thisisfutile (11/25/2008)
Jeff Moden (11/25/2008)
...Heh... then there's the "intelligent" ones that say things like "performance" doesn't matter and will argue for hours about it. The only reason why I continue in such a debate is because I don't want any newbies to think that performance doesn't matter.
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In an effort to both edify a strong forum poster (Jeff) and to give kudos to a great forum (SSC), I'd like to quote Jeff and point everyone's attention to a post he just made (< 24hours ago...I think). It's toward the bottom, me quoting Jeff, quoting me, quoting Jeff (Post #608311). Both his professionalism and his conviction won me over to his side of the argument(http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic607292-1424-6.aspx).
In short, I agree with Manie that these forums, especially for fledgling DBA's like myself (title withheld for fear of seeing a dark side of Jeff that I haven't encountered yet. ;)), are indispensable.
Wow. Thanks for the great compliment and support!
Heh... yeah... I love it when two or more folks get engaged in good stong conversations with good code proofs and good examples. I've learned a huge amount from those especially if I can squeeze my way into the conversation. I love good proofs like that until someone reduces the dialog to ruble with name calling or feather fluffing like one of the folks has started doing on the very thread thisisfutile mentioned... it's so very hard to suppress the "dark side", then. But, in most cases, I go back to only that which is valuable... the proof is always in the code. 😀
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.