Re: creating a database through odbc?

carpet_at_wanadoo.es (Carsten) wrote in message news:<000601c0fafd$14b68630$e799a8c0_at_dominio1>...
> ODBC? Documentation? Harsh words? VBA?
> What's it all about? Politics?
>
> Shouldn't it rather be easier to establish some simple rules?
>
> The person asking for help:
> 1. should state in a simple way how deep his knowledge of Oracle is (so
> anybody may answer according to the asker's level).
> 2. should mention versions, platforms and other important technical
> information
>
> The person answering:
> 1. is showing his good will to offer free time and obviously thinks that
> his knowledge is deeper. He should be honored for his attitude.
> 2. should NOT presumptuous or arrogant (for he started out some time ago
> as an ignorant and insignificant person).
> 3. should provide information only if it will help the person asking
>
> Both
> 1. know that reading documentation is tedious process (if everybody
> would read all documentation available, why do we need newsgroups?)
> 2. know that instead of reading documentation one may participate in a
> newsgroup
>
> Life can be so easy.
>
> Carsten
>
> --

I don't agree with you.
There are several issues in this group. About 50 percent of all posters do not satisfy your requirement 2. Now that is really annoying.
About the same percentage of people use the newsgroups as a *replacement* for reading the documentation. Some of them refuse to read the documentation, even if they are pointed to it in a gentle way.
Maybe you are so perfect, you can't imagine someone replying frequently to all those questions being asked over and over again, sometimes looses his temper.

Life is not easy, it sux.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 23:57:24 CEST