Re: consolidation of multiple rows

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> DA Morgan wrote:

>>> DA Morgan wrote:
>>>>>> If you know the names Date and Codd you should know who you are
>>>>>> addressing: Joe Celko.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not a name I am familiar with.
>>>>
>>>> Says much about your attitude toward our profession.
>>>>
>>>> Enlighten yourself:
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Celko
>>>> http://www.dbmsmag.com/artin301.html#A000009
>>>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Wikipedia%22+and+%22Joe+Celko%22&btnG=Google+Search 
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not necessarily.  There are a lot of top notch programmers and DBA's 
>>> who have never heard of Joe Celko.
>>

>>

>>

> 
> Quite incorrect.  Right off the top of my head I can probably name a 
> dozen I know personally who haven't heard of him.  He's well known in 
> some circles, but definitely not all.

The operative phrase here is "top notch." If they ever took even a basic class on normalization they could not have missed the name Boyce. If they learned more in C than "Hello World" they'd know who Dennis is.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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