Re: consolidation of multiple rows

On Mar 14, 7:12 pm, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 11, 6:14 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck..._at_attglobal.net> wrote:
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> > gazzag wrote:
> > > On 11 Mar, 16:55, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck..._at_attglobal.net> wrote:
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> > >> Oh, and BTW - what a colossal waste of time.  How often does one have to
> > >> install Oracle, anyway?  If it's more than once per system, then you
> > >> need to go to a better product.
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> > >> Remove the "x" from my email address
> > >> Jerry Stuckle
> > >> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> > >> jstuck..._at_attglobal.net
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> > > Installing and configuring an Oracle installation is valuable
> > > experience.  I'd consider it a valid part of a decent course.
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> > > -g
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> > My customers would consider installation a complete waste of time.  If
> > it's that hard to install, maybe people should use a different product.
> >   DB2 comes to mind.
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> > In the time his students take to install Oracle, our DB2 Admin students
> > have learned about the tuning parameters, explained SQL statements to
> > determine why things run slowly and tuned the system for better performance.
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> > Much more useful use of time than sitting there watching a CD spin.
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> > Remove the "x" from my email address
> > Jerry Stuckle
> > JDS Computer Training Corp.
> > jstuck..._at_attglobal.net
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> Am I understanding you correctly?
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> You offer "computer training" - presumably including, but not
> necessarily dedicated to database systems. You don't however consider
> that the build of a server, nor the installation of software, nor the
> configuration of an application is of any great importance. You don't
> consider that a knowledge of relational theory is of any great use to
> practitioners. You do however seem to value stuff people have picked
> up along the way. I guess I'll stick to believing that you indeed
> offer training whilst Daniel and Joe offer education.
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> Niall Litchfieldhttp://www.orawin.info/- Hide quoted text -

From what I saw in this thread Joe Celko noted that he had not contributed to advancing relational theory. Practical stuff perhaps I don't really know but certainly he has a number of SQL Server related books out. I am not aware of anything in the oracle area that he has published. Received on Fri Mar 14 2008 - 19:08:46 CDT