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  • April 26, 2012 at 9:58 am

    #1479876

    L' Eomot Inversé (4/26/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (4/25/2012)

    capn.hector (4/25/2012)

    JAZZ Master (4/25/2012)

    crookj (4/25/2012)

    WOTD - Spock

    lizard

    dinosaur

    COBOL

    You shouldn't mention that here - young innocents may read it.

    That programming language is suitable for Kobolds and Galgenmänner and even, at a stretch, human beings(*). It was of course invented by a naval lady with the assistance of her Klabautermänner (an Admiral always has plenty of boat goblin assistants, and we can see from the language definition that their evil sense of humour was involved here).

    (*) Only masochistic human beings, those needing severe punishment for their sins, and some others.

    Supporting 50 year old Cobol programmes is an exquisitely horrible punishment; you can get a good DBA to do almost anything if you can threaten her with doing that as her only alternative and make it stick. This doesn't work with bad DBAs of course, because they already think in COBOL; you can tell from their over-use of cursors, variables, and while loops contolled by a counter variables and avoidance of set-based code that they really want to be able to write their queries in Cobol instead of in SQL.

    I really miss MOVE CORRESPONDING. It was much simpler than MERGE ... INSERT.

    😀

  • April 26, 2012 at 10:50 am

    #1479913

    Revenant (4/26/2012)

    L' Eomot Inversé (4/26/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (4/25/2012)

    capn.hector (4/25/2012)

    JAZZ Master (4/25/2012)

    crookj (4/25/2012)

    WOTD - Spock

    lizard

    dinosaur

    COBOL

    You shouldn't mention that here - young innocents may read it.

    That programming language is suitable for Kobolds and Galgenmänner and even, at a stretch, human beings(*). It was of course invented by a naval lady with the assistance of her Klabautermänner (an Admiral always has plenty of boat goblin assistants, and we can see from the language definition that their evil sense of humour was involved here).

    (*) Only masochistic human beings, those needing severe punishment for their sins, and some others.

    Supporting 50 year old Cobol programmes is an exquisitely horrible punishment; you can get a good DBA to do almost anything if you can threaten her with doing that as her only alternative and make it stick. This doesn't work with bad DBAs of course, because they already think in COBOL; you can tell from their over-use of cursors, variables, and while loops contolled by a counter variables and avoidance of set-based code that they really want to be able to write their queries in Cobol instead of in SQL.

    I really miss MOVE CORRESPONDING. It was much simpler than MERGE ... INSERT.

    😀

    WOTD.... assembler!

  • April 26, 2012 at 11:38 am

    #1479940

    L' Eomot Inversé (4/26/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (4/25/2012)

    capn.hector (4/25/2012)

    JAZZ Master (4/25/2012)

    crookj (4/25/2012)

    WOTD - Spock

    lizard

    dinosaur

    COBOL

    You shouldn't mention that here - young innocents may read it.

    That programming language is suitable for Kobolds and Galgenmänner and even, at a stretch, human beings(*). It was of course invented by a naval lady with the assistance of her Klabautermänner (an Admiral always has plenty of boat goblin assistants, and we can see from the language definition that their evil sense of humour was involved here).

    (*) Only masochistic human beings, those needing severe punishment for their sins, and some others.

    Supporting 50 year old Cobol programmes is an exquisitely horrible punishment; you can get a good DBA to do almost anything if you can threaten her with doing that as her only alternative and make it stick. This doesn't work with bad DBAs of course, because they already think in COBOL; you can tell from their over-use of cursors, variables, and while loops contolled by a counter variables and avoidance of set-based code that they really want to be able to write their queries in Cobol instead of in SQL.

    Hmm, supported and developed a COBOL application for 11 years, I did. Think you do that I still think in COBOLese? ;-):-P

    That particular app is now about 30 or so, and still being used by a former employer.

  • April 26, 2012 at 11:40 am

    #1479942

    Freedom!

  • April 26, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    #1479980

    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)

    Freedom!

    Liberty

    Tom

  • April 27, 2012 at 8:41 am

    #1480480

    L' Eomot Inversé (4/26/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)

    Freedom!

    Liberty

    "We hold these truths to be self evident."

  • April 27, 2012 at 8:48 am

    #1480487

    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)

    Freedom!

    Wallace?

    "El" Jerry.

    "A watt of Ottawa" - Gerardo Galvan

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  • April 27, 2012 at 9:13 am

    #1480512

    Daniel Bowlin (4/27/2012)

    L' Eomot Inversé (4/26/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)

    Freedom!

    Liberty

    "We hold these truths to be self evident."

    Independence

  • April 27, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    #1480672

    EL Jerry (4/27/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)

    Freedom!

    Wallace?

    Gromit

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
    I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

  • April 27, 2012 at 2:16 pm

    #1480677

    EL Jerry (4/27/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)

    Freedom!

    Wallace?

    Gromit

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
    _______________________________________________
    I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
    SQL RNNR
    Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
    Learn Extended Events

  • April 27, 2012 at 2:36 pm

    #1480700

    SQLRNNR (4/27/2012)

    EL Jerry (4/27/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)

    Freedom!

    Wallace?

    Gromit

    tie down

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    For performance Issues see how we like them posted here: How to Post Performance Problems - Gail Shaw[/url]

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  • April 30, 2012 at 5:54 am

    #1481163

    capn.hector (4/27/2012)

    SQLRNNR (4/27/2012)

    EL Jerry (4/27/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)

    Freedom!

    Wallace?

    Gromit

    tie down

    kangaroo

  • April 30, 2012 at 6:35 am

    #1481193

    vacation (just came back after a week off -- what'd I miss?)

    +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    Check out my blog at https://pianorayk.wordpress.com/

  • April 30, 2012 at 7:18 am

    #1481218

    anthony.green (4/30/2012)

    capn.hector (4/27/2012)

    SQLRNNR (4/27/2012)

    EL Jerry (4/27/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)

    Freedom!

    Wallace?

    Gromit

    tie down

    kangaroo

    captain

  • April 30, 2012 at 10:08 am

    #1481337

    Daniel Bowlin (4/30/2012)

    anthony.green (4/30/2012)

    capn.hector (4/27/2012)

    SQLRNNR (4/27/2012)

    EL Jerry (4/27/2012)

    Lynn Pettis (4/26/2012)

    Freedom!

    Wallace?

    Gromit

    tie down

    kangaroo

    captain

    Ship.

    "El" Jerry.

    "A watt of Ottawa" - Gerardo Galvan

    To better understand your help request, please follow these best practices.[/url]

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