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Straight from the Camels mouth, 2nd edition:
laziness
The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find
useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also
hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris.
impatience
The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or
at least that pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris.
hubris
Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say
bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and impatience.
There's certainly no shortage of that last one around here.
Oh, and this really is on topic. Think of it as a self-improvement course for DBA's
Jared
"Mohan, Ross"
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I agree with larry wall on the laziness of programmers (and DBAs, by association?) is a virtue......
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 2:10 PM
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Naaah, I'm just the proverbial lazy DBA. Gene received many replies,
including "it can't be done". Since he happened to point out that two of
them worked and produced the same results (an excellent sanity check), I
thought it would benefit everyone by telling us which ones worked. I
realize
that we could have each tried each of the strategies and discovered the two
for ourselves, but my principle is if there is an easier way, why not?
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:35 AM
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Uh, amen. Isn't that the purpose of the list?
Or is there a *third* list, one "on topic", a second "off topic", and a third where all the answers really are?
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:55 AM
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Gene - Now that you've gotten your answer, would you mind to post both of
the methods that you found to work so that the rest of us could learn?
Thanks.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:05 AM
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Hi.
This is just to thank all who replied to my post. Based on what I read, I have got two different ways of calculating that number and they seem to produce the same result.
thank you all (you know who you are)!!!!
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