Conversation started Mar 18, 2014 at 18:34.
gnat
gnat
Mar 18, 2014 18:34
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A: declined flag gave a bad reason for declining

codeMagic someone should delete 2 of them Who decides which two get randomly deleted since they were posted "close" to the same time and are so similar? This doesn't seem fair to whatever answers get deleted. You definitely have the option to downvote any or all of them and leave comments suggesting t...

^^^ SO tolerance to repetitive, brief, fastest gun style answers makes an interesting cultural clash when SO regulars land in sites having opposite culture...
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Q: FAQ proposal: Back It Up and Don't Repeat Others

RarityI'm considering adding the following clauses into the first bit of our FAQ: How should I answer? Make sure your answer adds helpful information and is a complete, stand-alone answer. Read other answers first and be sure not to completely restate information that has already been posted. ...

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in regular questions, "host site" community is expected to have headroom to accommodate new users and smoothly introduce them to cultural differences. In hot questions this breaks, pressure seems to be too high
hot list audience consists mostly of SO users, by far the largest site in the network. From this perspective, smaller sites carry the same "exposure risks" as these at SO - but, while SO has 17 moderators, thousands of 20K/10Kers, tens thousands of 3K users with close votes, smaller sites do not have anything like that. To say that such an equality in exposure risks coupled with such a striking difference in abilities to protect from these is unfair, would be an understatement... — gnat yesterday
believe it or not, but MSO post I referred "defends" four answers all stating the same "use Bit DataType", give or take 2-3 more words. At Workplace, there would be a downvoting and flagging storm there, on all four of them
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A: Is there Boolean data in sql server like mysql?

kristianYou could use the BIT datatype to represent boolean data (a BIT field's value is either 1 or 0)

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A: Is there Boolean data in sql server like mysql?

ketan italiyause bit datatype for save the logical values,in sql A bit datatype is an integer data type which can store either a 0 or 1 or null value.

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A: Is there Boolean data in sql server like mysql?

Pranay RanaYou can use Bit DataType in sql server to store boolean data.

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A: Is there Boolean data in sql server like mysql?

Rodrick ChapmanUse the Bit datatype. It has values 1 and 0 when dealing with it in native t-sql

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A: Is there Boolean data in sql server like mysql?

HackedByChineseSQL Server uses Bit

lovely isn't it?
Alex M.
Alex M.
Duplicate answer, I can see the others posting as duplicate because they were so close together, but you post a duplicate answer 3 years later. — Malachi Mar 14 at 15:50
lol what was he thinking
gnat
gnat
then these guys (all five of them) click hot question, land here and post in the same way they learned there, the way that brought them nice fine upvotes at SO.
funniest thing that Shog states hot questions are painful because sites like us are troublesome. What site is really troublesome?
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A: What is the Goal of "Hot Network Questions"?

Shog9I actually have a slightly different opinion of what "hot" questions are good for: entertainment. When I'm bored, tired of doing actual work or waiting for something to finish running, they're almost always good for a quick - and ideally informative - diversion. This is what I've always used the ...

> Guess what: if your site is full of crappy questions, your site sucks - even if they're not highly-ranked by your own users, folks are finding them via Google, and that's where the vast majority of your readers are coming from. You can work to fix that - as painful as that process is - or you can bury your head in the sand and blame it on all of those stupid people from elsewhere.
> If you think "hot" questions are a serious problem for your site's quality, then you're already ignoring a much bigger problem.
sure his answer has been upvoted... by same horde of SO lemmings who believe 5xUseBitType answers are okay
Alex M.
Alex M.
Mar 18, 2014 19:06
so, shog9 was the asshole there or something?
gnat
gnat
@AlexM. typical SO regular there, how you call them is up to you
 
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