Re: Got a question regarding newbies

Probably <OT> and don't have qualifications to comment in this thread-- since I am a newbie.

However, I just wanted to note that I appreciate your help. I don't post much, because I do make a point of finding the answer first elsewhere, including the new post in the newsgroup.

Questions do get repetitive and understand that you might not have the time to answer them. Of course, every one has an option of not answering, but keep in mind that you help some of us.

Finally, I am a contributor to FAQTS.com -- knowledge base for PHP questions. It allows people to put questions and answers of simple questions about a software (could be Oracle) Then people can respond or find answers with their search engine.

Its idea is not to take emails/postings automatically but manually post responses to avoid all the repetition of asking/answering the same questions over and over again.

Since I am starting a Oracle DBA career, I was asked to start a knowledge base. However, I had my doubts since Oracle is well supported elsewhere/everywhere.

If you guys are interested, we could organize one and when newbie questions arise, you can send them to the page with all the answers at the FAQTS, without having to retype it. I could learn most of it in the process.

Let me know if you are interested. If you reply, send a cc to me personally.

Andrew Sheh
ashea_at_dmetechnologies.com

kal121_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> If one does not want to answer newbie questions, one does not *have* to
> answer newbie questions. By their very nature, newbies do not know
> enough about the documentation to know where to find the answers, that's
> why the come to the newsgroups. Apparently the people who have the time
> to post articles like this one have the time to answer stupid newbie
> questions. :-) I've always enjoyed helping people - why do some DBA's
> insist upon having an "attitude" about people who know less than they
> do? Learning *where* to find the answers is part of our skill set. Be
> happy that you live in a time and place where you can make lots of money
> being a DBA, enjoy prestige in your career, etc. You don't need to put
> others down in the process.
>
> In article <38904321.73D4B53F_at_Unforgetable.com>,
> Kenneth C Stahl <BlueSax_at_Unforgetable.com> wrote:
> > I've been on this newsgroup for quite some time and have a couple
> > questions.
> >
> > Why is it that every newbie on the oracle newsgroups automatically
 post a
> > message asking for a way to determine the number of rows in a table
 without
> > using count()?
> >
> > Why is it that every newbie also seems to automatically ask how to
 create a
> > temp table in Oracle?
> >
> > It seems that the newsgroup spends an inordinate amount of time on
 these
> > two issues and that newbies never read the thousands of messages on
 the
> > subject before they post their own query.
> >
>
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Received on Thu Mar 16 2000 - 00:00:00 CST