User talk:Pinaldave
re:Link of SQL Server PDF FAQ
[edit]Hi Pinal Dave. Welcome to the bad world of Wikipedia. Its good that you are using the talk pages. Anyways, use the article talk pages (Talk:Microsoft SQL Server) if you want some discussion regarding the article. Use user talk pages for something that is more on a person-to-person level. And one more thing, you can refer to any wikipedia article as [[Microsoft SQL Server]] (it will create this link: Microsoft SQL Server); you do not need to copy the URL everytime. Other than that, the message was fine.
Now coming back to the link. Please read WP:EL, thats the policy that defines what can be allowed as a valid external link. The FAQ you want to link is just a tabulation of data types and functions available for use in T-SQL queries. More or less the information is already covered in the DotNet4All Factsheet. There is no need for duplication. This is not an endorsement of one site over other, this is just removal of redundancy. Plus, Wikipedia articles are supposed to only give an overview of the topic, not be any in-depth reference; nor a programmer's reference manual either. So even if the DotNet4All factsheet does not cover all of the data types or functions, it provides a lot more info than the FAQ, which makes it a more suitable External link.
Btw, I am copying the thread to Talk:Microsoft SQL Server. You can respond there. --soum talk 10:14, 29 April 2008 (UTC)