Re: The Null Problem is a Non-issue

On 2016-03-09, Tony Andrews <tony.andrews.1_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 1 February 2015 19:32:00 UTC, Eric wrote:
>> Apologies to everyone else for letting this become a flame war.
>
> I'm afraid a "conversation" with Derek S can rarely be anything else,
> unless you agree to be heavily patronised. Derek hates Oracle with a
> passion only matched by his ignorance of it. I once spent an inordinate
> amount of time trying to get him to explain to me why Oracle is a "row
> processor", a term he seems to have made up. After dozens of emails in
> which I had to do all the heavy work he eventually declared that he had
> now learned that it no longer was a "row processor", but had once been
> one (presumably in or before the early 1980s). Of course he refused
> ever to explain what he meant by "row processor" because (I inferred)
> he deemed me too stupid to be able to understand if he did.

Sorry, the longest interval I have seen between posting and response via Googlegroups is now 14 years, so no new record :-)

We haven't heard from Derek since shortly after that, I think. I won't be surprised if he never reappears (or if he does, I suppose). As far as I remember he never explained what he meant by most things he said.

Eric

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