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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Not quite. This is post 1993.

    😉

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob Hovious (2/25/2009)


    I don't think arguing best practices for formatting of code is a productive use of our time.

    (Forgive me Lynn, but in the past year...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (2/25/2009)


    Lynn,

    I think it's a balance here that experts have to strive for. Sure we want to educate, and get people to think for themselves, but...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I think the best we can do is to try and lead by example. Jeff's code is an excellent example of how code should be written. Do I...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Max (2/25/2009)


    Welcome to megalomaniacs central, folks!

    Don't bother us with your petty sql statements, do not ask us questions without reading the dozen or so best practice documents; blogs and forums...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob Hovious (2/25/2009)


    Don't you get the impression sometimes that the OP's want his query / sproc / function whatever to look as big and complicated as possible?

    When I see big...

  • RE: get parent and all of its child records

    dua_anshu (2/25/2009)


    This is the scenario:

    I have a table called compliants where we store a

    compliant (parent records) and issues (child records) for each complaint

    eg:

    compliantid Title status category type childid...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jack Corbett (2/25/2009)


    Lynn Pettis (2/25/2009)


    As I do use a case-sensitive collation, it forces me to be consistant with naming of variables, tables, columns, etc.

    Okay, so I have to be honest...

  • RE: New views do not come across in backup

    steve smith (2/25/2009)


    All,

    Thank you for the responses and suggestions. When I checked the restore this morning, the database was properly synchronized and all the views appeared as expected. ...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    What is "best practices" actually? What is "best" today may not be "best" a week, or month, or year from now.

    As to using schema qualifiers or table aliases in...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Michael Valentine Jones (2/24/2009)


    Has anyone started an "Are the posts on the 'Are the posted questions getting worse?' thread getting worse" thread yet?

    Not yet, but I wouldn't be...

  • RE: Can not save backup file

    James Goodwin (2/24/2009)


    I would like to mention to those who are recommending a local backup first that not everyone has enough drive space on the server to hold their complete...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (2/24/2009)


    Yesterday was an interesting day on here. I don't think any of the posters were picked on, except for a quick reference to a White.house employee.

    I believe...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob: Not really. Although a Star Wars fan, I have never had the opportunity to attend one of their conventions (sad, but true).

  • RE: Physical join

    Good question, made me think a bit before answering, and i managed to get it right!

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