Funny, very internal, remarks from the OakTable

I know, I know. The internal mailing list we use in the OakTable Network is for exactly that - internal communications.

But now and then it's hard not to let others know what goes on there. This is such a case. I will not name names, and I will not disclose the real reason for these brilliant submissions - but I hope you'll enjoy it.

Here's the first entry:

While I understand your point here, I have to say that using high performance technology to increase the performance of a system where the architecture is broken is a suboptimal approach.

When teaching design classes (design? does database design training still exist, but I digress) I used an example of going shopping to show the benefits of using the array interface:

If I'm going to the store for milk, butter, bread and cheese I can either drive to the store, buy milk, drive home, put the milk in the refrigerator, drive back to the
store, buy butter, drive home, put the butter in the refrigerator etc, or can drive to the store, pick up a basket, put the milk, butter, bread, cheese and beer in the basket, buy everything in the basket, drive home, make a cheese sandwich and drink a beer while congratulating myself for having optimized the shopping task.

Here's the second entry (in response, of course):

DB corruption:

I drive to the store for milk, butter and cheese. I pick up the milk at the back of the store and see that there is a special on beer. Put milk, butter and cheese on the floor of aisle 7, and load basket with beer. On making way to checkout counter, decide that basket is too heavy, so stop in aisle 3 to have a couple of the beers. Find some crisps in aisle 3 - grab some of them and munch them down. Now thirsty again, down 4 more beers from basket in aisle 3. Remember something about needing to come to the shop to get some milk and cheese. Head down to the milk section - have a couple of beers on the way. Oh look, som dufus has left some milk, cheese and butter on the floor in aisle 7. Celebrate with another brewsky. Start singing my favourite football song, washed down with another ale. Vaguely recall something about chilk and meese. Ah what the hell - where's the beer aisle.

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That's all, folks. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did :-).

Mogens