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A: What is a Storage Definition Language (SDL)?

From Fundamentals of Database Systems (7th Edition) 7th Edition (pg 39) In DBMSs where a clear separation is maintained between the conceptual and internal levels, the DDL is used to specify the conceptual schema only. Another language, the storage definition language (SDL), is used to specif...

Paul White

2:46 AM

@SeanGallardy-Microsoft Thank you

Paul White

3:00 AM

@SeanGallardy-Microsoft Would lock classes qualify? I've always wondered what they are, and why they're useful/used.

Evan Carroll

> Other Kalifornia only things: you don't have to tell people you gave them AIDS

You don't have to tell people you have any STD. There is nothing special about AIDs one way or another. It's just another STD.

> Using the wrong pronoun for a person will get you fined/jail time

Only if you're their caretaker in a long-term care facility and you do it "willfully and repeatedly". And if you do who cares about you anyway? Seriously, someone says their name is Sue, call them Sue.

> They use more tax money to pay for subsidizes for illegals than citizens

hot2use

6:42 AM

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Good morning everyone.

hot2use

7:08 AM

@Lamak Evan has a long way to go

McNets

8:01 AM

Morning

ypercubeᵀᴹ

9:49 AM

@CharlieBrumbaugh Perhaps are you looking for a timestamp column: Automatic Initialization and Updating for TIMESTAMP

@McNets I didn't downvote but that query will not work in mysql.

McNets

@ypercubeᵀᴹ which question?

I see

ypercubeᵀᴹ

@McNets this one: dba.stackexchange.com/questions/195658/…

McNets

@ypercubeᵀᴹ Ok deleted

Thanks

Tom V

10:39 AM

This customer wants us to do "agile" (or at least their interpretation of it)

Every day is like this, It's noon and I haven't worked on anything yet, all we had were status and priority meetings

Updating tasks, UAT tickets is up next

I haven't seen such a painful process ever

Paul White

Find a nicer place to work.

Or get into sandwiches.

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Hm that's a thought, I could franchise.

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Michael Green

11:05 AM

@SeanGallardy-Microsoft I'd love to know what's happening under the covers with graph processing, and where that's heading. I've a horrible feeling, though, that the answer is "not a lot."

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

12:06 PM

@SeanGallardy-Microsoft Amen to that.

I have seen soooo many sites migrate data warehouse systems off servers with direct-attach storage onto consolidation environments and then wonder why they were so slow.

Worse yet, the storage admins insist that it's a problem with the data warehouse.

Fortunately, the site I'm working with took my advice to use direct-attach flash storage for our shiny new EDW platform.

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

1:05 PM

Hi @Phil. How's life up in the peak district?

Philᵀᴹ

@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells Not bad. Driving to work yesterday wasn't fun

Much snow

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

Such cold.

Philᵀᴹ

The main problem is that 1 council grits to a certain point on the A57, and the other council doesn't grit up to that point, so you end up with 4 miles of snow on the worst (highest) part of the road. Durr

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

'Not my problem' at its finest.

Tom V

1:32 PM

The piece of code I'm looking at either doesn't make sense and works by accident or the guy who wrote it is a genius and I don't how it works

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

I'd say the former is more likely than the latter.
Just going on personal experience, mind.

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