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Subject:RE: Coincidence? From:"Gillespie, Stephen (Contractor)" <Stephen -dot- Gillespie -at- Persnet -dot- Navy -dot- Mil> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 2 May 2003 14:25:00 -0500
BTW, John (and equally off-topic), our DBA here sent us this ref today about
the 'Father of the Relational Database' recently passing - very interesting.
Edgar F. Codd, Father of Relational Databases: 1923-2003
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From: John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- book -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 2:06 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Coincidence?
As retribution for littering the list with a simple, off topic post, for
which I'm sorry, I thought I'd post a little story.
I've started defining stuff in my documentation for the Data base Admins
(DBAs) in my group. Understand that I'm not a DBA, and know only this much
|......|} about SQL.
However, I have some cool tools that are helping me to extra information
about our databases.
Anyway, I extracted a bunch of information, one aspect of it I was not
familiar with. At the same time, I remembered seeing in one of our DBAs
cube, a whole bunch of SQL books, so I went to him and said "Jon, I saw an
SQL Bible in your office, mind if I borrow it to try to figure something out
before I come bug you-guys?" His response was, and I quote "Cool!"
Within 5 minutes after I got back to my desk, there was a message from him
with "Do you want to go over {application} at 2:30 PM this Friday?"
I'd been trying to get him to set time aside for this for almost 3 weeks.
Coincidence?
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
212-414-6656
icq: 178047452
aim: jposada1
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