Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Jeff Moden wrote:

    Brandie Tarvin wrote:

    Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:

    Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉

    Return Porkchop Output

    EDIT: Or Rebounding Porkchop Objective?

    Raw Porkchop Onslaught

    Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
    Anon.

  • Michael, I feel your pain. I hope Santa brings you a large porkchop launcher to suitably admonish all involved.

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  • David Burrows wrote:

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    Brandie Tarvin wrote:

    Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:

    Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉

    Return Porkchop Output

    EDIT: Or Rebounding Porkchop Objective?

    Raw Porkchop Onslaught

    THIS!!!!!

    @=)

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  • Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:

    One has to laugh, RTO no longer stands for Recovery Time Objective, now it means Return To Office 😎

    Those ever-changing meanings of common TLAs are giving me a headache.

    Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉

    Rapidly Progressing Officiousness (as in "I can't work with Brian. He has a bad case of RPO!")

    Roving Policy Offender (as in "Don't hire Brian. He is the quintessential RPO!")

    Really Pungent Odour (as in "The cheese was good, but gosh it had RPO!")

     

    If we stay in management speak then perhaps RPO="Return Policy Objective"?

    Fake memo from the CEO to the CTO: "I must insist that our employees RTO. After all our RPO is to get more productive through better hands-on monitoring of their efficiency and dedication, which we can only do by getting them to RTO, IMO. No more watching TV or doing laundry instead of doing the job they're paid for! If they don't want to RTO, get rid of them and hire someones that will! Only the application of RTO will allow us to meet the RPO. Get it done!"

    🙂

    • This reply was modified 2 months ago by  kaj. Reason: Typo
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  • Happy New Year to all of you default blame acceptors!

     

    Since we just went through a series of what all RTO stands for, how about folks chiming in with what DBA stands for?

    First up, as I used it above: Default Blame Acceptor

    Wayne
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
    Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes


    If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!
    Links:
    For better assistance in answering your questions
    Performance Problems
    Common date/time routines
    Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

  • WayneS wrote:

    Happy New Year to all of you default blame acceptors!

    Since we just went through a series of what all RTO stands for, how about folks chiming in with what DBA stands for?

    First up, as I used it above: Default Blame Acceptor

    Doing Bout Anything

    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/

  • Since MS messed up with performance starting in 2019 and hasn't made it any better in 2022, I sadly pronounce that I Don't Believe Anymore but I keep Doing the Best Anyone can even though MS Drives me Bat5hit All-the-time now.  I also recently learned more about about the odds of getting improvements made... Don't Bother Asking.  They're only going to Do Business As they see fit.

    --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)

  • Happy New Year everyone!

    😎

    DBA means different things to different people;

    Developer: Devil's Bothering Annoyance

    Analyst: Data Botching Aggregation

    Further suggestions anyone?

  • Sooooooo.... something weird is happening on another thread, one I started. Converting job_id to join to another table.

    I had a long PTO break over the holiday, came back and to an email response that stated:

    castleapp10 wrote:

    To convert a job_id and join it to another table, use SQL's JOIN clause. For example:

    SELECT table1.*, table2.*

    FROM table1

    JOIN table2 ON table1.job_id = table2.job_id;

    This will link job_id from both tables and return the relevant data.

    Okay, that looked legit... But when I followed the URL to respond and tell them they were misunderstanding the question, the post had been removed due to being reported as SPAM.

    Happened again today / yesterday afternoon with another email.

    lmc84 wrote:

    To join tables using job_id, ensure both tables have a common column (job_id) with matching data types. Use a SQL query like:

    SELECT t1.*, t2.*

    lmc 8.4

    JOIN table2 t2 ON t1.job_id = t2.job_id;

    Adjust for specific database syntax if needed.

    Follow again to the thread, post has been reported as SPAM and removed. Neither looks like Spam to me. Neither is correctly answering my actual question, but they aren't Spam unless I missed something.

    This concerns me. Are people reporting responses they don't like as Spam simply as a means of censorship? Or was there something attached to these posts that I didn't see?

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  • Brandie, while your email may seem legit, many times those posts have a url that is not visible on your email - that would be a possible reason to report it.

    in some cases the post is also from a "troll" - adds no value to the thread, sometimes posts exactly what was posted before by someone else, and does the same in multiple threads.

    from your post above - castleapp10 and lmc84  user profile shows that they are just a spammers - while only with a single reply (to your thread).

    so if you see a reply on your inbox, and that post is removed then it is spam - not censorship.

  • Brandie Tarvin wrote:

    Sooooooo.... something weird is happening on another thread, one I started. Converting job_id to join to another table.

    I believe that posts are also being removed due to being (or appearing to be) generated by an LLM as well. I've had notifications for posts which when I've seen the email I think "I'm pretty sure that was vomitted out by ChatGPT", and when I click the link they were delete as "Spam".

    The posts you quote aren't particularly long so difficult to tell if they were generated by an LLM (though admittedly they have an LLM "vibe" to them), but I wonder if the user(s) in question posted other material that more obviously LLM generated and so anything recent was assumed to have been as well.

    Thom~

    Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
    Larnu.uk

  • I was actually kind of wondering about the AI issue myself. But I wasn't aware that AI bots were going around posting in random forums. At least, I didn't think they had that functionality yet.

    And I was wondering about possibly inappropriate URLs or images as well. I wasn't sure. Usually the spam I see is much more obviously spam, even in the emails.

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  • AI bots not around - but there are a few posters that think that getting what ChatGPT gives them as an answer to a question is a good thing. its not!! - and depending on the thread and what they post, I, and others, flag those as spam.

  • I agree with Frederico, it's likely people posting from ChaGPT et al on here, but as I've been experimenting with LLMs and Python, I could whip up a python script that likely could post the output from an LLM here in 30 minutes.

  • Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    I agree with Frederico, it's likely people posting from ChaGPT et al on here, but as I've been experimenting with LLMs and Python, I could whip up a python script that likely could post the output from an LLM here in 30 minutes.

    He he, here is an example (from ChatGPT), just copied and pasted Steve's post and ....

    😎

    import requests
    import json

    # The URL of the API endpoint to which you want to send the output.
    api_url = "https://example.com/api/post_output"

    # Example LLM output to be posted
    llm_output = """
    Hello! I'm a large language model. I can help with a wide range of tasks, including answering questions, writing text, and even coding!
    """

    # Optional: Headers for the API request (e.g., authorization, content type)
    headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN", # Replace with your actual token if needed
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
    }

    # Prepare the data to send in the POST request
    data = {
    "message": llm_output,
    "platform": "example_platform", # You can include additional fields as needed
    "user_id": "example_user" # If required
    }

    # Send the POST request to the API
    try:
    response = requests.post(api_url, headers=headers, json=data)

    # Check the response status code
    if response.status_code == 200:
    print("Successfully posted the output!")
    else:
    print(f"Failed to post the output. Status code: {response.status_code}")
    print(f"Response: {response.text}")
    except Exception as e:
    print(f"An error occurred while posting the output: {e}")

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