Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 1

Brandie Tarvin (5/18/2011)
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Excellent! Good job helping the community.
Wait. We're supposed to be helping?
I signed up for SSC to mess with people's minds. No one ever said I was supposed to be helping!
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Are you saying that messing with people's minds isn't "helping"? Ah man! Now I have to reprioritize everything in my whole life!

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004514 More actions · Answer 2

*screams*

When will people stop recommending Emergency mode repair as the default action with a suspect DB. That's about the 4th time I've seen that garbage this week.

Forget shrink database, I want that info to disappear permanently.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281344 More actions · Answer 3

GilaMonster (5/18/2011)
*screams*
When will people stop recommending Emergency mode repair as the default action with a suspect DB. That's about the 4th time I've seen that garbage this week.
Forget shrink database, I want that info to disappear permanently.

I wonder if they are doing it just to get a rise out of you??? 😉

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738683 More actions · Answer 4

Any ideas? It's for me, and not critical, but I found it interesting:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1111177-392-1.aspx

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GilaMonster (5/18/2011)
*screams*
When will people stop recommending Emergency mode repair as the default action with a suspect DB. That's about the 4th time I've seen that garbage this week.
Forget shrink database, I want that info to disappear permanently.

Probably in SQL 18, when there are 100x more posts that say emergency mode is a bad idea than say try it.

The way to combat this is for more people to write a blog or post in a forum that "this is bad" and link to other posts rather than saying that Paul or Gail wrote one and read it. The nature of search engines is that more items that have the advice, and link together, move them up in the search results.

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281344 More actions · Answer 6

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/18/2011)
GilaMonster (5/18/2011)
*screams*
When will people stop recommending Emergency mode repair as the default action with a suspect DB. That's about the 4th time I've seen that garbage this week.
Forget shrink database, I want that info to disappear permanently.
Probably in SQL 18, when there are 100x more posts that say emergency mode is a bad idea than say try it.
The way to combat this is for more people to write a blog or post in a forum that "this is bad" and link to other posts rather than saying that Paul or Gail wrote one and read it. The nature of search engines is that more items that have the advice, and link together, move them up in the search results.

Good points

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738683 More actions · Answer 7

Any chance someone can go a better job than me in explaining this is a bad idea: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1111536-392-1.aspx?Update=1

Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 8

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/19/2011)
Any chance someone can go a better job than me in explaining this is a bad idea: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1111536-392-1.aspx?Update=1

Tried my humble best.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 399278 More actions · Answer 9

Craig Farrell (5/19/2011)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/19/2011)
Any chance someone can go a better job than me in explaining this is a bad idea: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1111536-392-1.aspx?Update=1
Tried my humble best.

No, that was really good. Excellent description of exactly where he was going off the rails. Well done.

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Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 10

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/19/2011)
Any chance someone can go a better job than me in explaining this is a bad idea: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1111536-392-1.aspx?Update=1

It looked good to me, I just suggested looking at a different tool.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738683 More actions · Answer 11

Thanks, felt like I was timewarped back to writing record stores in the filesystem with C. Hard to explain to someone that has such a different view of how a data store works what SQL Server does.

mister.magoo SSC-Forever Points: 47174 More actions · Answer 12

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This takes the biscuit http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1112017.aspx

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MM

select geometry::STGeomFromWKB(0x0106000000020000000103000000010000000B0000001000000000000840000000000000003DD8CCCCCCCCCC0840000000000000003DD8CCCCCCCCCC08408014AE47E17AFC3F040000000000104000CDCCCCCCCCEC3F9C999999999913408014AE47E17AFC3F9C99999999991340000000000000003D0000000000001440000000000000003D000000000000144000000000000000400400000000001040000000000000F03F100000000000084000000000000000401000000000000840000000000000003D0103000000010000000B000000000000000000143D000000000000003D009E99999999B93F000000000000003D009E99999999B93F8014AE47E17AFC3F400000000000F03F00CDCCCCCCCCEC3FA06666666666FE3F8014AE47E17AFC3FA06666666666FE3F000000000000003D1800000000000040000000000000003D18000000000000400000000000000040400000000000F03F000000000000F03F000000000000143D0000000000000040000000000000143D000000000000003D, 0);

jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 13

mister.magoo (5/19/2011)
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This takes the biscuit http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1112017.aspx
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hahahahaha....sorry you put so much time into that one, but that's pretty funny...

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/19/2011)
Thanks, felt like I was timewarped back to writing record stores in the filesystem with C. Hard to explain to someone that has such a different view of how a data store works what SQL Server does.

Bwhahahahahaha....

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mister.magoo SSC-Forever Points: 47174 More actions · Answer 15

jcrawf02 (5/19/2011)
mister.magoo (5/19/2011)
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This takes the biscuit http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1112017.aspx
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hahahahaha....sorry you put so much time into that one, but that's pretty funny...

True - at least I had a nice steak in the middle of it.

Thankfully I didn't feel the need to try and help clean up the rest of the horrific query!

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select geometry::STGeomFromWKB(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