Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 1

jasona.work - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 6:56 AM
What does it say that, while I think I might know what the problem is, and I've already ginned up a solution and tested it, I'm not willing to post it until the OP answers a question?
And, as Lynn pointed out, the "schema / sample" is about as useful to trying to solve the issue as a pair of lead shoes for a drowning person...
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1963130.aspx
It's really a very easy problem, *IF* my supposition of their *REAL* data is correct.
(Which, I realize, their create table in the useless sample data, does seem to indicate I *AM* right.)

Sometimes one just wonders on "where shall I start?"
😎

On that particular problem, there are contradictions and missing information, cannot spend time on speculations so ....

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736255 More actions · Answer 2

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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May 30, 2018 at 9:09 am

#1992329

Anyone in Nashville this week for Music City Tech?

Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99130 More actions · Answer 3

They're back!

AT least reporting 3 got rid of it again, but I hope none of you are still subscribed to the forum they filled up.

Thom~

Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk

frederico_fonseca SSCoach Points: 16155 More actions · Answer 4

getting ride of them quite fast - just open one of them, report it 3 times (the same one) and puff all from that user are gone in the wind

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 5

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:09 AM
Anyone in Nashville this week for Music City Tech?

If only I knew about this before I could have gone. It's interesting and a relatively short drive from here.

Luis C.
General Disclaimer:
Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help: Option 1 / Option 2

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 6

frederico_fonseca - Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:00 AM
getting ride of them quite fast - just open one of them, report it 3 times (the same one) and puff all from that user are gone in the wind

Yep... know that trick.

Shifting gears, and for the reason above, I don't want to be the only one to flag the following post as "highly inappropriate". We only need two more and POOF! 😉
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1964666.aspx

--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)

Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99130 More actions · Answer 7

Jeff Moden - Thursday, May 31, 2018 12:13 PM
frederico_fonseca - Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:00 AM
getting ride of them quite fast - just open one of them, report it 3 times (the same one) and puff all from that user are gone in the wind
Yep... know that trick.
Shifting gears, and for the reason above, I don't want to be the only one to flag the following post as "highly inappropriate". We only need two more and POOF! 😉
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1964666.aspx

Honestly, I'd already flagged it as inappropriate. His statements in brackets needs to go and then any resulting posts quoting it need to (obviously) be deleted or edited as well. It's totally inappropriate for a professional environment.

Thom~

Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736255 More actions · Answer 8

The contractor has begun work and the upgrade of the forums is the first thing. I've asked that they look at delaying notifications from posts for some period of time to allow the spam marking/reporting to catch up and prevent tons of emails going out.

Fingers are crossed.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 9

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:52 PM
The contractor has begun work and the upgrade of the forums is the first thing. I've asked that they look at delaying notifications from posts for some period of time to allow the spam marking/reporting to catch up and prevent tons of emails going out.
Fingers are crossed.

Cool. Thanks for the update, Steve.

--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)

Andrew P SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4649 More actions · Answer 10

It's interesting to note that those spam posts are not specific to SSC. Here are the Google search queries for a couple of the QQ codes in those spam posts [1], [2]. On another note, it may be good to remove the link to the exam dump link here.

Thomas Rushton SSC-Insane Points: 22649 More actions · Answer 11

Andrew P - Thursday, May 31, 2018 6:50 PM
It's interesting to note that those spam posts are not specific to SSC. Here are the Google search queries for a couple of the QQ codes in those spam posts [1], [2]. On another note, it may be good to remove the link to the exam dump link here.

Done.

Thomas Rushton
blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182912 More actions · Answer 12

ThomasRushton - Friday, June 1, 2018 2:30 AM
Andrew P - Thursday, May 31, 2018 6:50 PM
It's interesting to note that those spam posts are not specific to SSC. Here are the Google search queries for a couple of the QQ codes in those spam posts [1], [2]. On another note, it may be good to remove the link to the exam dump link here.
Done.

Got the suspicion that those are also running InstantForum
😎

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 13

Brandie Tarvin - Friday, May 25, 2018 7:41 AM
Oy! I get all the fun projects. I love a challenge. I don't love being on a deadline to learn a new programming language, though.
Any advice on decrypting a database table column via SSIS? Posting at https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/1959028/Object-variables-ADO-Recordsets-decrypting-column would be appreciated.

Learning a new progrmming language should require very little effort. If it requires more than prtically nothing there are three posible causes: (i) it's based on a paradigm (perhaps genuine declarativeness, which SQL people have difficulty getting heir heads around because they've been misled into believeing that a decidedly non-declarative language (SQL or T-SQL or PL-SQL) is declarative) that they think they understand but they don't; (ii) because it's a really awful badly designed programming language and they are used to much better designed languages; (ii) the learner is utterly dim.

I guess in your case something like reason (i) applies. I know it's not reason (iii).

Tom

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 14

jasona.work - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 6:56 AM
What does it say that, while I think I might know what the problem is, and I've already ginned up a solution and tested it, I'm not willing to post it until the OP answers a question?
And, as Lynn pointed out, the "schema / sample" is about as useful to trying to solve the issue as a pair of lead shoes for a drowning person...
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1963130.aspx
It's really a very easy problem, *IF* my supposition of their *REAL* data is correct.
(Which, I realize, their create table in the useless sample data, does seem to indicate I *AM* right.)

Lead? No, something denser than that, surely. Osmium shoes? No! Osmium Knee-boots.

Tom

Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99130 More actions · Answer 15

I know this particular user is a repeat offender for, but I feel they're getting worse. They've not even tried to solve the problem themselves, and they're not asking a question; just making a request (demand) for the solution: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/1966780/TSQl-Help-with-the-WHERE-CLAUSE-I-want-the-entire-records-set-as-output-or-just-the-ones-marked-in-2

Maybe we should start charging users like this for our time. 🙂

Thom~

Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk