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Saturday 28 July 2007, 3:27 PM

What's the value of the MVP title and does Microsoft respond...

Posted by nico5038

From the Microsoft Overview (https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpexecsum) you can read what to expect from an MVP:

When a community participant sees an MVP in a technical community, whether in a newsgroup, as a user group host, a conference speaker, or a respondent in forums, that community participant can be confident that the information shared by the MVP will be of the highest caliber and will help every user make the most of the technology.

I ran into this posting of a 2006 MVP having an interesting SQL WHERE-clause:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
if you need to to pull the records where
- apt is null and 2apt is not null or vice versa, use this

SELECT tb1.*, tb2.*
FROM tb1 INNER JOIN tb2 ON tb1.CustomerID = tb2.CustomerID
WHERE (((tb1.apt) Is Null) AND ((tb2.[2apt]) Is Null)) OR (((tb1.apt) Is Null)) OR (((tb2.[2apt]) Is Null));
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This posting was made the 5th of October 2006, the year this "MVP" was "rewarded" for.

Obviously this expert has no knowledge of boolean logic and it really makes me wonder how well MVP's are screened for being of "the highest caliber". Moreover I wonder how "will help every user make the most of the technology" is interpreted.
For me that includes teaching a user to be able to solve a similar problem the next time him/herself.
Seeing the way this expert helps questioners with google links, single liners or "full blown solutions" without any explanation of the how and why, doesn't fit my definition of helping.

I've mailed mvpga@microsoft.com a complaint to the MVP-programme about this matter, as in my view this kind of experts lower the value of the MVP-program. Moreover I've been informed by two other experts that they too were surprised to see this "expert" to be a MVP Awardee.

I'll keep you posted about the response from Microsoft, at least they failed to respond within one week....

Nic;o)

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