nadabadan (2/10/2011)
I wasn't arguing whether the question was bad or good, I was arguing against your inane post. Had I not seen your post, I wouldn't have posted on this topic. In a world full of possibilities, you only see those 3? You got quite the chip on your shoulder.
Whether or not you mean this to be, this is a personal attack and completely unprofessional. Calling someone names or insulting them is neither logical nor a proper debate tactic for a true debate (I'm not talking politics either, because that's a horse of another debate color).
I've bolded the unnecessary word choices to show you what I mean. This response was completely uncalled for. In the future, please choose your words more carefully and with less bias then you've shown. As Craig said, it's one thing to question the ideas, quite another thing to attack the person behind the ideas.
EDIT:
And may I add, from your first and second posts (which both came off as confrontational from the very start):
Or how about if you want to see how much a person REALLY knows about T-SQL or want to see their thought process.
Screaming (capitalizing an entire word) in the first post reads as if you're insulting every single person who has responded to this thread up to the point of your first post. Or as if you're being really sarcastic to everyone. Maybe that's not what you meant, but because you wrote it that way, it came across as argumentative and defensive.
Right and if you have 10 years of experience with T-SQL, this question would have been a breeze and you would understand the REASON for the question.
This statement, from your second post, is entirely insulting. As if you believe you are the only intelligent person contributing to this thread. Again, you may not have meant it this way, but that's how everyone read it.
I'm only pointing this out because quite often everyone forgets that communicating via text is not the same thing as communicating with voice. Without body language, vocal tones, and facial expressions to compare the written word to, the reader is quite often left with his or her own interpretation of the words. Which is why everyone needs to be careful of how they write their sentences.
It's quite easy to read the word "you" as a personal pronoun instead of a generic "everyone" kind of pronoun, hence the reason your second post not only came across as defensive, argumentative and insulting, but provoked the response that it did.
I'm sure your verbal debate skills are every bit as good as you say they are. Unfortunately, they are not translating well in written text, so please be more careful how you answer questions in the future.