Are the posted questions getting worse?
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I called him out on the fact that he had 4 threads asking exactly the same thing - he didn't like it
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/ssrs-rendering-format-excel-change -- I made the comment on this one
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/changing-excel-download-rendering-format
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/changing-the-excel-rendering-format
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/change-excel-download-column-format-to-text
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Sounds like he doesn't deserve the help.
- frederico_fonseca wrote:
I called him out on the fact that he had 4 threads asking exactly the same thing - he didn't like it
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/ssrs-rendering-format-excel-change -- I made the comment on this one https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/changing-excel-download-rendering-format https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/changing-the-excel-rendering-format https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/change-excel-download-column-format-to-text
Didn't do a deep dive but at least one of those is unanswered from over a year ago. I can't blame the guy for asking again.
--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 wrote:frederico_fonseca wrote:
I called him out on the fact that he had 4 threads asking exactly the same thing - he didn't like it
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/ssrs-rendering-format-excel-change -- I made the comment on this one https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/changing-excel-download-rendering-format https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/changing-the-excel-rendering-format https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/change-excel-download-column-format-to-text
Didn't do a deep dive but at least one of those is unanswered from over a year ago. I can't blame the guy for asking again.
they were (in date order, so reverse of the above) in
5 Oct 2021
8 Dec 2021
10 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022
so all very near - and 2 of them on same day (2 minute interval).
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Yep... and he never got an answer to his question on any of those. On one of the earlier ones, he did a work around by using VBA , but that's not what he was looking for in any of his posts. Some "forgiveness" seems appropriate here. 😛
--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) -
The joy of assembling a new pc and it boots
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Of course not. It never works the first time. Usually I need to unplug and replug something.
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For Jeff, because I was having fun...
- Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
Of course not. It never works the first time. Usually I need to unplug and replug something.
Cry last time I rebuilt my computer I used an old windows install(it should just update to the newest version after installing right?) and it would install fine, then never boot again, reseated everything multiple times before figuring it out....
- ZZartin wrote:Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
Of course not. It never works the first time. Usually I need to unplug and replug something.
Cry last time I rebuilt my computer I used an old windows install(it should just update to the newest version after installing right?) and it would install fine, then never boot again, reseated everything multiple times before figuring it out....
The last time I built my own PC was with a Cyrix processor.
Michael L John
If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
To properly post on a forum:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/61537/ - Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:
For Jeff, because I was having fun...
Heh... if you want to have some real fun, have someone successfully answer the question and then look them square in the face and ask them, "Ok... but what would you do tomorrow"? 😀 😀 😀 When they ask what I mean, point out that their ChatGTP answer just recommend using a VARCHAR() column on a fixed width result that will never change. 😀
And then ask them to add a space after that string and see what they say. You know... maybe save a couple o' clock cycles by using a CHAR(20), instead? 😀
That's a part of the why I love that question... so many different tangents to go down from there.
Heh... and thanks for thinking of me.
--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) -
At first it would overheat because the connection between the watercooler and its controller got loose. Long live the internet for instructions.
Also had some fun misreading the windows license a few times and the network driver wouldn't install.
Now, it's humming along nicely
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Note I teach/tutor for free and have an online Discord server with 80 plus students at verying levels of expertise. My first motto is (and all my students know it) that the only stupid/dumb/bad question for someone seeking knowledge is the question they chose not to ask. That being said, I also try to teach my students by teaching them to fish rather than just giving them a fish. That way I teach them for a lifetime rather than just a day.
Similar means can be done on forums such as this by outlining the potential solutions and/or pointing someone where to look for quality answers. Keep in mind that just because you can google it does not make it a correct answers. I have encountered more than one situation where wanna-be-know-it-alls are copying wrong answers to questions and propogating them as the solution. Then alot of these wrong answers get out there as correct answers and googling it gives you the wrong answer. Which may or may not even work for you and you are lucky if it does not work because usually the wrong answer being propogated is a sleeper issue waiting to spring on you later on.
So that being said, always try to respond respectfully to potential students as those you teach well are also those that learn from their students. It is a two way street. Further if you phrase your answers in a manner that is meant to educate rather than just give them the straight answer you are doing them a service by making them think and understand what it is they are implementing. So keep up the good work and persevere if you help even a single individual improve you have done more than many others do in their lifetime.
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