Re: How do I use ROWNUM in a subquery (emulating SQL Server TOP n)

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 06:45:42 -0800
Message-ID: <1101998646.913216@yasure>

billiauk_at_yahoo.co.uk wrote:

>>Or did you just reply because you saw the opportunity to bash

>
> someone?
>
> Of course not. I stopped visiting usenet because it grew incredibly
> tiresome for me to see the vast swathes of rude, arrogant and flaming
> responses by a select few. So having come back to give it another go, I
> see accusations of homework questions and RTFM style answers by the
> same select few on almost all of the first 10 threads I read. So I was
> annoyed that's all and felt sorry for the guy who asked the question.
>
> And if you'd already dismissed the question, why on earth are you still
> following the thread ? Especially when there's all those juicy threads
> in the server forum to answer...

Because Howard must always have the last and be RIGHT word I expect.

You are correct ... there is too much lack of civility and too many people that behave boorishly because they are virtually anonymous. People that say what they would never say to another person's face: Myself included to be honest.

But don't dismiss the "homework" and "RTFM" as being a lack of civility. They are just in the nature that some people are indeed asking for help with homework. I teach so I've got a reasonably good handle on it. And some people need to RTFM because their questions are written from the standpoint of lazyiness above and beyond the call of duty.

We all write things, from time-to-time, we regret afterward. Some of us apologize too. So stay here and understand that it is, after all, the usenet.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)

Received on Thu Dec 02 2004 - 08:45:42 CST