March 13, 2014 at 4:22 am
Even with trusted sources - sometimes (often?) we can get it wrong, too. It's easy to misinterpret a 140-character question, or leave out a crucial detail.
Another thing I like about #SQLhelp is that it's bite-sized learning. Joey D'Antoni and I were talking with a few user group attendees last night after the Philly meeting, and one of them asked an exact question that he and I had answered that day on #SQLhelp! It was funny - anybody who watched our exchange on Twitter would have been able to answer that same question too, just based on seeing the #SQLhelp thread.
March 13, 2014 at 5:47 am
SQLServerCentral is best option according to me. This is due to two things one is limitation of 140 character and another many might not help you as twitter is filtered in firewall.
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March 13, 2014 at 6:46 am
It might surprise the average person how much more difficult the DBA job (or many tech jobs) would be without Google, Bing or sites like this.
March 13, 2014 at 7:18 am
This might be an option for some, but in our company we can not get to twitter, facebook, ect.
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March 13, 2014 at 7:30 am
I've never actually used Twitter, but it seems to me that if the question can be expressed in 140 characters or less, then the answer could probably by found quicker and more reliably by typing it into the search box on SQLServerCentral, especially if the results are sorted according to how the topic or answers were rated. However, if someone has hit a snag while trying to do something like configure DTC, and they've already tried step by step instructions on MSDN, then I can see how tweeting with a group of subject matter experts in real time would be very helpful. On the other hand, it does seem like a lot of clutter to sift through.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
March 13, 2014 at 11:13 am
I use Twitter and Facebook for personal connections and linked in for business related ones. For information I use newsletters. For issues there are forums. I tend not to like the vast instant social media style for development issues due to the amount of rubbish that you can get back.
Gaz
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March 13, 2014 at 11:47 am
I've used #sqlhelp a couple of times for quick, almost dumb questions that I couldn't find a quick answer for using google, but knew someone had to know off the top of their head. Worked like a charm.
For people who are the lone DBA or don't have an in-house mentor they can turn to for a quick question, it's a great resource.
THANK-YOU to everyone who follows & actively answers on #sqlhelp.
Leonard
Madison, WI
March 13, 2014 at 1:48 pm
One of the best parts of Twitter, and using #sqlhelp is that it forces you to think about your problem and include only the base of the problem as you only have 140 characters to express your problem. There has been at least one time when I was rewriting my question and thought of a different way to ask Google, and ended up finding the answer, basically focing me rubber ducking my issue against the twitter input box.
Jason Carter
Tampa, Florida
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young" - Henry Ford
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