All that and you didn't even give the man the answer?!?
So if I asked you how to divide by zero, and we entered into a lengthy debate over whether or not it was a dumb request or impossible, or illogical and at the end it was just left.. you'd accept me coming back lambasting you for not providing an answer? Don't be so short-sighted.
I swear this is why I hate forums sometimes...
If you can't take the heat... Don't voice your opinion on the internet. Incase you never really understood what a forum is for, it's for discussion. It's not a Question and Answer session and people are free to give their free advice and their free opinions. Don't forget; everyone is entitled to my opinions
they come out of the wood work to tell ya how wrong you are but NO ONE has an answer either! Unbelievable!
Er. There are some questions that have no answer, not because noone knows, but because those who would know the answer know that there is no answer.
Here is one way to get your record pointer back to it's original position after a refill of a dataset/datatable.
Yes, but it's not guaranteed to work, because youre foolishly expecting that your second fill operation will fill the exact same number of rows in the exact same order as the first fill operation. Maybe you'll be so blinded by rage at my telling you that you're wrong, that you will fail to see how dumb and illogical your solution is. Plain up, it's wrong, broken and thanks for trying but youre trying to solve a nonsensical question.
I really wish some of you "programmers" out there would remember that programming is an art
No, it's a science. When I look at an artist programmers work, it's the biggest pile of tosh I've ever seen.
The last thing someone who is frustrated and trying to learn something new needs is some sanctimonious, know-it-all lecturing them on how much they don't know.
I disagree. I'd assert that the last thing someone who is frustrated and in the dark needs guiding on how something should be done, not having all the answers of how to progress their broken solution. You don't seem to ahve grasped that people get it wrong all the time. What they get wrong is THEIR SOLUTION to the problem: There's a problem, they imagine a solution, it doesnt work, they come here asking how to make their broken solution work. Not the right way!
The right way is to teach of how to envisage a WORKABLE solution, and help them make that work. This is called..
Why don't you try being a mentor
..mentoring.
A mentor will not stand by and watch his mentee repeatedly doing something wrong because his appraoch is flawed. He guides and corrects the approach. That is what the discussion is about here.
or at least have the decency to not post anything at all
Actually, I wish people like you would have the decency not to post anything at all if all youre going to do is get the questioner further into a crappy unworkable solution, and disappear and leave us to tell him "sorry, but what you wrote was a crock and you need to rip it out and rewrite it"
People hate doing that, but all too often we see the story: "Someone on another forum told me to follow [insert name of 10 year old tutorial on SQL here] and I can't get it to work. Please help"
if you don't intend to help.
Roll your eyes all you want, but in 10 years or so you'll come to know your stuff and you might well look back on this and realise exactly how much you DIDN'T help,
If youre struggling to understand it, suppose someone you know is going to jump off a building because they see that as the only solution. They are having trouble climbing the railing around the roof; the hit a problem with their solution. Do you solve their solution by saying "Actually, there are some step-ladders over there that you can use to get over the railings so you can jump"
It's an extreme analogy, but it's relevant! You did nothing to mentor and guide that person. You just helped them to overcome the hurdle with their broken solution.
And people have the nuts to wonder why the world at large seems to be going to heck in a hand basket...look at how we treat each other when it comes to the simple things.
I'm short of money. I have no job, no education, no family, no home, I'm an alcoholic and a broken man living on the streets. Will you give me money? It's the root cause of my biggest distress. I have no money to buy alcohol. Will you give me money?
Rarely is it the case that giving people what they want or need is the solution. Think on it.