SanDroid (11/18/2010)
da-zero (11/18/2010)
We would prefer your respect for the effort that the author has made to create a question so that people could learn about compression, instead of calling it "dissapointing and lame".If you look at some of these posts several people asked the author to respond to the fact that they where not able to replicate what he described.
Why where no responses were made?
Did you learn something that was real?
Did you test the concept?
I made an opinionated response about the question and it's content and that is On Topic discussion.
IMHO: Attacking those opinions and calling them Babble and putting Off Topic mis information in the same paragraph helps nobody learn and clarifies nothing.
I do not call "dissapointing and lame" an opinionated response. I'm sure there are more people who learned something from the question (e.g. metadata overhead for compression) than learned something from the fact that there is no SQL Server definition of "defined row size". So yes, I did learn something that was real. And I did not test the concept, as it is already crystal clear.
So you can call something dissapointing and lame and call it opinionated, but if someone else calls your arguments "babble", then there is a problem.
Pot, kettle, anyone?
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