> Different people have different talents. Some are great at painting and
> some are great at writing and understanding SQL. Maybe some people who
> work with SQL shouldn't, because they don't have the talent, but then
> again, that goes for painters too, but still they paint and still they
> write SQL. Who are we to say they aren't be allowed to?

We are consumers and/or competitors. Talentless painters change their
occupation or starve to death. Unfortunately, talentless programmers
doesn't. Instead they parasitize on forums and continue to produce badly
working programs. As the result opinions spread that "Firebird can't
handle more than 10 users" or "1Gb database is too big for Firebird and
unbearable slow". Do your "a lot of good" includes these rumors?

> Regarding knowledge vs. ready-to-use solutions: If you're in a project
> and have very limited time, you often tend to go for
> just-help-me-do-this rather than
> please-give-me-deep-knowledge-and-understanding. Perhaps you're just too
> stressed out to be able to take very much new knowledge in. You can't
> expect everyone to have unlimited time to learn new stuff that he/she
> may need only just this one time for a very specific and short-term need.

Right now I'm in a project which uses Oracle. I'm not stressed in
time, but nevertheless I tried to get some "just-help-me" answers from
Oracle community just for experiment. Guess what I got. "RTFM!"
Of course, I RTM. And I found that Oracle documentation isn't better
than Firebird one. You also must dig into more than one 500-pages
volumes to get an answer. And the answer that you've got may be in the
best case unclear, in the worst - completely wrong. Not talking about
completely undocumented things like Publish-Subscription Notification
using anonymous namespace. The docs just state that both parts of this
puzzle exist.
With Firebird I could look into it's code and get exact answer here,
but with Oracle I have no way.

> Good. A lot of good. Help FB become popular. It is not a strange
> expression. It's a common idiomatic way of saying exactly that, even if
> the "good" part is impled.

Only one thing: definition of "good" also implied, but it may differ
for different people.
Simple example: free answers is good? May be. But I, personally, like
to eat. Every day. More often than once a day. But I can't get any food
giving free answers. How pity!

> Yes. Posted there... Here... :-)

I wasn't sure that you are subscribed.

SY, SD.