Are the posted questions getting worse?
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Matt Whitfield (9/18/2009)
Ian Scarlett (9/18/2009)
In your "football", everyone can touch the ball with their feet and only one person can touch it with their hands (the goalie). So your game is like watching two teams of burn victims with only one survivor on each team.
Actually, in "our football", anyone can use their hands... to take a throw-in.:-P
Or score a goal...
Aah yes, I'd forgotten about "the hand of god".:-)
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Paul,
I am a fairly light editor. I try to let you keep your voice, where a lot of editors beat it down into prose that's more academic and standard.
I can't help you with the comments. People will always comment, but you have to ignore the outliers for the most part. There's always someone smarter than you that wants to show off, and there's always people that just don't get what you say and argue/comment that it's your fault.
It does take a thick skin, but I also think it's a nice feather on your resume that you've published something if most people like it. Feel free to email me if you have questions. You can send me a draft if you want, either email or the contribution center.
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Paul White (9/18/2009)
¿???p??? o? p??? si?? pui? lli? ????dsi??? u?????ou ??? ?o?? ?ldo?d ?i ??puo? iActually, once I saw it here on my pc, no problem reading it at all. When I tried reading it on my crackberry, different story as it had a bunch of garbage characters.
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Jack Corbett (9/18/2009)
Lynn,I did read your latest article and it was good. I usually only comment on the ones that have what I believe to be a bad practice in them or ones that really hit what I'm working on. The best part is the inclusion of the TX log backup.
I'm sort of in your camp on commenting on most articles. In this regard, having had some "interesting" remarks, I was just out fishing for some more respectible comments as well.
Plus, I have a lot of respect for the opinions of many of the denizens of The Thread and having their feedback helps me improve my knowledge as well.
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Paul White (9/18/2009)
¿???p??? o? p??? si?? pui? lli? ????dsi??? u?????ou ??? ?o?? ?ldo?d ?i ??puo? iHeh... I guess it literally depends on how you look at it. 😛
I've gotta know... where did you get the upside down font and why does it work on this forum?
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Maybe it's the way my brain works, but I find that language is not only a tool of expression but also of organization. A thought will occur while reading an article or other material and if I try to share that in writing, I'll often find myself revising my own opinion and therefore changing what I've just written. Or even deleting it as poorly conceived.
I would guess that some folks don't read what they've said before hitting "Post", never mind reading the original article carefully to be sure they understand what the author was saying. In other words, the "Preview" button is your friend.
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Jeff Moden (9/18/2009)
Paul White (9/18/2009)
¿???p??? o? p??? si?? pui? lli? ????dsi??? u?????ou ??? ?o?? ?ldo?d ?i ??puo? iHeh... I guess it literally depends on how you look at it. 😛
I've gotta know... where did you get the upside down font and why does it work on this forum?
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Let's not get crazy with the upside down font now....this thread is hard enough to follow.
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RBarryYoung (9/18/2009)
Paul White (9/18/2009)
...Whenever I consider writing for SSC, two things put me off:
1. The submission process itself; and
2. The daft comments
Paul
Well, if daft comments put me off then I never would have become a consultant (I'm pretty sure that any consultant will back me up on that one :-D). But I am curious on #1, what about the submission process bothers you? The only thing about it that I have trouble with is the freakin' editor, which is like from H*ll.
Just to clarify: I meant the submission editing and formatting tool "editor", not Steve the "editor". 😀
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RBarryYoung (9/18/2009)
Paul White (9/18/2009)
¿???p??? o? p??? si?? pui? lli? ????dsi??? u?????ou ??? ?o?? ?ldo?d ?i ??puo? iI'm a lot more curious as to how you do this...?
Great trick though. 🙂
Ah, now I see. Very clever.
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Steve Jones - Editor (9/18/2009)
Let's not get crazy with the upside down font now....this thread is hard enough to follow.... especially if you start reading at the bottom of the page and work your way up.
🙂
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Anyone else want to add anything here?
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Grant Fritchey (9/18/2009)
Lynn Pettis (9/17/2009)
Just an FYI for the denizens of The Thread, next Tuesday I have another article being republished here on ssc as well. Keep an eye out as I am looking for feedback on it as well. 😉Three is the magic number. When are you going to submit an abstract for an article in the SQL Server Standard?
Not sure Grant. I'll have to think about it as I'm not too sure what I'd write about in a printed magazine. I know you posted a link to what one needed to do to write for SQL Server Standard, could you repost that link?
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Yeah, get the front end programmers to split out the crap and remove the ORs. Stuff like that is a mess.
Might be easier to suck those desired codes into a small table and make a real join. I have often wondered if that would be better, and deal with the maintenance of building a small table and maintaining it with codes you need.
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Lynn Pettis (9/18/2009)
Grant Fritchey (9/18/2009)
Lynn Pettis (9/17/2009)
Just an FYI for the denizens of The Thread, next Tuesday I have another article being republished here on ssc as well. Keep an eye out as I am looking for feedback on it as well. 😉Three is the magic number. When are you going to submit an abstract for an article in the SQL Server Standard?
Not sure Grant. I'll have to think about it as I'm not too sure what I'd write about in a printed magazine. I know you posted a link to what one needed to do to write for SQL Server Standard, could you repost that link?
Absolutely. Here you go.
And we're not printed. It's going to be electronic. Probably as a PDF so that it's "pretty." The plans are to put together a best of or yearly summary or something and print that, but those are currently just plans. I'd love to have you there.
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