Re: SQL Fun Challenge #2

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1078425466.81365_at_yasure>...

> I've got to talk to my students ... their approaches lacked the
> ROFL humor we've had here.

Ahem!, the thread title said: SQL =>Fun<= Challenge #2 I think we obliged! ;)

> Also someone should talk to the Informix usenet group. I posted it
> there and not once person rose to the challenge. The only response

Well, you know those IBM guys: they "run" serious databases every day!
They couldn't possibly have fun, now!

Sometimes I wonder if they "run" DBs,
or if they just watch them "go past"...

> I wonder if experience will eventually teach them that there is as
> much future in Informix as there is in Ingres?

and it's a pity. Informix used to be a very good product and their people were some of the best in the industry. Somewhere around 1995 it all went wrong. Dunno what caused it, but it was sad to watch.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 22:31:08 CST