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in thread Combining two fetches with DBI and MySQL

"minus 15 votage!! Ouch,"

Firstly, I don't recall exactly how many times I have taken the time to explain the Voting/Experience System to you. In the past I have referred you to nodes like The Role of XP in PerlMonks and Why the decrement points.

"on a different matter I know enough mysql to do what I want to do, hence i know mysql..."

Yet you post a question, where the answer is to us MySQL, this (and another issue) is pointed out here and here, but you claim to know enough to do what you want to do, and provide a service to others?
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Re^10: Combining two fetches with DBI and MySQL
by barrycarlyon (Beadle) on Aug 23, 2006 at 21:05 UTC

    i was suggesting a solution based on the knowledge, i have,

    I thought the idea of this site was to help people do what ever they need to do with the tools avaiable to them, so obviously people are going to suggest something which is outside of the box, i was just commenting on the minus 15 in such a short time.

    The way i meant it was to be a funny comment

    and stop referring me to those nodes, ive read them, it dosent mean i cant comment on them in what ever fashion i like

    Obviously i dont have as much mysql experince, but i still "know" sql, coz ive made 3 websites using it, i havent had to stick to fecthes together, hence i didnt know you could do it in sql, so i suggeted a tt solution

    Thinking outside of the box, - in this case

    Barry Carlyon barry@barrycarlyon.co.uk
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      "I thought the idea of this site was to help people do what ever they need to do with the tools avaiable to them"

      Well no, this site is not a place for people to post questions about fixing their car with whatever tools they have available. To find out what this site is intended to do please read What is PerlMonks? from the PerlMonks FAQ.

      "and stop referring me to those nodes, ive read them, it dosent mean i cant comment on them in what ever fashion i like"

      Because you keep moaning in the CB and in nodes about getting downvoted I keep referring you to nodes which try to explain the reasons why people get downvoted, and what the value of XP actually is. This is not D&D, you will not die if you lose all of your XP.

      "Obviously i dont have as much mysql experince, but i still "know" sql, coz ive made 3 websites using it, i havent had to stick to fecthes together, hence i didnt know you could do it in sql, so i suggeted a tt solution"

      Correct me if I am wrong, but when you first came here you said that you had inherited the LSRFM site. I suppose the question about "knowing" something (or someone) is open to interpretation. You can know who someone is by being able to put a name to a face, or you can have known someone for a long time, know a lot about who they are, and what they have done in their life. The two are clearly worlds apart.

      Obviously TIMTOWTDI, but not every solution to a problem makes sense under the circumstances. For example your idea of using TT to do something you should be doing at a SQL level makes very little sense, as there is now more code to maintain for this solution, and databases are very good at this kind of thing anyway. Don't get me wrong, thinking outside the box is great, so long as the solution you end up with makes sense.

      Martin
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