June 22, 2010 at 1:11 pm
da-zero (6/18/2010)
Good question.Lose one point but learn a useful fact. A good trade-off 😀
Yep...This is what happended to me too. I don't mind loosing a point if I learn something.
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June 22, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Trey Staker (6/22/2010)Yep...This is what happended to me too. I don't mind loosing a point if I learn something.
I think it is interesting that people say they are losing the point(s), as if they are supposed to be automatic. (You never had the point to lose it; you just failed to earn the point.)
I agree in the cases that I failed to earn the point(s) I usually learned something, which is good. (Even if it was as simple as I needed to actually read the question instead of making an assumption.)
June 22, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Good question, learnt something new, thanks.
June 30, 2010 at 10:22 am
UMG Developer (6/22/2010)
I think it is interesting that people say they are losing the point(s), as if they are supposed to be automatic. (You never had the point to lose it; you just failed to earn the point.)
Remember: English is a world language now. So your dialect may be different from someone else's dialect.
We talk about teams losing games, we talk about teams in leagues losing points, and we use "lose" for many more things which were never possessed by theose doing the losing, so according to you they could not be lost. So there are cases where it is normal to talk about "losing" something you never had, at least in all the versions of English I'm acquainted with. Also there are things for which one can't use "lose" that way, and which things those are varies from dialect to dialect (maybe even from idolect to idiolect). In my version of English points in an SQL trivia quizz are things you can lose even though you haven't got them (and indeed they can't be lost once you do have them). I guess the same applies to the people you were commenting about.
Tom
August 16, 2010 at 4:48 am
Hugo's explanation had more about this question.. Thank you both..
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Yuvaraj
September 27, 2010 at 12:56 am
I learn something new from this question. Thank you!
September 29, 2010 at 7:13 pm
got me on null constrains
March 7, 2012 at 3:38 pm
That's a good question and one that is important especially for a beginner when one may require input data from another table's results of a simple query. Thanks
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