Re: What is a good blocksize to use.

"Karsten Farell" <kfarrell_at_medimpact.com> wrote in message news:Qv4k9.1222$0N5.27999503_at_newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> While I agree in principle (students will not learn if we do everything
> for them), I see far too many put-downs, rather than helpful guidance
> when someone is suspected of being a student. My mother taught me that
> when I don't know for sure, to assume the best about people, not to
> assume they are just a bunch of lazy, good-for-nothing students looking
> for the easy way out. Maybe in an ideal world, those kind of students
> would be found out and their message never get posted.
>
> I would hate to think that if I asked a question, giving a hypothetical
> table (since mose people would have to know a lot more about the
> industry I'm in to understand what kind of data I store in my
> Member_Custom_Fields table) ... well, you get my point. I might post a
> message using something more familiar - maybe a Courses table - and have
> everyone assume I'm just a free-loading student. Though I'd give up all
> my Oracle DBA experience to be that young again, it wouldn't be fair to
> assume I was *only* hoping for someone to do my homework.
>
> And BTW, even with 15 years as an Oracle DBA, I don't think I yet know
> the 50% you implied. :) But hey, I do know FORTRAN and COBOL, though it
> was in a previous lifetime (1966+) as a developer.
>

Karsten,

Rather well put, IMHO.

Regards,
Paul Received on Tue Sep 24 2002 - 17:01:39 CDT