[AccessD] A request for standardized questions

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Aug 25 08:22:20 CDT 2012


I was being good!  ;)

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 8/25/2012 8:49 AM, Susan Harkins wrote:
> Arthur, is it really likely that if they can't solve their query problem that they have the
> expertise to send you code that creates the table(s) and populates it with sample data?
>
> Susan H.
>
>
>> But tell us how you really feel, Arthur?  LOL
>>
>> Charlotte
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I just read YASFQQ (yet another stupid forking query question) in which the
>>> poster sends the query itself and asks for advice, correction, etc.
>>>
>>> What I would really like to have, in such questions, is code to create the
>>> tables, populate them with a few sample rows, and then issue the query
>>> itself. In the absence of same, I have to hypothesize on purely
>>> syntax-related issues, and in all likelihood I am not going to respond.
>>>
>>> Give me a script that creates the tables and populates them and adds the
>>> problematic query, and chances are that you'll receive a response much more
>>> quickly than when dealing with abstractions.
>



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