July 3, 2009 at 12:01 am
Paul White (7/2/2009)
Lynn Pettis (7/2/2009)
Paul White, Love your new avatar!RBARry's change of avatar caused an imbalance in the force,which has now been corrected 🙂
edit: previous reply made little sense
Unh, unh, we don't make that joke. Them's is fightin' words. 😛
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July 3, 2009 at 12:10 am
Uh, ... little help here Steve? Seems like I got 3 more posts than I needed...
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Proactive Performance Solutions, Inc. [/font][font="Verdana"] "Performance is our middle name."[/font]
July 3, 2009 at 12:14 am
Lynn Pettis (7/2/2009)
RBarryYoung (7/2/2009)
Lynn Pettis (6/30/2009)
Bored here at work today. I have things to do, but just can't get motivated.
Bored? Dude, you did like 400 over the past week!
Just a little. But's that's okay, I'm sure you'll also catch back up with me the week of the 13th, as I'll be be doing the ref thing that week at the PPI being held at the Air Force Acedemy that week. It is a 7 day long Soccer Tournament for U11 through U18 teams.
And, Oh yeah, I'll be on vacation all nest week, so there's very little chance that I'll catch you anytime soon, Lynne. 🙂
[font="Times New Roman"]-- RBarryYoung[/font], [font="Times New Roman"] (302)375-0451[/font] blog: MovingSQL.com, Twitter: @RBarryYoung[font="Arial Black"]
Proactive Performance Solutions, Inc. [/font][font="Verdana"] "Performance is our middle name."[/font]
July 3, 2009 at 12:15 am
RBarryYoung (7/3/2009)
Uh, ... little help here Steve? Seems like I got 3 more posts than I needed...
Steve's on vacation. Will be back sunday
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
July 3, 2009 at 12:16 am
Well, he was quick to set the record straight, but I'm still pissed.
July 3, 2009 at 12:20 am
Lynn Pettis (7/2/2009)
Okay, now he has crossed the line!! Who the hell does he think he is calling me a liar!!!!
I read that post as him apologising to you for making a mistake. The comma's missing, so there's no way to tell if it was intended as
"Sorry, Lynn made a mistake"
or
"Sorry Lynn, made a mistake"
I prefer to assume the less 'aggressive' of options when there's more than one way to read a post. Especially from people who either speak English as a second (third, fourth) language and from those who use over-shortened language constructs.
I really think you need a vacation. Stuff here appears to be getting to you far more than it used to.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
July 3, 2009 at 12:25 am
GilaMonster (7/3/2009)
Lynn Pettis (7/2/2009)
Okay, now he has crossed the line!! Who the hell does he think he is calling me a liar!!!!I read that post as him apologising to you for making a mistake. The comma's missing, so there's no way to tell if it was intended as
"Sorry, Lynn made a mistake"
or
"Sorry Lynn, made a mistake"
I prefer to assume the less 'aggressive' of options when there's more than one way to read a post. Especially from people who either speak English as a second (third, fourth) language and from those who use over-shortened language constructs.
I really think you need a vacation. Stuff here appears to be getting to you far more than it used to.
Hard to agree here considering an earlier post in the thread where he said, and I quote, "No my date datatype is "datetime" " refering back to the earlier post where he had changed his code AFTER I had posted a solution.
July 3, 2009 at 12:32 am
RBarryYoung (7/3/2009)
Lynn Pettis (7/2/2009)
RBarryYoung (7/2/2009)
Lynn Pettis (6/30/2009)
Bored here at work today. I have things to do, but just can't get motivated.
Bored? Dude, you did like 400 over the past week!
Just a little. But's that's okay, I'm sure you'll also catch back up with me the week of the 13th, as I'll be be doing the ref thing that week at the PPI being held at the Air Force Acedemy that week. It is a 7 day long Soccer Tournament for U11 through U18 teams.
And, Oh yeah, I'll be on vacation all nest week, so there's very little chance that I'll catch you anytime soon, Lynne. 🙂
Barry, one tiny thing please, drop the "e" on my name, it is Lynn. 😉
July 3, 2009 at 1:05 am
Maybe I am letting things get to me more right now, but in this case I really don't think so.
It's just how Eswin changed things and tried to make it look like I hadn't met his requirements initially. Perhaps, instead of say "no my date data type is datetime" and had said, okay, but let's change the requirements a bit, now how would you do it. Then none of this would have occurred. And to start off the post with "are you pulling my leg"? Please, I really felt like he was trying to make me look like I wasn't working with him to help solve a problem.
July 3, 2009 at 1:42 am
Lynn Pettis (7/3/2009)
Maybe I am letting things get to me more right now, but in this case I really don't think so.
It's more a general impression across several threads than just this one.
It's just how Eswin changed things and tried to make it look like I hadn't met his requirements initially. Perhaps, instead of say "no my date data type is datetime" and had said, okay, but let's change the requirements a bit, now how would you do it.
I don't think that was his intention.
He's very 'casual' about the english language in most threads (don't know if he's English first language or not), and shortens his writing to the point that there are several interpretations when he writes stuff. My feeling is that he meant 'No, oops, sorry, the data type is datetime', but he leaves out all the 'unnecessary' words and it comes out in a way that's completely misinterpretable.
It's the kinda thing some people do when they start online. They type as they would speak, but all the body language, intonation, etc is missing and so half the meaning is lost.
A good friend of mine was like that when she started on chat. She typed as she would have spoken to someone and a couple times I read the meaning wrong and got angry, she couldn't understand why because she hadn't meant to be offensive. She learnt better, fairly quickly.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
July 3, 2009 at 3:11 am
Generally i try to 'teach a man to fish'.
But really, come on give it a try.....
July 3, 2009 at 3:14 am
@Barry: Good to see you're back and nice new avatar!
@Lynn: Congratulation to >8000!
@paul-2: Congratulation to >1000, didn't see this before, now you can call your self a guru :-D. Your new avatar really made me laughing! First I saw Barry changed his, my first thought was the imbalance of the force... Two more clicks and everything was fine. 😛
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July 3, 2009 at 5:47 am
Dave Ballantyne (7/3/2009)
Generally i try to 'teach a man to fish'.But really, come on give it a try.....
Well Dave, it seems that you did help him. http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost746898.aspx
Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes
July 3, 2009 at 8:47 am
WayneS (7/3/2009)
Well Dave, it seems that you did help him. http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost746898.aspx
Looking forward to when he moves on to "Chapter 2 - The Insert Statement " 🙂
July 3, 2009 at 8:56 am
You laugh. I was speaking with someone recently and he said that he and his team do some SQL development, but nothing complex, no joins or anything.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
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