Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 1

Adam Machanic (4/22/2010)
I'm convinced that it's a cultural thing. Apparently in Indian culture it's okay to copy someone else's work.

I have heard this before too. I don't mind people using my stuff - but it is nice to be asked, and I do prefer it if they leave my name on it somewhere 🙂

Blatantly passing someone else's work as your own is very uncool.

Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
@SQL_Kiwi

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

WayneS (4/22/2010)
WayneS (4/22/2010)
Paul White NZ (4/22/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (4/22/2010)
Part II plagiarized here
http://www.hyderabadtechies.info/index.php/articles/39-articles/748-hyderabad-techies-article
Thank you Jason.
I have just received a very apologetic email from the site administrator. He has promised to take down the offending content and 'warn the user'. I'll be sure to check!
He's been emailed. I mentioned that I charge $10,000 USD per hour for un-authorized publication of my articles, and suggested that he pay up or remove the articles from his web site.
I also mentioned that this "author" has plagiarized every article that he has "written" and "published" on this web site, and that they should all be immediately removed.
Just got a bounce-back on my email... "The e-mail message could not be delivered because the user's mailfolder is full."
Wonder why?

When you google your articles, are you doing just the title?

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 3

Paul White NZ (4/22/2010)
The author 'kaustavm' is clearly one to watch 😉

Well, all of the articles "written" by this "author" have been removed from the offending web site.

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 4

Lynn Pettis (4/22/2010)
When you google your articles, are you doing just the title?

That's what I just did... just the title.

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 5

WayneS (4/22/2010)
Paul White NZ (4/22/2010)
The author 'kaustavm' is clearly one to watch 😉
Well, all of the articles "written" by this "author" have been removed from the offending web site.

Excellent news. What a dick.

Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
@SQL_Kiwi

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 6

Poetic justice would be for those "authors" to get jobs after pointing to their great bodies of published work. Then when they show up for work, are told by their employers...

No, no. You have been hired to shovel sh__ for five cents an hour.

Yes, we know our add said "SQL Server DBA, salary $200k."

But nobody would have applied for the shoveling job if we told the truth.

😎

__________________________________________________

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 7

Paul White NZ (4/22/2010)
WayneS (4/22/2010)
Paul White NZ (4/22/2010)
The author 'kaustavm' is clearly one to watch 😉

I just got an email from the author as well as the site admin. Both apologizing. That was a very quick response.

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

The Dixie Flatline (4/22/2010)
Poetic justice would be for those "authors" to get jobs after pointing to their great bodies of published work. Then when they show up for work, are told by their employers...
No, no. You have been hired to shovel sh__ for five cents an hour.
Yes, we know our add said "SQL Server DBA, salary $200k."
But nobody would have applied for the shoveling job if we told the truth.
😎

Cruel - but funny

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

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 9

CirquedeSQLeil (4/23/2010)
I just got an email from the author as well as the site admin. Both apologizing. That was a very quick response.

Just received one from the 'author' - pretty much the same text as the one you received.

I was benevolent in my reply.

Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
@SQL_Kiwi

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 10

Paul White NZ (4/23/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (4/23/2010)
I just got an email from the author as well as the site admin. Both apologizing. That was a very quick response.
Just received one from the 'author' - pretty much the same text as the one you received.
I was benevolent in my reply.

I'm sure you were (and I am still laughing - not too often one hears the word benevolent in a techie forum and it made me laugh).

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

spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 11

Interesting question.

Has any of you solved this problem before? I would like to see your opinions.

-- Gianluca Sartori

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 12

GSquared (4/22/2010)
jcrawf02 (4/22/2010)
Grant Fritchey (4/22/2010)
jcrawf02 (4/21/2010)
Pity that Brent will get kicked out of the MVP club so soon after his MCM... 😛
And now for something completely different...
Any advice on ridding my lawn of the pesky dandelion? Last year I chose to uproot, out of sheer idiocy I suppose, choosing to just extract them as I found them, while realizing I was not solving the problem. (Work harder, not smarter - which by the way, have you guys seen the Scotts article where they dynamited them and they still grew back? classic...)
This year I waffled back and forth between fertilizer that is supposed to kill 'em and just killing 'em, and landed on the side of Roundup. (ahhh...liquid death...)
Course now I gots brown spots. (On some, apparently I was trigger-shy on the rest of them, and they just look kind of depressed instead of dead)
Any thoughts?
Chemical warfare... that or take off & nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
lol thanks. What was that compound that makes sand burn again? :hehe:
Clorine triflouride
It's hypergolic with just about everything.

The rocket propellant section of the Wikipedia entry for Chlorine triflouride is worth a read 😉

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 13

Paul White NZ (4/22/2010)
Adam Machanic (4/22/2010)
Unbelievable. Have you sent him a friendly cease and desist yet?
I have indeed. Hopefully the site administrators will do the decent thing.

It's done, your virtue is intact, Paul. Well, only slightly blemished.

^{“Write the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw}

For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

BrainDonor SSCoach Points: 19254 More actions · Answer 14

P Jones (4/22/2010)
I've got Japanese Knotweed in the garden and no weed is worse 🙁
The extra strength Roundup 3000 from the local farmers supply store is now winning but it's the fifth year of applying and there's still new shoots popping up.
The only other cure I've heard for jap knotweed is to move house!

There's a long-term solution to that fun plant being researched in the UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8557877.stm

BrainDonor

Steve Hall
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Tom257 SSChampion Points: 11543 More actions · Answer 15

Chris Morris-439714 (4/23/2010)
GSquared (4/22/2010)
jcrawf02 (4/22/2010)
Grant Fritchey (4/22/2010)
jcrawf02 (4/21/2010)
Pity that Brent will get kicked out of the MVP club so soon after his MCM... 😛
And now for something completely different...
Any advice on ridding my lawn of the pesky dandelion? Last year I chose to uproot, out of sheer idiocy I suppose, choosing to just extract them as I found them, while realizing I was not solving the problem. (Work harder, not smarter - which by the way, have you guys seen the Scotts article where they dynamited them and they still grew back? classic...)
This year I waffled back and forth between fertilizer that is supposed to kill 'em and just killing 'em, and landed on the side of Roundup. (ahhh...liquid death...)
Course now I gots brown spots. (On some, apparently I was trigger-shy on the rest of them, and they just look kind of depressed instead of dead)
Any thoughts?
Chemical warfare... that or take off & nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
lol thanks. What was that compound that makes sand burn again? :hehe:
Clorine triflouride
It's hypergolic with just about everything.
The rocket propellant section of the Wikipedia entry for Chlorine triflouride is worth a read 😉

Standard rocketery/firework instructions:

Light the blue touchpaper and RUN!