The Foundation series actually has it's roots in a series of robot/detective novels.

The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, and Robots and Empire.

The main characters for...

I can't believe no one has mentioned Asimov yet!

I Robot inspired both of the fields Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Another of my favorites is William Gibson. Neuromancer is a great...

The way I look at it when I am trying to solve one of these problems:

You cannot let the computer win! If you do, it will start thinking it can...

My official title is Programmer/Analyst III

What I do is programming, analysis, DBA, webmaster, etc, etc, etc.

So what I really am is the system's b****!

What I tell non technical...

It is kind of scary how this type on unethical behavior is becoming more prevalent. For some reason, the stigma of cheating has lost the sting it once had....

Of course we all know that this is why dates should never be stored as anything other than date types. This is as much a database design problem as...

One of the difficulties is knowing when you are impared. As one of the other posters said, alchohol tends to increase your confidence making it more likely that you...

Very good! I would go so far as to suggest that experienced DBA's should read this as well as new ones.

It is sometimes easy to forget the...

I wonder how much the "geek" stereotype is responsible for the overall decline in Computer Science majors.

I also wonder if liking sci-fi by computer people has to do with our...

I think that any kind of bias should be eliminated. Maybe one day humanity will get to the place where people are people and skill is skill and it...

The problem I see with doing this, is how do you correlate everything together without having to spend an exorbitant amount of time? Without a way to easily access...

does the select query return the expected results when you run it directly on oracle using sqlplus?

in oracle you reference variables using : not @

Hope this helps

Dual is just a single row pseudo table in Oracle. The reason it is there is because Selects have to have a from clause to be parsed correctly. ...

From my perspective, I have been burned many times by departmentally developed systems that suddenly become business critical. My opinion is that if IT does not have the time...