Re: consolidation of multiple rows

On Mar 7, 12:36 pm, Serge Rielau <srie..._at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> --CELKO-- wrote:
> >>> There are a lot of top notch programmers and DBA's who have never heard of Joe Celko. <<
>
> > LOL!  Programmers, sure; I know some who are not sure who the
> > president is.  DBAs, probably not :)  I am teaching a graduate
> > Database Course at a small local college from the 8-th edition of a
> > popular textbook.  I am not just quoted in a few places, but my name
> > is used in data in the examples.  Unfortunately, I am shown as knowing
> > Java in one of the tables, which I don't.
>
> My first run in with Joe was 12 years ago in form of a QA suite named
> "joe_celko" which failed on me after I broke DB2 ;-)
> It contains "SQL for Smarties" queries.
>

I'd have to root about, but I think I have an email from Joe from about 15 years ago. (You can assume he made a positive impression for me to remember that!)

jg

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