/2009)
Lynn Pettis (6/9/2009)
He is obviously new to SQL Server and really needs to start doing some research instead of asking such broad based questions like this one.
But then again, I could be wrong...

I don't think you're wrong Lynn. Look at his 2 posts in that thread and it really sounds he lacks basic knowledge about what he's asking.

I might feel differently if he had mentioned SSL in the second post.

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