a couple of years ago there was a pretty long thread on oracle.server
newsgroup where Celko said he basically hates Oracle. Has something to do
with Oracle's implementation of SQL.
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From: "Michael Milligan" <Michael.Milligan_at_ingenix.com>
To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 5:27 PM
Subject: RE: Useful Oracle books
> Date's books, especially his Relational Database Writings books (there are
> four or five of them) are very readable to me. His textbook is more
> difficult, but look at one of his Writings books. They are excellent. In
my
> opinion, his logic is nearly flawless. I also have Codd's book and I like
> Date's way of thinking a lot more. Joe Celko has some books out as well. I
> read the other day that he "built his career on opposing Date". I've read
> his books as well but, like I said, I persoanlly lean toward Date's way of
> thinking on relational databases (nulls, etc.)
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