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About 2 years ago my mailbox was getting overwhelmed with the mail I get from listservers. It seemed I was getting overwhelmed with lack of time to read the posts but couldn't bring myself to just delete the incomng unread mail. I moved all of my lists except one to my gmail account, which has been a godsend, and it has greatly helped with my time management. I kept one listserver in my regular inbox - 'sqlqueriesnocode'. This morning I was thumbing through the entries that came yesterday and saw this one - the subject was "join sql server and oracle table on openquery select statement". The poster showed his tables and his query that was not working and was asking for help. I read it quickly - assumed I had no input on a sql/oracle query (it also was rather confusing) and moved on to the next post.

Then I saw Arnie Rowlands answer and it changed my attitude about a lot of things in just a moment. It changed my attitude about the tasks I am facing today, including a job interview. I have to share this post with you. The first line of Arnie's response was "You are making it too difficult." The answer was a very simple join. I think many times I tend to focus on 'that which I don't know' instead of 'that which I do know'. I believe it is a matter of attitude that could make such a monumental difference in the way we approach everything. I could have answered this post had I possessed a different attitude towards the content. Facing my first job interview in several years I have been focused on all of the skills that I don't have, the things I don't understand and negating the things I do know, the things I don't even have to think about anymore. This was a great realization for a Monday and frankly may have an impact on my approach to everything that is to come ~ R

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