At 06:12 PM 14-02-02 -0600, jon-david schlough wrote:

>thanks for you condescention helen! it helps a lot :)

Apologies for the offence taken, which was *not* intended.

Rather than leap off a tall building as you recommend, may I just put it to you that it's extremely difficult and frustrating to try and provide problem solutions when people provide no pertinent information? A problem involving a failed SQL statement in insoluble if we don't know what the statement was.

Consider the time (freely given) that responders spend trying to extract information from people who don't want to share the essential details of their problems. So far, your thread has taken three postings from me (and about 30 minutes) and we still have no information that would help to solve it.

>i'm just not as experienced or as capable as you are...bummer:

This is not a prerequisite to describing your problem.

>( i guess getting laid off from web design then trying to learn new technology....like, oh, say
>enterprise level RDBM and Perl would be no problem for you! How silly of me
>to get frustrated!

I understand your frustration but please don't blame me for it. I hope you understand mine.

>I'm surprised...generally open source folks are respectful, even to newbies
>who make mistakes, because they'd rather people participate than be
>discouraged into not participating.

I find it hard to relate to offence taken from a request to supply sufficient information to understand a problem. This is what I said:

"I guess the next great leap forward will be when you show us the statement
that failed and the DDL for the table you were trying to insert to."

>I'm not discouraged,

Good.

>in large part
>because Ann took the time to respond privately to a newbie post I made with
>the utmost class and respect...and she "wrote the book" on IB/FB.
>http://www.ibphoenix.com/ibp_config.html literally. I'm reading it slowly
>trying to absorb as much as I can.

That's an excellent document, of biblical importance, and Ann is undoubtedly the fount of all knowledge of our great database. It's encouraging to see that you appreciate the time she spared to help you.

>forget it. all apologies for wasting everyone's time.

I doubt that you wasted anyone's time but mine and I'm fairly philosophical about that. But, if you are serious about solutions to the inevitable problems you (like all newbies) are going to bump into, then do please try to post useful problem descriptions. In general, we need to know which database and version you are using, which client environment the problem occurs in and, for SQL problems, we need to see the statement and the structure of the data it is operating on.

>and helen, feel free to "show us" a "great leap forward" off a tall building.

Thanks for that, I'll consider it when I am slightly less busy. I'm sure you will get a solution to your problem from someone, once you provide adequate information.

regards,
Helen


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