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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.
Monday September 05, 2005
07:01 PM
Transactions? Who needs transactions?
Some of you may recall how the MySQL docs used to argue that foreign key constraints were a bad idea and did not belong in the database. They no longer include this embarrassing discussion in their docs ("hey, I got rid of 'strict' and my program worked!") but many of their users still don't get it.
Witness a recent
Do I really need to say anything?
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I was going to say something... (Score:1)
Don't get me started... (Score:1)
The day that MySQL gets sequences, I'll stop calling it a piece of useless low-end shit. I promise.
Re:Don't get me started... (Score:1)
Heh, I remember a time when SQL Server (yes, the Microsoftian version) didn't have sequences. I was doing a porting project from Oracle and they actually ended up implementing sequences as a server side procedure. It was ghastly.
Re:Don't get me started... (Score:2)
Re:Don't get me started... (Score:1)
Re:Don't get me started... (Score:1)
Re:Don't get me started... (Score:1)
*sigh* project ended somewhere in 2002. Looking at the date submitted, it seems that I may have just missed its' arrival on CPAN.
At least I'll be better informed in the future; thanks.
Recent? (Score:1)
Incidentally, the Slashcode engine does allow you to see the year of a post, it's just not set to by default. When I found out, I was quite pleased, because it can be very confusing not knowing the year of a comment. To do so, look under your Preferences, in the Homepage section. The Date/Time Format setting is near the top.
Re:Recent? (Score:2)
The year is also in the link.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:Recent? (Score:2)
Wow. Five years ago. How the hell did I miss that? Bizarre.