Re: Didn't mean to ruffle any feathers

All good points Rauf... but I never expected anyone to do anything they didn't feel the need to do OR the time to do. As I said before, I would rather my post go without responses then to get responses that do little to solve the problem at hand.

If I could have paid to have someone come in and do the work I would have - just not my call.

Vladimir DID take the time to respond and not critisize and for that I thank him. I think in the end that is my point, answer the post as best you can (ability, interest, or time permitting) or just skip it.

I can tell you that I am glad my Oracle days are over. I needed help and really couldn't get any and I have honestly found the Oracle crowd to be considerable less helpful than your conterparts in SQL Server. In the end I can't say what was worse, asking for help or trying to figure out how you guys do joins (which I did manage to knock out - but there was no way I was coming here to ask) on my own.

"Rauf Sarwar" <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:92eeeff0.0301041817.5119000e_at_posting.google.com...
> "George" <junk_at_ixsis.com> wrote in message
news:<v1HR9.429446$pN3.47838_at_sccrnsc03>...
>
> > > Wonderful! Thanks
> > >
> > > Now this opens a whole new can of worms for me.
> > >
> > > The first one to come to mind is the select * statement. I am
assuming that
> > > this can be a lengthy operation if the table has many fields and
modifying
> > > the table later would rise cause to modify all procedures that contain
a
> > > select * from the modified table.
> > >
> > > Also how then does the procedure return records to the client, or does
it
> > > not? I then surmize that using procedures to return records to the
client is
> > > might not be the prefered method but rather a view?
>
> This is your follow up post most probably everyone is referring to.
> Your initial post was answered adequately with corrected code.
> However, even with few hours on hand, and the fact that it takes few
> hours for a post to be posted and replied to, you still wanted to
> parse out in depth why a certain code is used and why not something
> else... thus resulting in some of the replies that you recieved.
>
> > Sorry to inform you but the only system in our facility with any Oracle
> > access did NOT have the docs installed. As far as the 'I dont have
time'
> > excuse, I guess you work in an environment where you can just get up, go
to
> > a book store, spend the day reading and come back just in time to do the
> > whole project. You must have missed the key point to my dilema. I had
about
> > 6 hours do get this done. No warning, no prep, no resources, no manuals,
no
> > web access and no experience with Oracle.
> >
> > I turned to the only place I could for help and that help was for the
most
> > part not very helpful. Tell me, what would you do in my situation?
>
> We all get short deadlines. Sometimes because of irrational managers
> (as in your case) but it is expected that job must be done by the
> deadline. You scramble to get the job done and find help from
> wherever... *BUT* I am sure you do not expect from people on this NG
> to take time out from their schedule to reply *in detail* to a follow
> up post which clearly should be referenced in the SQL manual and
> Oracle docs after you meet your deadline.... i.e. unless you want to
> pay an hourly rate to buy services of some of the people here.
>
> Regards
> /Rauf Sarwar
Received on Sat Jan 04 2003 - 23:00:26 CST