• Sean Lange (7/28/2014)


    patrickmcginnis59 10839 (7/28/2014)

    I think in your case if you'd have answered the cursor question first, and then said "then watch for performance issues as cursors on SQL Server are notoriously slow" or something along those lines, it may have fit better.

    This to me sounds like the entirely wrong approach. You are suggesting that I should spend my time showing them how to write a cursor just so I can then spend more time to show them how not to use one? I am NOT going to teach somebody coding techniques that need to be changed just because they asked how to do it. That to me is not how a good mentoring system should work. I don't like the notion that the point of answering questions is to horde as many points as you can. The idea should be to help people learn and become better. That has been my approach here at SSC. I guess that is not how SO works.

    I agree with that sentiment.

    If all it is about is the rep and just answering a question, then the person can find the answer in BOL just as easily as posting a question to SO or SSC. But if you can add a discussion and teach them, then that is the better route.

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