Re: Rename a Oracle table

From: Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:17:47 +0200
Message-ID: <apntk6$s9o$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net>

Tim Kearsley wrote:

>> People like that, do deserve the odd lead pipe in the face.

>
> A bit aggressive aren't you? Would you have appreciated "the odd lead
> pipe in the face" when you were on the learning path?

Ah.. so Tim, you have never met a SEP'er before? We of the Scorched Earth party are renowned for our lead pipes. As our great leader put it, there is not problem that can not be solved, with the careful, dedicated, and focussed application of pure mindless and extreme violence.. using lead pipes of course.

> What has all that got to do with the point? The point is, if you
> don't like a question that somebody has posted then DON'T ANSWER!!

Okay, so let me get this right. It is okay for some clueless lazy bugger to pull his finger from his <insert applicable orafice here> to post a very basic and simple question, without bothering to even RTFM..

But it is not okay for me to reply with a RTFM to such a posting?

> Don't clog everything up further by having tantrums and being rude to
> people. It achieves nothing except perhaps tell the rest of us useful
> information about your personality.

So friggen what! Here, have all the useful information about my personality you want. And if you do manage to make a million from it, I want 10% commission.

>> A person that runs to this newsgroup when he does not know how to rename
>> a table, is FRIGGEN LAZY. Period.

>
> Well, if they post to this newsgroup and no-one answers them then
> they'll go and read a book.

Nope. They will post again. And again. You have not been around Usenet very long, have you?

> And where do YOU draw the line between what's a "valid" question for
> this newsgroup and what isn't? And is that the same line as
> Sybrand's, or mine, or any of the other people, from beginner to
> expert, who use this group?

The one with the biggest dick draws the line. Unless you can prove that you are better endowed that either me or Sybrand..? You wanted to change this into one of the most common activities on Usenet, a Pissing Contest, right?

If you actually did bother to read what I wrote in this thread Tim, you would have seen that it is not the question that matters to me, but the effort of the person in answering the question.

So please read again. I'm going to type extra slowly so you can follow it and understand.

I do mind a "how do I rename a table" question. That shows a lazy bugger that wants to be spoon fed solutions.

I do not mind a "how do I rename a table, I could not find the answer in the PL/SQL manual". That shows me a person who tried and made a honest novice mixup between the PL/SQL and SQL manuals.

> The newsgroup is bigger than any one individual using it

Except for those with big dicks. We tend to win Usenet Pissing Contests.

> - don't impose your standards on everyone else. What's trivial to
> you may be hard work to someone else.

You honestly should rather point your newsreader at alt.politics.equality instead.

--
Billy

Received on Wed Oct 30 2002 - 00:17:47 CST