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karthik M

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January 4, 2008 at 2:05 am

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Most people from this site are using 'BTW(By The Way)' when they answering for any post.
Actually, i want to know where exactly we need to use this BTW.
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karthik M One Orange Chip Points: 29139 More actions · Answer 1

Hi Steve,

Often you are talking about 'PASS CONFERENCE' or 'SUMMIT....'.

What does it?

karthik

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398679 More actions · Answer 2

PASS is the Professional Association for SQL Server. They have an annual get together called the PASS Summit. This year it will be in November in Seattle. They also have special interest groups online that you can take part in and they act as an umbrella organization for local user groups providing speakers, infrastructure and communication. It's a great organization and taking part is a wonderful way to network with the leading lights of the industry.

Disclosure: I'm a volunteer for the organization, so I'm biased.

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Sarah Dutkiewicz SSCommitted Points: 1870 More actions · Answer 3

As for BTW, I think it depends on the person who's writing the response. Some people use common online acronyms in their typing frequently, and other people may not use them as much.

You can find more on some of these here:

http://www.wikihow.com/Understand-Chat-Acronyms

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 4

karthikeyan (1/4/2008)
Actually, i want to know where exactly we need to use this BTW.

You've probably seen it in my posts. It's just the way I tend to write. You don't have to use it, it's just a construct of the english language.

Generally it indicates that what follows is not related to the question at hand, but is worth mentioning.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398679 More actions · Answer 5

Just remember that short-hand notation like BTW, OTOH, IIRC, are for very informal communication. You can use them on line, but you wouldn't want them in formal documentation, requests for a raise to the boss, things like that.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003851 More actions · Answer 6

OIDK... WFM! 😛

--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:
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Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398679 More actions · Answer 7

BOHICA

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January 6, 2008 at 4:54 pm

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ROFL

karthik M One Orange Chip Points: 29139 More actions · Answer 9

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January 10, 2008 at 1:53 am

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LOL.

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Sarah Dutkiewicz SSCommitted Points: 1870 More actions · Answer 10

A couple others that might not be on there but that you might hear from the technical support crowd:

- PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair

- PICNIC: Problem In Chair Not In Computer

majorbloodnock SSCrazy Eights Points: 9389 More actions · Answer 11

Sarah Dutkiewicz (1/10/2008)
A couple others that might not be on there but that you might hear from the technical support crowd:
- PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
- PICNIC: Problem In Chair Not In Computer

..along with:

- ID-ten-T (otherwise written as id10t)

- a layer-8 issue (reference to the OSI 7 layer model, where the "next" layer up is and can only be the user)

Semper in excretia, suus solum profundum variat

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January 11, 2008 at 1:56 am

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How about this?

Intel inside, idiot outside.