Re: SQL Humor

You smell like someone who spends most of their time lurking around the halls of a university or research lab rather than developing database models for real production systems.

"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_nospaum_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1124388849.145863.189590_at_g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> No, that was my opinion. Do you imply I'm not qualified to be a DBA?
> Well, I would be ashamed to be called a master of extents and segment
> management.
>
> JT wrote:
>> If this was intended to be a humorous quote from another faux DBA, then
>> thanks for the laugh! If that was your own opinion (and I'm assuming
>> not),
>> then do society a favor by quiting your job and living off unemployment.
>> ;-)
>>
>> "Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_nospaum_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:1124385453.899643.54220_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> > Another source for quote of the week.
>> >
>> > Although the author is unfair emphasizing that DBA has to be aware char
>> > vs varchar2 difference. The character string types in SQL are just
>> > plain silly. For how long ordinary programming languages have [a
>> > single] type String [with unlimited bounds] already? Also when did you
>> > design a database schema with char datatype last time? In a word, there
>> > is not a single advantage of char over varchar2. Therefore, char is not
>> > even worth mentioned, and should just be deprecated: there are to many
>> > really important things on DBA plate.
>> >
>> > Mike Labosh wrote:
>> >> I am sure many of you folks are already subscribed, but for those who
>> >> are
>> >> not, here's a story of some DBA job interviews of candidates that
>> >> should
>> >> just be summarily shot:
>> >>
>> >> (This will wrap)
>> >>
>> >> http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sMcCown/howdoyouspellsql_printversion.asp
>> >>
>> >
>
Received on Thu Aug 18 2005 - 21:31:58 CEST