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I don't know whether Tom does all of the asktom site on his
own time, but I doubt it.
His website doesn't do much to hurt sales of his book, so he also has a greater financial interest. Money is a good motivator.
Tom is also a VP at Oracle, and does some pretty good PR for his employer via his web site. I imagine he is able to spend more time on the job answering questions than what would be practical for most people on this list.
Many of us answer questions here for a variety of reasons.
Here's my list of reasons:
The last one covers many more threads than I could possibly be involved in, so I try to limit it to those that will be of use to me somehow.
Jared
Rajesh.Rao_at_jpmchase.com
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You guys are mean !!!!!! Tom Kyte would have given me 10 ways of writing
the statement, would have traced every one of them under different
versions
and on different platforms, pointed out the number of logical reads,
elapsed time, et all, and told me which one is better.
Regards
Raj
Jared.Still_at_ra
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01:54 PM
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to ORACLE-L
What he said.
Mladen Gogala
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10/10/2003 09:14 AM
Here is the reason for that: this list would not be useful to
me if it was devoted to answering beginner's questions. List
would get flooded, I would stop reading as would many other
people. It has already happened. This list is a very valuable resource
to me and I would hate to lose it to the people asking things
like how to set prompt in sqlplus. Usenet groups are the proper place
for that.
People can learn the basics by reading books and manuals and I don't
have much sympathy for the people who don't want to read but post their
questions to this list instead. I am trying to help when I think that
help is needed, but I am also trying to discourage trivial questions
asked for 10th time.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not apologizing for my actions, I'm just
explaining them. This is my last reply in this thread because I don't
intend to create a flame war on this list. I'll surround myself with
an SEP field and vanish from sight.
the basic stuff by reading manuals
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 11:39, Rick_Cale_at_teamhealth.com wrote:
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> Ahhh!!! there is no "elite" and the question was trivial. The great and
> powerful has spoken, perhaps all questions should be filtered
> your way for classification. I can assure nothing on this forum is
worthy
> of becoming "Testy", merely trying to provide a solution for
> someone who needed help and of course one must stand their ground when
> necessary.
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> Mladen Gogala
> <mladen_at_wangtradi To: Multiple
recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> ng.com> cc:
> Sent by: Subject: RE: Using ' in
Update statement
> ml-errors_at_fatcity
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> 10/10/2003 10:19
> AM
> Please respond to
> ORACLE-L
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> There is no "elite" here, but this was a trivial question which
> I answered by listing manuals in which the answer could be found.
> I was asked for clarification of my reply, so I provided the
> clarification. No need to get testy about it.
>
> On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 08:54, Mercadante, Thomas F wrote:
> > Naaa. He's an equal opportunity ball-buster.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:54 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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> > Hamid started his question
> > How can I user comma " ' " in my update statement?
> >
> > I am merely correcting his mistake and then providing a solution.
> > Wow, what a concept on a Oracle Listserv site design for that very
> purpose.
> > Just curious, Would you have answered in the same way if it had been
> asked
> > by one of
> > the "elite"?
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> > Mladen Gogala
> >
> > <mladen_at_wangtradi To: Multiple
> recipients
> > of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > ng.com> cc:
> >
> > Sent by: Subject: Re: Using '
in
> > Update statement
> > ml-errors_at_fatcity
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> > .com
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> > 10/09/2003 05:09
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> > PM
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> > Please respond to
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> > ORACLE-L
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> > I didn't mean quote, I meant "RTFM".
> > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 16:34, Rick_Cale_at_teamhealth.com wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I assume you mean quote
> > >
> > > update tablea set fielda =' james'ste Camp 'first,'sec' '
> > >
> > > update tablea set fielda =' james''ste Camp ''first,''sec'' ';
> > >
> > > Just use 2 single quotes
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > > Mladen Gogala
> >
> > > <mladen_at_wangtradi To: Multiple
> > recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > > ng.com> cc:
> >
> > > Sent by: Subject: Re: Using '
in
> > Update statement
> > > ml-errors_at_fatcity
> >
> > > .com
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> > > 10/09/2003 02:29
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> > > PM
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> > > Please respond to
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> > > ORACLE-L
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> > >
> > > It's in the documentation. Start with the concepts manual, then
> SQL*Plus
> > > manual and SQL reference. I'm sure that you'll run across the answer
> > > because that's where I have found the answer to the very same
question.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 13:59, Hamid Alavi wrote:
> > > > List,
> > > >
> > > > How can I user comma " ' " in my update statement?
> > > >
> > > > update tablea set fielda =' james'ste Camp 'first,'sec' '
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Hamid Alavi
> > > >
> > > > Office : 818-737-0526
> > > > Cell phone : 818-416-5095
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