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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 1

Disadvantages of being an expert... 🙂

Get emails from strangers...:-D

-Roy

Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 2

GilaMonster (12/7/2009)
Hmmm. Just got email from random SSC member. Starts "Help me with this" then goes on for 2 pages. Looked like homework too.
Shift-Delete

Hey I think I got the same email! I feel honored to have been included.:-D

In relation to that I just entered a post in the Suggestions forum, asking for a way to search members by email address, so I don't have to give out my email address if I choose to help. Please comment on it if you like the idea.

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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 3

Roy Ernest (12/7/2009)
Disadvantages of being an expert... 🙂
Get emails from strangers...:-D

That's why I never get emails from strangers.

Uhmmm... wait a moment: I don't even get them from people I know!:hehe:

-- Gianluca Sartori

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 4

Bob Hovious 24601 (12/7/2009)
Now if they had said "Help me with this, please, Expert." that would have been another matter entirely. 😉

Maybe just a extra 2 or 3 seconds before she hit the shift delete! 😉

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 5

Lynn Pettis (12/7/2009)
Bob Hovious 24601 (12/7/2009)
Now if they had said "Help me with this, please, Expert." that would have been another matter entirely. 😉
Maybe just a extra 2 or 3 seconds before she hit the shift delete! 😉

And that would be to see if they also said: "Please hurry"?

🙂

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 399278 More actions · Answer 6

GilaMonster (12/7/2009)
Hmmm. Just got email from random SSC member. Starts "Help me with this" then goes on for 2 pages. Looked like homework too.
Shift-Delete

Got the exact same one. I haven't deleted it yet. I wanted to look through it first, just in case it was somone I knew... it's gone now.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 399278 More actions · Answer 7

Alvin Ramard (12/7/2009)
Lynn Pettis (12/7/2009)
Bob Hovious 24601 (12/7/2009)
Now if they had said "Help me with this, please, Expert." that would have been another matter entirely. 😉
Maybe just a extra 2 or 3 seconds before she hit the shift delete! 😉
And that would be to see if they also said: "Please hurry"?
🙂

Urgent. They're always urgent.

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- Theodore Roosevelt

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004514 More actions · Answer 8

Lynn Pettis (12/7/2009)
Bob Hovious 24601 (12/7/2009)
Now if they had said "Help me with this, please, Expert." that would have been another matter entirely. 😉
Maybe just a extra 2 or 3 seconds before she hit the shift delete! 😉

At most.

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 9

Grant Fritchey (12/7/2009)
Alvin Ramard (12/7/2009)
Lynn Pettis (12/7/2009)
Bob Hovious 24601 (12/7/2009)
Now if they had said "Help me with this, please, Expert." that would have been another matter entirely. 😉
Maybe just a extra 2 or 3 seconds before she hit the shift delete! 😉
And that would be to see if they also said: "Please hurry"?
🙂
Urgent. They're always urgent.

Oops, sorry. I sometimes pick the wrong words when I translate from my native French to English.

🙂

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 10

And that would be to see if they also said: "Please hurry"?

We should test that:

SET STATISTICS TIME ON;

SELECT "Urgent! Please hurry!"

SET STATISTICS TIME OFF;

Hmmmm.... on my laptop it reduces the time to SHIFT-DELETE tremendously. 😛

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 399278 More actions · Answer 11

Alvin Ramard (12/7/2009)
Grant Fritchey (12/7/2009)
Alvin Ramard (12/7/2009)
Lynn Pettis (12/7/2009)
Bob Hovious 24601 (12/7/2009)
Now if they had said "Help me with this, please, Expert." that would have been another matter entirely. 😉
Maybe just a extra 2 or 3 seconds before she hit the shift delete! 😉
And that would be to see if they also said: "Please hurry"?
🙂
Urgent. They're always urgent.
Oops, sorry. I sometimes pick the wrong words when I translate from my native French to English.
🙂

Nah, I'm just peeved because of... well, read for yourself.

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- Theodore Roosevelt

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Bru Medishetty SSC-Insane Points: 23606 More actions · Answer 12

GilaMonster (12/7/2009)
Hmmm. Just got email from random SSC member. Starts "Help me with this" then goes on for 2 pages. Looked like homework too.
Shift-Delete

May be that user is not aware of the existence of the forums in SSC only the experts...:-P

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 13

Grant Fritchey (12/7/2009)
Nah, I'm just peeved because of... well, read for yourself.

I'm just playing along with you guys.

😀

Alvin Ramard
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Mark Cowne One Orange Chip Points: 26983 More actions · Answer 14

GilaMonster (12/7/2009)
Hmmm. Just got email from random SSC member. Starts "Help me with this" then goes on for 2 pages. Looked like homework too.
Shift-Delete

Me too, seems to be this

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic829828-338-1.aspx

Can't help with that one...

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738683 More actions · Answer 15

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