While browsing around other people's weblogs, I came across an article on SQL Joins. The article's pretty interesting, but what's more interesting are the comments. It seems like half of the comments are in praise of the article and the other half are explaining how the analogy the author made was wrong. Right or wrong, it doesn't matter too much to me because I don't use SQL Joins that often.

The question to be raised here is how do you trust what you read online? Specifically how do you know whether something you read on someone's blog is something you should be using every day in your work or something you should try to strike from your memory?

The answer is easy: be skeptical of everything you read online. Anyone can publish anything online. I ignored my skeptic side while reading this article because it was linked from what I thought was a reliable source. You should never believe what you read online (or anywhere for that matter) until you have spent time looking into the topic yourself.

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