Re: flagship sunk
Mark Townsend said he sympathised with the Informix people on the comp.databases.informix forum and had lurked there for over seven years, and that he did not think he breached business conduct guidelines. Steve Pearson mocked the word lurker; Paul Watson and Obnoxio The Clown added jokes. A social exchange with no technical content.
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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