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    Or am I working with SQL too long to realize this is an ordinary beginner's question? Am I asking too much?

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  • Koen Verbeeck (3/15/2012)


    GSquared (3/15/2012)


    ... world conquest through a secrect society of elite DBAs.

    *gasp*

    It can be no coincidence that this topic is full of elite DBA's!

    (for some strange reason I first read evil instead of elite)

    Isn't "evil DBA" redundant?

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  • GilaMonster (3/15/2012)


    Koen Verbeeck (3/15/2012)


    It can be no coincidence that this topic is full of elite DBA's!

    Damn, they're everywhere. How are honest developers supposed to get anything done I ask you.

    You're not supposed to get anything done. I thought you knew that already?

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  • Grant Fritchey (3/15/2012)


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    Grant Fritchey (3/15/2012)


    GSquared (3/15/2012)


    Just tell the person you were actually talking about E. Codd's younger evil twin, who had the same ideas and theories, but is using them for world conquest through a secrect society of elite DBAs.

    Too late. They've run screaming lest I contaminate them.

    Does John Codd have an assistant named Pinky?

    Not sure, but I think he has a cousin named Cape who lives near me.

    booo!!!

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  • Koen Verbeeck (3/16/2012)


    Back on-topic:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1268199-391-1.aspx

    Or am I working with SQL too long to realize this is an ordinary beginner's question? Am I asking too much?

    Possibly. Its the sort of basic stuff you can find in a "teach yourself SQL" type book or online tutorial that is learnt by practice.

  • Koen Verbeeck (3/16/2012)


    Back on-topic:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1268199-391-1.aspx

    Or am I working with SQL too long to realize this is an ordinary beginner's question? Am I asking too much?

    Could just be that the guy asking is a beginner. Gotta start somewhere.

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  • Koen Verbeeck (3/16/2012)


    Back on-topic:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1268199-391-1.aspx

    Or am I working with SQL too long to realize this is an ordinary beginner's question? Am I asking too much?

    Or this one (same OP)?

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1268137-391-1.aspx

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  • L' Eomot InversΓ© (3/15/2012)


    Well, Thomas' first writings about sex/marriage/procration are in his Scriptum Super Sententiis (aka Scriptum super libros Sententiarium) which was composed between 1253 and 1256; but the final banning of marriage for those in religious orders (and the unofficial but very thoroughly adhered to ban on ordination of any married person with a living spouse) had happened more than 100 years before that and was the culmination of a discussion that had gone on for well over a thousand years before that, so unless people had access to time machines to skip forwards a few hundred years and read his writings (or attend his lectures - the commentaries are in effect a write-up of the lectures he gave at Paris University in those years) it seems extremely unlikely that he influenced the argument in any way. He was reporting established doctrine on that point, not proposing something new.

    True, you were mainly talking about the origin of the practice, but I was also addressing the perpetuation of it. And you're right, Thomas wasn't saying anything new in general, but I believe that his hard-line stance on that activity made the attitude even more pervasive than it would have been otherwise.

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  • I think I'll go join the Guard Hippo at my Tent in the Desert. I really must be getting grumpy in my old age (no offense to those older than me).

  • Lynn Pettis (3/16/2012)


    I think I'll go join the Guard Hippo at my Tent in the Desert. I really must be getting grumpy in my old age (no offense to those older than me).

    Brandie's book scared you out into the desert?

    And what about those of us who are younger than you? Are we allowed to be offended? Please? :w00t:

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  • GSquared (3/16/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (3/16/2012)


    I think I'll go join the Guard Hippo at my Tent in the Desert. I really must be getting grumpy in my old age (no offense to those older than me).

    Brandie's book scared you out into the desert?

    And what about those of us who are younger than you? Are we allowed to be offended? Please? :w00t:

    First, no, not Brandie's book. More along the original topic of The Thread.

    Second, why would younger people be offended as an old man gets grumpy? If it makes you happy, though, I don't mind if you are offended.

  • Lynn Pettis (3/16/2012)


    GSquared (3/16/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (3/16/2012)


    I think I'll go join the Guard Hippo at my Tent in the Desert. I really must be getting grumpy in my old age (no offense to those older than me).

    Brandie's book scared you out into the desert?

    And what about those of us who are younger than you? Are we allowed to be offended? Please? :w00t:

    First, no, not Brandie's book. More along the original topic of The Thread.

    Second, why would younger people be offended as an old man gets grumpy? If it makes you happy, though, I don't mind if you are offended.

    Well, you said "no offense to those older than me", so I wondered why those younger were being excluded. πŸ™‚ I mean, isn't that kind of ageism, and all that? πŸ˜›

    (I've got age on the mind since I had my birthday on Wednesday. And I'm in a goofy mood because ... well because I'm in a goofy mood. Nothing at all unusual about that, I suppose.)

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  • GSquared (3/16/2012)


    (I've got age on the mind since I had my birthday on Wednesday. And I'm in a goofy mood because ... well because I'm in a goofy mood. Nothing at all unusual about that, I suppose.)

    Belated Happy Birthday feliciatations.

    GSquared (3/16/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (3/16/2012)


    I think I'll go join the Guard Hippo at my Tent in the Desert. I really must be getting grumpy in my old age (no offense to those older than me).

    Brandie's book scared you out into the desert?

    I thought the same thing. @=)

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  • GSquared (3/16/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (3/16/2012)


    GSquared (3/16/2012)


    Lynn Pettis (3/16/2012)


    I think I'll go join the Guard Hippo at my Tent in the Desert. I really must be getting grumpy in my old age (no offense to those older than me).

    Brandie's book scared you out into the desert?

    And what about those of us who are younger than you? Are we allowed to be offended? Please? :w00t:

    First, no, not Brandie's book. More along the original topic of The Thread.

    Second, why would younger people be offended as an old man gets grumpy? If it makes you happy, though, I don't mind if you are offended.

    Well, you said "no offense to those older than me", so I wondered why those younger were being excluded. πŸ™‚ I mean, isn't that kind of ageism, and all that? πŸ˜›

    (I've got age on the mind since I had my birthday on Wednesday. And I'm in a goofy mood because ... well because I'm in a goofy mood. Nothing at all unusual about that, I suppose.)

    Yes, yes I did say "no offense to those older than me", but that was because I didn't want those individuals to think they were being grumpy as well. If someone younger takes offense to me saying I'm getting grumpy in my old age, I think they may be more sensitive than me.

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