The Voice of the DBA The Worst Advice

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Jul 08, 2009 The Worst Advice

I wrote an editorial for Database Weekly recently talking about the need to verify advice you get online. After all, those with even the best of intentions get things wrong at times. People answering questions might be doing what has worked for them to apparently solve a problem, but not really understand why, or they might not realize that their situation is not the same as that of the poster.

I was thinking about how to address this with SQLServerCental, and what changes we might make. We are considering altering our forums to allow some different types of markings for answers, but all the ideas we have take considerable development, so I'm not sure we'll make changes soon.

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