Re: consolidation of multiple rows

DA Morgan wrote:

> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> DA Morgan wrote:

>>>> DA Morgan wrote:
>>>>>>> If you know the names Date and Codd you should know who you are
>>>>>>> addressing: Joe Celko.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not a name I am familiar with.
>>>>>
>>>>> Says much about your attitude toward our profession.
>>>>>
>>>>> Enlighten yourself:
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Celko
>>>>> http://www.dbmsmag.com/artin301.html#A000009
>>>>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Wikipedia%22+and+%22Joe+Celko%22&btnG=Google+Search 
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not necessarily.  There are a lot of top notch programmers and DBA's 
>>>> who have never heard of Joe Celko.
>>>

>>>

>>>

>>
>> Quite incorrect.  Right off the top of my head I can probably name a 
>> dozen I know personally who haven't heard of him.  He's well known in 
>> some circles, but definitely not all.
> 
> The operative phrase here is "top notch." If they ever took even a basic
> class on normalization they could not have missed the name Boyce. If
> they learned more in C than "Hello World" they'd know who Dennis is.

Not necessarily. A lot of great DBA's know normalization but don't know   Boyce. And these are DBA's who manage databases in the hundreds of terabyte range, running sometimes tens of thousands of operations a second. They learned normalization techniques and maybe even heard of Boyce and Codd. But they have no idea who they were.

And while they were famous 20 years ago, a lot of people who have learned C in the last 10 years or more have never heard of either Kernighan or Ritchie.

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