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  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    Max (1/30/2009)


    Personally, I think we should scour the earth of all rdbms and use an abacus, ok, at a push flat files, but there my generosity ends.

    [font="Verdana"]We could run our...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (1/30/2009)


    Even this thread, as fun as it's been and as much as it's provided a strain relief for some of us, is pretty nasty as it is and...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    RBarryYoung (1/29/2009)


    [h4]You don't know the power of the Dark Side![/h4]

    [font="Verdana"]I'm sure if it had more power, it wouldn't be quite so dark.[/font]

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Greg Edwards (1/29/2009)


    I'd say that depends on if you got the correct results.:w00t:

    [font="Verdana"]Yup. I added a cross join as well. And the full outer joins are on three...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (1/29/2009)


    would you post the URL for the thread you quoted me on, please?

    "The Post"

    [font="Verdana"]For the URL of the thread... just look up. Yep, at the top...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Michael Valentine Jones (1/29/2009)


    Is that a serious question, or were you trying to provide an example of a bad question?

    [font="Verdana"]Yes. 😀

    I think this would be a bad choice of...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    [font="Verdana"]I've just written my very first query containing two full outer joins. Is that bad?[/font]

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    GSquared (1/29/2009)


    I haven't used Oracle or DB 2. Tried MySQL nearly a decade ago and couldn't get the hang of it (was very new to databases back then). ...

  • RE: I like something to help, please

    GSquared (1/29/2009)


    Bruce, on another thread with this same guy, we decided that the probem is that he's apparently using Babel Fish to translate from Spanish. It gets incomprehensible really...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    [font="Verdana"]I guess we are verging from the original topic.

    I've always found security is a better mechanism for enforcing access to database objects. Oh, there's a feature I like in...

  • RE: I like something to help, please

    [font="Verdana"]Can I make a suggestion?

    If you take the time to post some background to your question, include some sort of idea of what you are actually trying to do, and...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (1/29/2009)


    Um ... actually ... it's this thread right here that you're posting in.

    [font="Verdana"]Ooops. And I mentioned cursors. Run![/font]

    GSquared (1/29/2009)


    Someone started making jokes about the thread waking up...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (1/29/2009)


    You'll fit right in. Just don't upset "The Thread".

    [font="Verdana"]I'm too scared to even ask! Let me guess though... some sort of über-discussion that has been running...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    [font="Verdana"]Personally, I'd be a little scared about an ETL process that relies on triggers.

    In my past experience, the best thing I have found when designing systems that use triggers is...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Alvin Ramard (1/29/2009)


    I'm not sure a newbie to this site should be reading this thread, at least not the last 2 days worth. He's gonna be corrupted for life...

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