RE: OT: cryptography speech

From: Guy Hammond <guy.hammond_at_avt.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 07:28:14 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0036D153.20010816073559@fatcity.com>

Very dangerous. Like, Captain Kirk might say, "Mr. Spock, cancel the self destruct sequence" so Mr. Spock goes to his SQL*Plus terminal and types:

SQL> ALTER STARSHIP SET AUTODESTRUCT But at that moment, Dr McCoy walks in, slips in a puddle of Romulan Ale and grabs Mr. Spock for support, whose finger slips on to the ENTER key. The Enterprise replies:

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-435334: keyword not found where expected, substituting ON to continue...

:0)

g

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Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:46 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Funny. I liked the self-referential acronym bit. I don't like computers
(or computer languages or OSs) that "know" what I want to do but refuse
to
do it. An example from our own wonderful SQLPlus:

SQL> select table_name sys.dba_tables;
select table_name sys.dba_tables

                     *

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected

Now why doesn't it just put the "FROM" in and get on with it? It "knows"
what's missing!! Is it doing this to embarrass and annoy me or am I just
being paranoid (and if I'm going to be "nuts" I'd rather be paranoid than a
single-noid).

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