TomThomson (2/14/2015)
TriggerMan (2/12/2015)
It WAS easy. Yes, I missed it as well. Sometimes we look for the difficulty in a problem, we miss the easy solution. Point well made, indeed. Just as an aside for all you "why do people get it wrong?" crowd, some people actually wear many hats in their career with SQL being "just" a part of it. Some of us multi-taskers quite often find solutions that even our most "expert" PAID DBAs do not. It's actually kind of funny, because the running joke around the office is that if you want to feel horrible about yourself and your SQL skills, come to this site. That's really too bad. I know that's not what Steve has intended and there is often very valuable information on here. Dismounting soapbox: I would stay and chat more, but I have a ton of work to get to.I sometimes wonder why people are so non-constructive. I made a serious attempt (a few messages back) to answer the "why do people get it wrong" question, because it's an important question and if we can find the answer we can avoid a lot of grief (not only for ourselves, but for others) and now I see a comment like yours which seems to suggest we shouldn't bother. It's not discouraging, really, because for veery comment like yours I see two or three or more that indicate appreciation of what people here are trying to do, but it is really, utterly, shockingly negaitive. Why on earth do you do it?
I think his post was fine. He's just relaying some experiences and impressions. Websites and communities would be pretty hard pressed to please everybody, and this place in particular is often an unmoderated heap of bad attitudes. I don't think TriggerMan's post was shocking at all, and his experience with an online forum isn't entirely unheard of in the history of the internet 🙂