RE: SEQ#, DUAL and Oracle literacy

Okay, I can't resist. If you read the history of databases, sometimes it seems that Bill Gates is the Edison of our day. Others may have had technically superior products, but they are mere historical footnotes. Answers to trivia questions. And while I personally feel Oracle is technically superior to its competitors, past and present, Larry is no shrinking violet publicity-wise. The book "The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison" relates how Ingres was developing a distributed capability. Larry simply announced SQL*Star. No development. His developers first learned about their new project from the media announcement. When Ingres unveiled their product, the reporters said "oh, Ingress has on just like Oracle does". And who recalls Ingres today?

Dennis Williams
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Lifetouch, Inc.
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Tesla kicked Edison's ass. Edison was one who stole most of the items he was credited for. Jared, I totally agree with you. Tesla is a very interesting and very misunderstood scientist.

Dave

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> Economize synapses... paste and execute in SQL*Plus.

Sorry Steve, I can't do that.

Two great figures from the 19th/20th centuries were Nicola Tesla and Thomas Edison, with Tesla having a clear edge in the intelligence department, while Edison was from the PT Barnum School of Business.

Given an irregularly shaped object and asked to determine its volume, Edison would promptly drill a hole in it, get a container with lines measuring of the volume of liquid it contained, fill the container and thereby determine the objects volume.

While Edison would be farting around, Tesla would measure the object, write down the measurements, then proceed to calculate the volume of the object.

Tesla's methods scaled. Edison's didn't

We have Tesla to thank for our electric power, not Edison, due to his thinking ability. He also invented radio. When Marconi built on Tesla's work and tried to patent it, he found Tesla had already visited the patent office.

As Tesla is my idol, conserving synapses is something I find inherantly distasteful.

Jared

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> I had to ponder this for a few seconds.
Economize synapses... paste and execute in SQL*Plus.

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Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 12:53 PM
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LOL! I had to ponder this for a few seconds.

Good one Steve.

Jared

On Tuesday 18 June 2002 14:23, Orr, Steve wrote:
> Here's a performance tuning query to help identify the problem:
>
> SELECT column_name "The problem is the..."
> FROM dba_tab_columns
> WHERE owner='SYS'
> AND table_name = 'DUAL'
> /
>
> :-)
>

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