Re: Oracle versus Sqlserver

From: Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:37:57 GMT
Message-ID: <3c4ffe1f.4225606@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>

Joel Garry doodled thusly:

>> copy of his first book: for the time it was quite adventurous.
>
>Which was his first? I bought his sql intro book contemporaneous with
>that stuff, just to see if he could actually write.

Aye! You made me go back to *that* bookshelf! (Date, Niessen, Codd, Pascal, etc. So is Booch and a few others...)

Understanding Relational Databases
With Examples in SQL-92.
Foreword by C.J. Date
Published: Wiley, 1993
and signed by Fabian himself on 18/8/93! <G>

>
>I guess the alt.fan.karl-malden.nose.* is far more valuable in the
>marketplace. ( http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=c3de9a3d0a063bfb&rnum=3
>)

Unreal!

>> And DEC sells the lot for 100M$????? Heeeellllloooooooo????
>> No wonder Larry was so happy...
>
>Obviously, someone with an Excel spreadsheet on their Rainbow.

dunno, but it redefined dumb to me...

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam Received on Thu Jan 24 2002 - 06:37:57 CST