Re: flagship sunk
Serge Rielau wrote: > Ah yes.... advise from the Oracle product manager is certainly something > I would follow. Clearly you have IBM's best interest in mind Mark. Well - not really. I do think the Informix people on this forum are getting a raw deal. And I have known a lot of them here for well over a decade (albeit as able adversaries). So I think I get to comment. To paraphrase Quentin Crisp "I am one of the stately lurkers of c.d.i". > > BTW, don't you have something like business conduct guidelines in your > shop or is spreading FUD in competitive newsgroups indeed part of your > job description? Yep - we have business conduct guidelines. I don't think I'm in breach.
Mark Townsend wrote: > And I have known a lot of them here for well over a > decade (albeit as able adversaries). Well - turns out it's a little over 7 years (at least as far as google is concerned). Just seems like a decade
A lurker? Really? Time for a dictionary check.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Townsend [mailto:markbtownsend@comcast.net] > Posted At: Friday, January 27, 2006 11:19 AM > Posted To: comp.databases.informix > Conversation: flagship sunk > Subject: Re: flagship sunk > > > Mark Townsend wrote: > > And I have known a lot of them here for well over a > > decade (albeit as able adversaries). > > Well - turns out it's a little over 7 years (at least as far > as google > is concerned). Just seems like a decade Maybe the select was from an Oracle DB and it doesn't under dates very well :-) Paul Watson Tel: +44 1414161772 Mob: +44 7818003457 GO FURTHER with DB2 GET THERE FASTER with Informix. Attend the IDUG 2006 North America Conference. Tampa, Florida, USA. 7-11 May 2006. Visit http://www.iiug.org/conf for more information.
Mark Townsend said: > > Mark Townsend wrote: >> And I have known a lot of them here for well over a >> decade (albeit as able adversaries). > > Well - turns out it's a little over 7 years (at least as far as google > is concerned). Just seems like a decade A bit like married life, really. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com