Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Jeremy Brown SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4223 More actions · Answer 1

Michael Earl (11/18/2008)
Is it me, or are the posted questions getting worse these days?
I just read a post by someone apparently in charge of something who was asking how to take a database backup and restore it on another server.
It seems like the general feeling of a lot of DBA's (term used loosely) these days is that they do not need to learn anything by reading or studying and they should simply post questions without doing any work themselves. I would expect that they can click the search button at least once before posting a question in a forum.
Anyone else disappointed lately, or am I just getting bitter?

Yep, I agree with you bud. However that's the way it goes on a public forum.

Don't get bitter about it. Just pay more attention to the posts that matter.

I think you'll find there's a certain amount of "tongue-in-cheek" color to the responses of the kind of posts you're describing. Yes the responses are helpful (still), maintaining a certain professional integrity. But the responders here also do a good job of saying (in a certain tone) to "RTFM" 🙂

Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9029 More actions · Answer 2

It snows here as well occasionally. Not down in town, but on the mountains surrounding Cape Town (occasionally some slush on Table Mountain too, but rarely). When it DOES snow, the whole of town is off into the mountains, creating major traffic jams, blocked roads, accidents and whatever else can be associated with alien weather.

What I had never seen before I got here quite a few lents ago was that people were building snowmen and putting them on their bonnets or in the back of their bakkies (pick-ups). Really cute.

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 3

Hmmmm.... someone discovered DBCC TIMEWARP.

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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004514 More actions · Answer 4

This is what snow in Johannesburg looks like

http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/2007/06/27/snow-in-johannesburg.aspx

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 5

That's cool and sort of lovely, Gail. Thanks for sharing.

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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

Jeremy Brown SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4223 More actions · Answer 6

Bob Hovious (5/5/2009)
Hmmmm.... someone discovered DBCC TIMEWARP.

Hehe, ok I get it.

Yeah and those snow pictures are pretty!

Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 7

The image was blocked by our Firewall.. #@$#%$##%$%$

-Roy

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738643 More actions · Answer 8

Well here's a nice April Sat morning in Denver:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8hTidvPiTuU/SgCqmUxlXLI/AAAAAAAAAiI/pxf8WYs9zH0/s512/Apr_snow_a.jpg

And here's lunchtime:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8hTidvPiTuU/SgCqmB_QA8I/AAAAAAAAAiA/VMCiDCZDEa0/apr_snow3.jpg

And here's late afternoon:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8hTidvPiTuU/SgCqlzeT1vI/AAAAAAAAAh4/XmnjzlFDV0w/apr_snow2.jpg

It was gone by Monday.

steve smith-401573 SSChampion Points: 10889 More actions · Answer 9

GilaMonster (5/5/2009)
This is what snow in Johannesburg looks like
http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/2007/06/27/snow-in-johannesburg.aspx

"codingsanity" - sounds like an oxymoron. Sanity is what you have BEFORE coding. If you're lucky, you still have a shred left after coding. Artificial languages for artificers?

Nice pix - is that YOUR car, Gail?

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004514 More actions · Answer 10

steve smith (5/5/2009)
Nice pix - is that YOUR car, Gail?

No. That's not my blog I linked to.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004514 More actions · Answer 11

Steve Jones - Editor (5/5/2009)
Well here's a nice April Sat morning in Denver:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8hTidvPiTuU/SgCqmUxlXLI/AAAAAAAAAiI/pxf8WYs9zH0/s512/Apr_snow_a.jpg
And here's lunchtime:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8hTidvPiTuU/SgCqmB_QA8I/AAAAAAAAAiA/VMCiDCZDEa0/apr_snow3.jpg
And here's late afternoon:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8hTidvPiTuU/SgCqlzeT1vI/AAAAAAAAAh4/XmnjzlFDV0w/apr_snow2.jpg
It was gone by Monday.

Cold, cold, cold.

Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 12

Grant Fritchey (5/5/2009)
RBarryYoung (5/5/2009)
Alvin Ramard (5/5/2009)
David Burrows (5/5/2009)
Then you have those that would bite the hand that is trying to feed them.
Lucky for the OP that is was not Jeff, Pork Chops at the ready in both hands methinks :laugh:
Given the current situation with the swine flu, are we allowed to throw pork chops?
😀
Cooked is fine. Raw is right out though. :sick:
I thought Jeff took right out of the freezer for maximum impact.

Heh... like anything else, "It Depends". 😛

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 13

Grant Fritchey (5/5/2009)
RBarryYoung (5/5/2009)
Alvin Ramard (5/5/2009)
David Burrows (5/5/2009)
Then you have those that would bite the hand that is trying to feed them.
Lucky for the OP that is was not Jeff, Pork Chops at the ready in both hands methinks :laugh:
Given the current situation with the swine flu, are we allowed to throw pork chops?
😀
Cooked is fine. Raw is right out though. :sick:
I thought Jeff took right out of the freezer for maximum impact.

Heh... I looked at the post. You cannot pork chop that which is not there either in mind, body, or spirit.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 14

Steve Jones - Editor (5/5/2009)
Well here's a nice April Sat morning in Denver:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8hTidvPiTuU/SgCqmUxlXLI/AAAAAAAAAiI/pxf8WYs9zH0/s512/Apr_snow_a.jpg
And here's lunchtime:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8hTidvPiTuU/SgCqmB_QA8I/AAAAAAAAAiA/VMCiDCZDEa0/apr_snow3.jpg
And here's late afternoon:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8hTidvPiTuU/SgCqlzeT1vI/AAAAAAAAAh4/XmnjzlFDV0w/apr_snow2.jpg
It was gone by Monday.

Yep, just confirms what I said, the snow just doesn't stay around. I Love Colorado!

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 15

I refuse to post a link, but I really want to know what our favorite PhD candadate learned while in school for his current degrees.

I'm also curious how he manages to keep his job, besides the help he gets from SSC.