January 1, 2009 at 12:00 pm
I think everyone would abuse a "Challenges" forum... might as well label it the "Urgent" forum. 😀
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
January 1, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I can't imagine why? "Challenge" doesn't imply that anyone is going to reply anytime soon.
Maybe "Puzzles & Challenges"?
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January 1, 2009 at 12:13 pm
That reminds me, I really do think that we should have "sticky" posts for the Forums. (moderator-only, obviously) In my experience, it has been really helpful for keeping the ground rules & FAQs for a forum.
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Proactive Performance Solutions, Inc. [/font][font="Verdana"] "Performance is our middle name."[/font]
January 2, 2009 at 1:15 am
RBarryYoung (1/1/2009)
I can't imagine why? "Challenge" doesn't imply that anyone is going to reply anytime soon.Maybe "Puzzles & Challenges"?
Sounds like a good idea. I just think that it must be as challenging as possible and people must really do some research before they answer and maybe be asked to tell us how they came to that answer and not just give an answer. What do think about that?
:-PManie Verster
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I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. - Holy Bible
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. - Everett Mckinley Dirkson (Well, I am trying. - Manie Verster)
January 2, 2009 at 5:43 am
Manie Verster (1/2/2009)
RBarryYoung (1/1/2009)
I can't imagine why? "Challenge" doesn't imply that anyone is going to reply anytime soon.Maybe "Puzzles & Challenges"?
Sounds like a good idea. I just think that it must be as challenging as possible and people must really do some research before they answer and maybe be asked to tell us how they came to that answer and not just give an answer. What do think about that?
I don't think that's a bad idea, but isn't that sort of what the articles are supposed to be? I know that's largely how I work them. Two or three paragraphs is a post, 4-6 paragraphs goes to the blog, >6 goes to Steve.
However, I do agree with Jeff, marking it as Challenge or even Puzzle, is likely to bring in those favorite posts of everyone, "I need an answer immediately." Maybe call it "Testing Results" or "Testing the Engine" or "Testing a Hypothesis" or something along those lines.
Thinking about it some more, I also agree with GSquared, the Performance Tuning and TSQL forums could be combined. You're likely to see a bunch of posts about indexes mixed in with the TSQL though.
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January 2, 2009 at 8:00 am
Here are some additional sections:
-Upgrade (to latest release)
-Data Access Layer (LINQ, ADO.NET, ODBC, JDBC, marshalling)
-Conversion (to/from non-SQL Server DBMS)
-Schema Design
Performance Tuning can be broken down into:
-System & Network Configuration & Tuning
-DBMS Parameter Tuning
-Datafile Placement Tuning
-Storage Array Tuning
-Physical Schema Tuning, Indexes, Index Views & Denormallization
-Application SQL & Query Plan Tuning
-Data Access Layer Tuning (connection pool, marshalling)
The danger in breaking down performance tuning in this way is that individuals may focus on only one way of tuning (sub-topic) to the exclusion of all other methods.
January 2, 2009 at 10:07 am
Yikes, you're giving me more forums!
I like the Challenges. We have a "contests" one, but I'll rename it to Challenges/Contests.
I'm not sure how much work is involved in anything other than renaming/combining forums. And we have other, higher priority items.
January 2, 2009 at 10:14 am
Steve Jones - Editor (1/2/2009)
Yikes, you're giving me more forums!I like the Challenges. We have a "contests" one, but I'll rename it to Challenges/Contests.
I'm not sure how much work is involved in anything other than renaming/combining forums. And we have other, higher priority items.
I was wondering how you would receive those extra forum suggestions... heh!
But, like my original suggestion, why limit? Tag it, flag it, meta-data-size it, and let GUI be user driven! :w00t:
You can still keep the original "preferred" structure to the site, and still allow a user flexible customization of grouping and sorting the browsing experience.
January 2, 2009 at 10:15 am
Are you glad there is so much feed back on this topic?!!
January 2, 2009 at 10:16 am
If changes are in the offing, could we have an option to get all the RSS feeds under a group as well as the ones for each forum?
January 2, 2009 at 1:14 pm
This might be a completely different subject but I'd like to ask whether it is possible to change the way the notifications are done. I cannot always check my e-mail all the time and when after a day I do then my mailbox is full of notifications on one subject. Now, I know I can ask not to be notified but I don't quite want to do that. When a thread gets a lot of posts like this one, then there is a lot of notifications. What about an extra option to get one notification per day per thread?
:-PManie Verster
Developer
Johannesburg
South Africa
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. - Holy Bible
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. - Everett Mckinley Dirkson (Well, I am trying. - Manie Verster)
January 3, 2009 at 1:04 am
Long discussion here... just another one thing here is that it would be better to have one link to collect the threads with zero reply!
Thnx!
:w00t:
January 3, 2009 at 9:35 am
Hey, I really like that idea, Dugi!
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January 3, 2009 at 10:05 am
I'll be the third vote for having a page for posts with 0 replies. When there is nothing I want to answer in Active Threads I go through the forums sorting by number of replies ascending and answer the 0's and 1's if I have any clue or just to ask a question. This puts them in the Active Threads list and many times they get other responses because of that.
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January 4, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Active Threads used to be one way we found low-reply items. The other was a job that ran once a day and "reposted" a note to threads with no replies that we'll take another look. That might be a job I need to institute again and have it kick those items back into Active Threads.
I do like the view of stuff with no replies. Not sure if you can search for those, but I'll look around and see.
The problem with GUI changes is that we then have to rewrite a lot of forum code to make things work. The basics of the forums don't allow a lot of changes, but I'm trying to get someone to talk with InstantForums on a regular basis about stuff like this.
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