Re: What is this world coming to?

On 13-Oct-2013, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:41:14 +0000, Ken wrote:
>
> > The new generation of programmers seems to be a lazy bunch.
> >
> > Just today I had someone complain to me that they were trying to do a
> task
> > in an Oracle database and there didn't seem to be any way of doing it
> in SQL
> > Developer. I told them just to do it as a SQL statement and got a reply
> of
> > "Why should I be expected to know SQL?"
>
> That is why the good lord has given us S&W 44 magnum. You should have
> said something like this:
>
> "Having in mind that this is Oracle RDBMS, the mightiest database in the
> world that can screw your application clean off, you should ask yourself
> one question only: do I feel like keeping my job? Well, do you, punk?".
>
> I love the smell of SQL in the morning.

The first version of Oracle I worked with was 6.0.32. Back then we had no gui tools. Everything was done with the command line. Of course back then PL/SQL sucked big time, but huge steps forward were made with PL/SQL in 7.3. The other big change that came along was locally managed tablespaces. But even after Enterprise Manager and then SQK Developer came along there are still things that I only do either directly in command lines or within scripts. Received on Mon Oct 14 2013 - 00:13:36 CEST