Re: REPOST: RMAN question

On 3 Sep 2004 13:28:43 -0700, joel-garry_at_home.com (Joel Garry) wrote:

>Ed Stevens <nospam_at_noway.nohow> wrote in message news:<bp4ej095bde7n1rrn8hab21ks4gv7739uu_at_4ax.com>...
>> On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:22:04 -0700, Daniel Morgan
>> <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
>>
>> <snippage>
>>
>> <off-topic slippage>
>>
>> >Ok with me. Going back to my Cobol days and thinking about the year 2000
>> >I considered forever to be about 20 years and so did all of my
>> >contemporaries. ;-)
>> >
>> Even though I haven't written a line of Cobol in several years, I
>> still consider myself an unrepentant Cobol programmer. And as such I
>> still find myself taking umbrage at even a hint that the Y2k problem
>> was a Cobol problem. As every Cobol programmer must realize, Y2k was
>> never a "Cobol issue" but a system design issue that usually -- and
>> coincidentally -- was implemented in Cobol. And could have been
>> written in any other language.
>
>And was, as a search on y2k on metalink will show. Sometimes even a
>feature, not a bug:
>http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showFrameDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=1043768.6
>
>This is still kinda interesting:
>http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showFrameDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=77654.1
>
>Not to mention all the installer issues.
>
>>
>> (Don't even get me started about my feelings regarding the "demise" of
>> Cobol . . . )
>>
>> ;-)
>
>I was glad not to have to deal with it 25 years ago!
>
>jg

With apologies to Meridith Wilson and Robert Preston . . .

"Why, sure I'm a Cobol programmer. Mighty proud to say ... I'm always mahhhty proud to say it. But just as I say it take judgement, brains, and maturity to code a modularized procedure division, I say that any BOOB! . . . can take and click an input box into an Access form!"

(Please ... I'm not calling anyone here a boob. I just had to indulge a bit light-hearted humor.) Received on Tue Sep 07 2004 - 08:37:30 CDT