Re: Self Joins and optimization

"Gene Wirchenko" <genew_at_ocis.net> wrote in message news:7o1f43p2bafl154lndoltu392cihqhq8ot_at_4ax.com...
> "Brian Selzer" <brian_at_selzer-software.com> wrote:
>
>>"Gene Wirchenko" <genew_at_ocis.net> wrote in message
>>news:mgbd43ddqi6rg3728ml1cjolq9j85e1a37_at_4ax.com...
>>> "David Cressey" <cressey73_at_verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>>>>news:4645b145$0$4013$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net...
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>>> I strongly suspect the theoreticians in this ng long ago decided BS's
>>>>> BS
>>>>> was not worth reading let alone responding to.
>>>>
>>>>If you are right about this, it suggests a benefit I might get out of
>>>>learning more theory than I currently know.
>>>
>>> <snigger>
>>>
>>> I gave up on Mr. Selzer some time ago. Life is too short. Since
>>> my killfile is to mark messages read, I can still see his posts if I
>>> wish to. I have not wanted to though.
>
>>Let me see. Yes! I remember now! You're the one that defends Bob
>>Badour's
>>infantile behavior. I didn't know that I had graduated to your killfile.
>
> No, I am one of the ones who happens to agree with most of what
> he does. Weeding out the newsgroup serves a useful purpose. This
> newsgroup has been overrun in the past.
>

It appears to me that someone went a bit overboard with the weedkiller. This ng has been pretty dead lately.

>>What a stunning achievement! And even one with benefits: one less closed
>>mind to waste my valuable time on.
>
> Given how much you insist that you are right and everyone else is
> wrong, pot, kettle, black.
>

I am not afraid to be wrong. When I take a position, I defend it vigorously, and perhaps that's why I come across the way you say I do. But when I'm proven wrong, I admit that I'm wrong and move on.

> Sincerely,
>
> Gene Wirchenko
>
> Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
> I have preferences.
> You have biases.
> He/She has prejudices.
Received on Mon May 14 2007 - 23:38:11 CEST