Re: SQL Humor

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 - 19:33:16 CEST