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  • RE: Multiple databases in ORACLE - How?

    [font="Verdana"]Oracle has fairly comprehensive support for shared schemas. These are implemented (last time I looked at Oracle) as "application users" where the user has rights to own objects, but...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    [font="Verdana"]honk forth love if. Had to be said.

    I think when someone posts a technical question in txt speak, then yes, the posted questions are certainly getting worse. Eeek!

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    [font="Verdana"]The part of the joke that wasn't necessarily obvious to the young'ns is that RPG is a generator. It generates COBOL code.

    Oh, never mind. I thought it was...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob Hovious (8/4/2009)


    Or we could just go back to flat files. Screw relational AND hierarchical databases.

    [font="Verdana"]Here's a suggestion: we could come up with a better language for...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Paul White (8/4/2009)


    You can all relax in the knowledge that everything will be smaller and faster if we store it in XML rather than traditional relational structures.

    [font="Verdana"]Whew! Thank goodness...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Steve Jones - Editor (7/30/2009)


    I know many of you by your names here. Changing them around will have my head spinning.

    [font="Verdana"]Not a bad way to get rid of condensation. ...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    A Volunteer Formerly Known as . (7/30/2009)


    Bruce: Do you mean I am THE only volunteer here? :w00t:

    [font="Verdana"]Yes, of course that's what I meant! 😛

    No, you're...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Lynn Pettis (7/30/2009)


    Okay, nice name change A Volunteer Formerly Known as .. 😉

    [font="Verdana"]Hmm. I think it would be better as The, not A. After all, we don't...

  • RE: Why cursors

    Bryan Wright (7/29/2009)


    Who argues about it? I think everyone is in agreement that there bad.

    [font="Verdana"]I would, for one.

    They're bad in many circumstances, I agree. However, they are perfectly...

  • RE: Why cursors

    [font="Verdana"]What?!! Then what would we argue about all day? :-P[/font]

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GSquared (7/28/2009)


    Oddly enough, I'm comfortably familiar with "internecine", but haven't the foggiest what "3LESP" means.

    [font="Verdana"]Me either. I'm guessing something like "third level something-or-rather support person/service provider", but who knows...[/font]

  • RE: Constraining data across servers

    [font="Verdana"]From a database architecture point of view, I would have to ask one question: why are the applications on different servers?

    If they are on separate servers for a reason, it's...

  • RE: how to write a function that executes Sub- Store procedure

    [font="Verdana"]I think the original author to the question is using the word "function" in the generic "block of functional code" sense, rather than the SQL function sense. The examples...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (7/23/2009)


    What about Delany's Dhalgren?

    [font="Verdana"]Nah. I don't dislike kids that much.[/font]

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    David Webb (7/23/2009)


    For the younger crowd, I'd stay away from Delaney.

    [font="Verdana"]I don't think any of us were recommending him for younger readers. 🙂

    Having said that, I'd be happy giving...

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