Are the posted questions getting worse?

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 1

SOM! Or LASHIWAB!! Gus takes the day with that last comment. Unfortunately, forumdog had already leapt from the precipice...

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How best to post your question[/url]
How to post performance problems[/url]
Tally Table:What it is and how it replaces a loop[/url]

"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."

jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 2

... which prompted me to Google LASHIWAB, which results lead to my next question... should answers on ask.sqlservercentral.com be scored higher if they were given in rhyme rather than prose? Should all answers be given in rhyme?

I've joked about an 'iambic pentameter' day here at work, where all conversations and emails must follow the bard's example, but nobody wants to take me up on it. Luckily (or unluckily) I don't work with Phil Factor, or it'd be no contest.

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How best to post your question[/url]
How to post performance problems[/url]
Tally Table:What it is and how it replaces a loop[/url]

"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."

GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 3

jcrawf02 (11/18/2009)
... which prompted me to Google LASHIWAB, which results lead to my next question... should answers on ask.sqlservercentral.com be scored higher if they were given in rhyme rather than prose? Should all answers be given in rhyme?
I've joked about an 'iambic pentameter' day here at work, where all conversations and emails must follow the bard's example, but nobody wants to take me up on it. Luckily (or unluckily) I don't work with Phil Factor, or it'd be no contest.

Phil is annonymous. So how do you know you don't work with him?

(Paranoia as a form of entertainment!)

- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
Property of The Thread

"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 4

jcrawf02 (11/18/2009)
... which prompted me to Google LASHIWAB, which results lead to my next question... should answers on ask.sqlservercentral.com be scored higher if they were given in rhyme rather than prose? Should all answers be given in rhyme?
I've joked about an 'iambic pentameter' day here at work, where all conversations and emails must follow the bard's example, but nobody wants to take me up on it. Luckily (or unluckily) I don't work with Phil Factor, or it'd be no contest.

Now is not the time

To answer in rhyme

To answer in prose

Does someone propose?

😎

Alvin Ramard
Memphis PASS Chapter[/url]

All my SSC forum answers come with a money back guarantee. If you didn't like the answer then I'll gladly refund what you paid for it.

For best practices on asking questions, please read the following article: Forum Etiquette: How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help[/url]

jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 5

Alvin Ramard (11/18/2009)
jcrawf02 (11/18/2009)
... which prompted me to Google LASHIWAB, which results lead to my next question... should answers on ask.sqlservercentral.com be scored higher if they were given in rhyme rather than prose? Should all answers be given in rhyme?
I've joked about an 'iambic pentameter' day here at work, where all conversations and emails must follow the bard's example, but nobody wants to take me up on it. Luckily (or unluckily) I don't work with Phil Factor, or it'd be no contest.
Now is not the time
To answer in rhyme
To answer in prose
Does someone propose?
😎

Dear Friend, what other time than now

Have we to answer thee or thou?

Forthwith we must dispense our aid,

Altho' admit we, not much gained,

in rhyme, more fun than prose we find,

And now retire, our verse unsigned.

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How best to post your question[/url]
How to post performance problems[/url]
Tally Table:What it is and how it replaces a loop[/url]

"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."

GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 6

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I'm not a poet

And you aren't either

- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
Property of The Thread

"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon

john.arnott SSChampion Points: 11882 More actions · Answer 7

GilaMonster (11/16/2009)
Aaahhhhhh!!!
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic817076-146-1.aspx
Spoon feeding?

So I'm trying to keep up with the Thread and ended up falling out of my chair laughing with the denouement of this conversation from a couple of days ago.

After three pages of posts, several attempts to clarify, helpful uploads of screen shots and reiterations of guesses at the root cause, we get this final post from the OP:

Actually the drive Letter had changed by the client from S: to G:,therefore problem was occurring.

Again, as Emily Letitia would have said, "Never mind."

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 8

Any fool can write

Haiku in English.

All he does is stop at sev

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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 9

Ok - it's not prose or rhyme but it is set to Jingle bells

/*

Pouring through the code

of a cursor based stored proc

Making it set-based

Eating a Pork Chop

Set-based procs we write

Making you look bright

What fun it is to code and write

Efficient code tonight

Oh, SQL Geek, SQL Geek

SQL on the brain

Oh, let's go - and launch pork chops

From a RBAR colander

Oh, SQL Geek, SQL Geek

SQL On the brain

Oh, let's go - and launch pork chops

From a RBAR colander

*/

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
Learn Extended Events

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004254 More actions · Answer 10

CirquedeSQLeil (11/18/2009)
Ok - it's not prose or rhyme but it is set to Jingle bells
/*
Pouring through the code
of a cursor based stored proc
Making it set-based
Eating a Pork Chop
Set-based procs we write
Making you look bright
What fun it is to code and write
Efficient code tonight
Oh, SQL Geek, SQL Geek
SQL on the brain
Oh, let's go - and launch pork chops
From a RBAR colander
Oh, SQL Geek, SQL Geek
SQL On the brain
Oh, let's go - and launch pork chops
From a RBAR colander
*/

Heh... like I told Alvin... you have way to much time on your hands. :-P:hehe:

--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)

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 11

john.arnott (11/18/2009)
Again, as Emily Letitia would have said, "Never mind."

Indeed. Who creates a database without checking to see if the drive they want to create it on really exists?

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 12

Jason, three words of advice, bro:

SEEK HELP NOW

:laugh:

Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
@SQL_Kiwi

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65141 More actions · Answer 13

Lynn Pettis (11/18/2009)
Alvin Ramard (11/18/2009)
Question: Why do ou keep banging your head against the wall?
Answer: Because it feels so good when I stop.
You mean I have been hitting my head against a wall all this time? 😉
Actually, the wall usually gives way first, just too hard headed I guess. 😛

Well at least you're not pig headed or Jeff will have you for pork chops :w00t:

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 14

Welcome back David!

Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
@SQL_Kiwi

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65141 More actions · Answer 15

Thanks Paul. Been lurking but not much posting. Bit busy 🙁

The thread keeps taunting me, getting me to lurk during work time :angry:

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.