Re: IBM to hire Gumby!
This is not a technical support thread — it's an off-topic April Fools' spin-off that degenerates into banter and personal jibes between Ian Michael Gumby, Serge Rielau (IBM DB2) and Obnoxio The Clown, trading IQ insults and South Park/humour digs. The only technical content is a passing exchange about DB2's SELECT FROM INSERT INTO syntax (with customers reportedly asking for SELECT FROM MERGE) and Serge's remark that SQL dialect is just a parser-level matter. No problem is posed and no resolution is recorded.
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Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > Dude! > > If you were only posting yesterday! :-( > > Look, here's a free clue. > Take your IQ and Serge's IQ. Add them together. > Now you're getting close to my IQ. > > As boastful as it may sound, the reality is that its probably closer to > the truth. :-P Michael the Humble, For that to be true my IQ would need to be negative which I don't think is within the domain of IQs, Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab Wh
Serge Rielau wrote: > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: >> Dude! >> >> If you were only posting yesterday! :-( >> >> Look, here's a free clue. >> Take your IQ and Serge's IQ. Add them together. >> Now you're getting close to my IQ. >> >> As boastful as it may sound, the reality is that its probably closer to >> the truth. :-P > Michael the Humble, > > For that to be true my IQ would need to be negative which I don't think > is within the domain of IQs, Anybody who thinks SELECT FROM INSERT INTO is a good idea is a strong candidate, though ... :o> -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.
Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > Serge Rielau wrote: >> Ian Michael Gumby wrote: >>> Dude! >>> >>> If you were only posting yesterday! :-( >>> >>> Look, here's a free clue. >>> Take your IQ and Serge's IQ. Add them together. >>> Now you're getting close to my IQ. >>> >>> As boastful as it may sound, the reality is that its probably closer >>> to the truth. :-P >> Michael the Humble, >> >> For that to be true my IQ would need to be negative which I don't >> think is within the domain of IQs, > > Anybody who thinks SELECT FROM INSERT INTO is a good idea is a strong > candidate, though ... :o> Oh, you're just jealous because it wasn't your idea :-) -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab
On Apr 4, 2:17 pm, Serge Rielau <srie...@ca.ibm.com> wrote: > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > Dude! > > > If you were only posting yesterday! :-( > > > Look, here's a free clue. > > Take your IQ and Serge's IQ. Add them together. > > Now you're getting close to my IQ. > > > As boastful as it may sound, the reality is that its probably closer to > > the truth. :-P > > Michael the Humble, > > For that to be true my IQ would need to be negative which I don't think > is within the domain of IQs, > Serge, I believe an eggplant shows more on an EEG than you. Calling you brain dead would be an insult to cadavers everywhere. Actually a cadaver has more of a sense of humor. I don't know if its just you or the fact you've been in Canada too long. (Sorry to the Canadians, just go watch some of the South Park movies or South Park episodes.) Now you missed out on the April 1 jokes, and the only, *only* acceptable excuse is that you had so much to drink on St. Patrick's day that you didn't come out of your self induced coma until April 2nd.
Serge Rielau wrote: > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> Serge Rielau wrote: >>> Ian Michael Gumby wrote: >>>> Dude! >>>> >>>> If you were only posting yesterday! :-( >>>> >>>> Look, here's a free clue. >>>> Take your IQ and Serge's IQ. Add them together. >>>> Now you're getting close to my IQ. >>>> >>>> As boastful as it may sound, the reality is that its probably closer >>>> to the truth. :-P >>> Michael the Humble, >>> >>> For that to be true my IQ would need to be negative which I don't >>> think is within the domain of IQs, >> Anybody who thinks SELECT FROM INSERT INTO is a good idea is a strong >> candidate, though ... :o> > Oh, you're just jealous because it wasn't your idea :-) How is the take up for that feature going, then? -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.
Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > Serge Rielau wrote: >> Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >>> Serge Rielau wrote: >>>> Ian Michael Gumby wrote: >>>>> Dude! >>>>> >>>>> If you were only posting yesterday! :-( >>>>> >>>>> Look, here's a free clue. >>>>> Take your IQ and Serge's IQ. Add them together. >>>>> Now you're getting close to my IQ. >>>>> >>>>> As boastful as it may sound, the reality is that its probably >>>>> closer to the truth. :-P >>>> Michael the Humble, >>>> >>>> For that to be true my IQ would need to be negative which I don't >>>> think is within the domain of IQs, >>> Anybody who thinks SELECT FROM INSERT INTO is a good idea is a strong >>> candidate, though ... :o> >> Oh, you're just jealous because it wasn't your idea :-) > How is the take up for that feature going, then? Pretty good actually. Customers are even asking from SELECT FORM MERGE. Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab
Serge Rielau wrote: > SELECT FORM MERGE. I think I can see why IBM's SQL implementation is so shit... :o) -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com The following is a disclaimer and a protest at the collection, retention and sharing of my personal mail by the morally bankrupt state. By adding a string of key words, it will guarantee that each and every mail that I send will now need to be manually viewed as it is picked up by the auto scan software. If every person in the UK does exactly the same, then the entire system will quickly become so unmanageable, so unwieldy that it will become unworkable. Key words: bomb, assassinate, president, brown, Osama, Obama, Sarkozy, Merkel, government, target, location, rocket, grenade, al-Qaeda, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, UK, America, guns, jets, bombs, machine-gun, terrorists, MP's, pigs, troughs, France, Germany, Italy, nuclear, Korea. PPS If you are reading this because you've picked up the above keywords: I hope your parents are proud of what you have become. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.
Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > On Apr 4, 2:17 pm, Serge Rielau <srie...@ca.ibm.com> wrote: >> Ian Michael Gumby wrote: >>> Dude! >>> If you were only posting yesterday! :-( >>> Look, here's a free clue. >>> Take your IQ and Serge's IQ. Add them together. >>> Now you're getting close to my IQ. >>> As boastful as it may sound, the reality is that its probably closer to >>> the truth. :-P >> Michael the Humble, >> >> For that to be true my IQ would need to be negative which I don't think >> is within the domain of IQs, That many people would interpret as self deprecating humor. > I believe an eggplant shows more on an EEG than you. Calling you brain > dead would be an insult to cadavers everywhere. That most people would interpret as an insult. > Actually a cadaver has more of a sense of humor. I don't know if its > just you or the fact you've been in Canada too long. (Sorry to the > Canadians, just go watch some of the South Park movies or South Park > episodes.) Funny, I thought South Park would be right up your alley. I found it funny the first 10 minutes. Too crude for my taste. > Now you missed out on the April 1 jokes, and the only, *only* > acceptable excuse is that you had so much to drink on St. Patrick's > day that you didn't come out of your self induced coma until April > 2nd. Oh, ballot stuffing. I get it. Start a thread on April fools and then randomly keep adding unprovoked insults and topic changes for the next weeks. Cheers Serge PS: Some nice Canadian humor: www.cbc.ca/thedebaters/ German humor (In german shame on them): www.daserste.de/satiregipfel/ -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab
Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > Serge Rielau wrote: >> SELECT FORM MERGE. > I think I can see why IBM's SQL implementation is so shit... :o) Huh? Implementation is code. You seem to be referring to the dialect itself. Language goes only skin deep. Parsers do that. If I wanted I could teach DB2 PL/SQL or SPL or TSQL. Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab