How Not To Ask A Question
Do you think it's possible that this questioner is being just a little broad in the advice he/she is requesting? Maybe just a shade optimistic?
posted by David Aldridge @ 3:02 PM
Thursday, August 11, 2005
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8 Comments:
I sooooo love these "questions" that just "happen" to match such a broad span of EXACTLY the kind of info to be found in a given site...
Reminds me of the "letters to the editor" sections in second rate mags/papers: fake, most of them.
Yes, the questions range from the sweepingly broad to the very precise.
School assignments?
But the best of it:
In one of the links provided by JKB that points to 'Compiled PL/SQL by Donald K. Burleson' (http://www.praetoriate.com/oracle_tips_compiled_plsql.htm) the man says about native compilation in 9i:
"To turn native compilation on, you need to issue the following statement:
ALTER SESSION SET plsql_compiler_switches=NATIVE;"
instead of
ALTER SESSION SET plsql_compiler_flags=NATIVE;
Sad, but true.
Cheers.
Carlos.
Looks like something someone just cut and pasted off of a job requirement almost.
So often I see on different forums people asking for help who haven't even taken the time to look for the answers themselfs.
Something about giving a person a "fish" comes to mind.
Nuno Souto said...
I sooooo love these "questions" that just "happen" to match such a broad span of EXACTLY the kind of info to be found in a given site...
Nah, he wouldn't stoop that low, would he? ;)
Actually I'd thought DKB would have told the OP that s/he cannot expect to get his homework done for him/her. He actually went through and provide links to various sites (including Oracle's) although most of them are links to his own set of sites & books.
Me think that the most important document that was missed was the Oracle Server Concepts Manual.
+1 for the fish thought, and +1 for the Concepts Guide.
Obviously a lot of effort went into answering the questions, but a lot of the referenced links seemed to be a shade off-topic to me,
david aldridge said...Obviously a lot of effort went into answering the questions, but a lot of the referenced links seemed to be a shade off-topic to me,
Yeah, but that has always been the way with DKB. He provide links to his books/sites even when it is not relevant to the questions asked.
"He provide links to his books/sites even when it is not relevant to the questions asked."
Well, it's one way to get his site up at google's rankings...
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