Re: consolidation of multiple rows
From: The Boss <usenet_at_No.Spam.Please.invalid>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:30:21 +0100
Message-ID: <47d7160b$0$14343$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>
>> --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.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Serge
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:30:21 +0100
Message-ID: <47d7160b$0$14343$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>
DA Morgan wrote:
> Serge Rielau 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.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Serge
> > DB2? Broken? Tell me it ain't so. <g> > > Have I got a story to tell you about zLinux. > On second thought you probably don't want to hear it. <g> >
Why not?
As long as it is not some rumour or gossip, but a real story with substance,
I actually would be interested.
-- JeroenReceived on Tue Mar 11 2008 - 18:30:21 CDT