use Perl

• I was going to say something... (Score:1)

  by sigzero (5768)

  But my mouth just kept opening and closing...
• Don't get me started... (Score:1)

  by Alias (5735)

  All this stuff about MySQL, and yet I seem to be the only person that gets pissed off about auto_increment and needs proper sequence support.
  
  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)

    by tinman (2063)

    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)

      by lachoy (1663)

      does MSSQL (or Sybase for that matter) have sequences now? I thought you accomplished this action only through IDENTITY fields...
      • Re:Don't get me started... (Score:1)

        by tinman (2063)

        I haven't had reason to work with MS-SQL since so I am not sure. A bit of Googling reveals that they don't. To be fair, this was more of being used to the control and convenience of Oracle sequences than anything else.
    • Re:Don't get me started... (Score:1)

      by Alias (5735)

      *cough* DBIx::MySQLSequence *cough*
      • Re:Don't get me started... (Score:1)

        by tinman (2063)

        *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)

  by kelan (5579)

  I agree with you, except about the discussion being recent. That topic and comment were posted to Slashdot in 1999.
  
  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)

    by jdavidb (1361)

    The year is also in the link.

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    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)

    by Ovid (2709)

    Wow. Five years ago. How the hell did I miss that? Bizarre.