RE: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code

From: Kellyn Pedersen <kjped1313_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:32:50 -0800 (PST)
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And I thought the developer was just trying to slip in a message to everyone about how he really felt about working on the code...  :)

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• On Tue, 1/26/10, Ric Van Dyke <ric.van.dyke_at_hotsos.com> wrote:

From: Ric Van Dyke <ric.van.dyke_at_hotsos.com> Subject: RE: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code To: troach_at_gmail.com, dennis_at_conus.info Cc: "ORACLE-L" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 7:33 AM

You’d be surprised (or shocked) at some of the things that have creep into the code over the years…  

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Roach Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 7:44 AM
To: dennis_at_conus.info
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code  
I wonder what other lyrics are in the code :)... Could this explain why Oracle keeps taking more room to install? : )

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Dennis Yurichev <dennis_at_conus.info> wrote:
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Hi.

strings oracle.exe | grep radiohead

Starting at least at 10.2.0.1, function kfasSelfTest_update() (located in kfas.o) use Radiohead lyrics to test... something related to ASM probably.

Schematic pseudocode:

#define STRING "I'm a creep, I'm a winner, what the hell am I doing here.I don't belong here - radiohead"

kfasSelfTest_update()
{

       kfasOpen (...);
       somestruct.somevalue=STRING;
       kfasUpdate (somestruct);
       kfasClose (...);
       newstruct=kfasOpen (...);
       if (strncmp (newstruct.somevalue, STRING, ...)!=0)
       {
               // raise error 99999?
               kserec1(99999, 1, ...);
               kserec2(99999, 1, ..., STRING, 1, ...);
               return 0;
       };
       kfasClose (...);
       return 1;

};

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