Are all of the "legacy" forums being moved here? Or only some of them?
Only the technical "legacy" forums are being hosted here. Some non-technical forums will continue to be hosted at the
previous location. These include:
- Jobs
- Marketing Tips and CRM Best Practices
- PARTNERS 2009
- Training
There has been some discussion on why there are no direct equivalents to these legacy forums:
- Teradata Advanced Analytics User Group
- Data Warehousing
The short answer is that there doesn't appear to be enough differentiation between those forums and the Database forum. Many of the topics posted in those forums are not particular to "Advanced Analytics" or "Data Warehousing". We also posted a topic into those forums last week asking for opinion on whether these legacy forums were needed, and nobody requested that we keep them. That said, if at some point down the line we find that there's value in re-instating them, then we can easily do so.
Any plans to move the content of the old forums over to this forum.
We're investigating the feasibility of doing this, and it's certainly something we'd like to do. However, the timeline, if feasible, is weeks-months from now.
I have a question on how to check for the end of a file in cursor processing in a stored procedure. I have two cursors and I am checking for sqlstate = 00000 for successful processing but I need to know when one of the cursors hits end of file before the other. Would I declare 2 saved fields and stored the value after each fetch? Is it a simple set saved_sqlstate = sqlstate after each fetch? I can't find any documenation on this. I don't know if this is where I ask my question so if not, could you please redirect me? Thank you.
@Cheryl: this is the wrong thread for that topic... try creating a new topic in the Database forum: http://developer.teradata.com/forum/database
What about the old ATR does it move to this new forum ?
The ATR is still operating independently. We may investigate forum/mailing-list integration at some point, but not in the immediate future.
I think the old forum is more active than this one. The reminder thread over there about this new forum has gone down and new people coming there are not properly/promptly redirected to this forum.
I think moving everything here should be a better option. Or maybe closing new thread creation in the legacy forum and only allow replies to old threads.
There's been a few road bumps with integrating/retiring the old forums, but we're making progress on that, and this redundant situation should be over soon.
I'm glad to report that we're making some progress on the forum integration. Watch this space.
Regarding the technical "legacy" forums, when will they be retired (officially moved to forums.teradata.com)? Will we be redirected to this site?
Also, will "The TeradataForum" at http://www.teradataforum.com/index.htm be moved to forums.teradata.com?
@cyclinsue: the intention is to retire the 'legacy' forums this quarter, possibly in February. Users will then be directed to this site.
> Also, will "The TeradataForum" at http://www.teradataforum.com/index.htm be moved to forums.teradata.com?
No, as that is not a Teradata-operated site.
Teradata Developer Exchange is now hosting all the Teradata-related technical discussion forums. These forums are replacing the previous legacy Teradata discussion forums, but if you cannot find an answer to a topic here, please search the previous forums before posting.
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