Re: Got a question regarding newbies

[Quoted] 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 [Quoted] 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 [Quoted] 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 [Quoted] 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 - 19:08:42 CET