May 31, 2012 at 9:49 am
Greed. Steve pays me $50 per post.
May 31, 2012 at 9:58 am
kerching $$$ Steve got any jobs 🙂
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May 31, 2012 at 10:04 am
SQL Kiwi (5/31/2012)
Greed. Steve pays me $50 per post.
Darn, I'm only getting $25 per post. Of course you probably are worth twice as much as I am.:-D
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May 31, 2012 at 10:16 am
SQL Kiwi (5/31/2012)
Greed. Steve pays me $50 per post.
I clearly need to ask Steve for a raise. About 200% would be nice.
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May 31, 2012 at 10:23 am
GilaMonster (5/31/2012)
SQL Kiwi (5/31/2012)
Greed. Steve pays me $50 per post.I clearly need to ask Steve for a raise. About 200% would be nice.
Wait, you all are getting paid???? Hey, Steve .........
May 31, 2012 at 10:29 am
Lynn Pettis (5/31/2012)
Wait, you all are getting paid???? Hey, Steve .........
Well this is awkward :laugh:
May 31, 2012 at 2:00 pm
For me it started because I was getting involved in a topic and got pushed over to another topic and then started browsing a third one in the middle of all that. I started to help.
I got my silly notion smacked down by the local gurus. It ate the dirt, hard. DAMN THEM!!! No, I'm kidding.
This forced me to go do three days of research and unlearn what I had self-taught over the course of 8 years.
In the year and a half or so that I've been active here helping other people I have unlearnt many bad concepts I had and have been helped by more experienced hands. Over that time I've been able to help any number of people with the 'simple' questions.
I help because it keeps me in touch with the community that is going out of their way to help me be a better developer and administrator. I help because I needed it and I'm more than happy to pay it back. I help because when I'm wrong, others here will patiently apply a board to the back of my head until I finally get it because I'm not just swinging through, I've proven that I have a grounding and they can help me work with that. I help because other people have problems and dilemmas I hope I never see, and they're interesting to fix.
I help because I want to, and because it helps me in return. 🙂
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May 31, 2012 at 3:42 pm
SQL Kiwi (5/31/2012)
Greed. Steve pays me $50 per post.
That's 50 Australian Sheep Dollars. Known in the US as monopoly money.
May 31, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Honestly, I'm not sure. We started the site with the idea of sharing knowledge, of writing about things we'd solved (Andy, Brian, myself) and helping others. We found quickly that people needed help with custom questions and we started answering them as a way to build the site.
Now I enjoy it. It's a lot of time, and I've cut way back because I have other responsibilities, but I still enjoy coming in here and trying to help someone solve an issue.
June 3, 2012 at 2:44 pm
In my opinion, there are two benefits in helping others with issues that we are familiar with (i.e. SQL Server, data). The first and most obvious is that there is a certain enjoyment gained out of helping out our peers. Because when it comes down to it, when we are in a bind it is nice to be able to turn to such a large group of experts and get such great advice and assistance with such a short turnaround time. But there is also a selfish side to helping out. I would think that the majority of us here really get a kick out of solving problems, optimizing, and just working on really big and complex puzzles (i.e. SQL Server, data). So when there are issues that we see, it's just another game to try and figure out what the problem is, or the best way for a solution. It's fun.
June 8, 2012 at 1:07 am
Because once in a while, you get replies like these:
Koen,
You rock! It worked for me! The solution I have found by following the link you provided, http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Integration+Services+(SSIS)/65112/, totally worked for me. I spent almost a week tweaking with the report design in BIDS in order to pull the dataset from the stored porcedure, but in vain. You have put me back on track with my project. Thank you very much!
And that makes it all worthwhile...
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June 8, 2012 at 7:50 am
Koen Verbeeck (6/8/2012)
Because once in a while, you get replies like these:Koen,
You rock! It worked for me! The solution I have found by following the link you provided, http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Integration+Services+(SSIS)/65112/, totally worked for me. I spent almost a week tweaking with the report design in BIDS in order to pull the dataset from the stored porcedure, but in vain. You have put me back on track with my project. Thank you very much!
And that makes it all worthwhile...
Great! I have to agree.
June 12, 2012 at 11:23 am
Koen Verbeeck (6/8/2012)
Because once in a while, you get replies like these:Koen,
You rock! It worked for me! The solution I have found by following the link you provided, http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Integration+Services+(SSIS)/65112/, totally worked for me. I spent almost a week tweaking with the report design in BIDS in order to pull the dataset from the stored porcedure, but in vain. You have put me back on track with my project. Thank you very much!
And that makes it all worthwhile...
And this as well:
Andre Ranieri (6/12/2012)
Thanks - I was wondering about that.BTW Lynn - I read your blogs religiously. Loved the one about deleting millions of rows in a batch without causing huge table locks. I used that technique to clear out years' worth of old audit logs from our CRM system.
Cheer,s
Andre
Now, I just need to get back to writing blog posts. I may need to contact Steve, since I had to rebuild my desktop system at home, I'm not sure I can connect to my blog site to post anything right now.
June 13, 2012 at 7:23 am
Can feel the love in the room:-D:w00t::-P
June 13, 2012 at 7:37 am
Just wanted to say thanks once again for all of the answers. It's been enlightening and fun reading. 🙂
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