Re: Some Laws

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 05:56:17 GMT
Message-ID: <5wM7d.99880$wV.6514_at_attbi_s54>


"Lemming" <thiswillbounce_at_bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:lhurl0t4ss4946g0bg5sjj7275efg9kv5c_at_4ax.com... >
> When I first met SQL I took to it like a duck to water.

I thought it was just about the dumbest thing I'd ever encountered. I couldn't see the point, really. I was a hardcore C++ guy and thought I was god's gift. (I wasn't.) I was coding ODBC and OCI drivers, and I needed to learn SQL so I could test them.

After about a couple of years of not wanting to learn anything new, some guy showed me a many-to-many table and what you could do with it. It blew my mind, because there just wasn't anything like it in the world I was used to. I made up my mind to look into SQL a little more, which sort of snowballed.

> Once you learn to stop thinking
> procedurally, SQL becomes the answer to the question you didn't know
> enough to ask.

Oh, yeah.

Marshall Received on Sun Oct 03 2004 - 07:56:17 CEST

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