Re: What is this world coming to?

On Sunday, October 13, 2013 4:13:36 PM UTC-6, Ken wrote:
> On 13-Oct-2013, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:41:14 +0000, Ken wrote:
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> > > The new generation of programmers seems to be a lazy bunch.
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> > > Just today I had someone complain to me that they were trying to do a
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> > > in an Oracle database and there didn't seem to be any way of doing it
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> > in SQL
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> > > Developer. I told them just to do it as a SQL statement and got a reply
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> > > "Why should I be expected to know SQL?"
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> > That is why the good lord has given us S&W 44 magnum. You should have
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> > said something like this:
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> > "Having in mind that this is Oracle RDBMS, the mightiest database in the
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> > world that can screw your application clean off, you should ask yourself
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> > one question only: do I feel like keeping my job? Well, do you, punk?".
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> > I love the smell of SQL in the morning.
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> The first version of Oracle I worked with was 6.0.32. Back then we had no
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> gui tools. Everything was done with the command line. Of course back then
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> PL/SQL sucked big time, but huge steps forward were made with PL/SQL in 7.3.
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> The other big change that came along was locally managed tablespaces. But
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> even after Enterprise Manager and then SQK Developer came along there are
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> still things that I only do either directly in command lines or within
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PL/SQL 'sucked big time' because it was just introduced with Release 6, and it was basically a slightly overhauled implementation of ADA. I also worked with PL/SQL in that release but, because I could get loops and such to hobble along to completion (which I couldn't do with SQL*Plus), I wasn't inconvenienced. That being said I certainly do appreciate the improvements to PL/SQL over the years and various releases.

David Fitzjarrell Received on Mon Oct 14 2013 - 18:24:39 CEST