This is triply silly. If the Guru had read just a teensy bit of linked list literature, surely he would have seen Nick Wirths way to link both ways with just one pointer.
It's only been around since, like 1972
This is triply silly. If the Guru had read just a teensy bit of linked list literature, surely he would have seen Nick Wirths way to link both ways with just one pointer.
It's only been around since, like 1972
I've been oracle-free for two years now, so I've forgotten 95% of the headaches. The best ones I can remember:
The Java installer. It sucked really bad. First
off it wouldnt run at all with the standard version 2.37 of Java, you
had to download an install a 11MB patch to Java first. Then it
would run, but all I remember is it asking a lot of unanswerable
questions, informing me my disk with 23Gb free didnt have enough space,
as some integer overflowed and it thought I had -1433GB free.
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After finally getting it installed, it was time to make a test
database. You'd think by now you could type "dbnew foo
/tables=... /fields=....". Nope.
There's a horribly convoluted 57 pages in the manual as to how to
get a db started, and a lot of handwaving. Crazy.
Particularly annoying was having to generate all kinds of
tables for Oracle's internal use. When you go
to buy a jar of Heinz ketchup, do they require you
to fill out a purchase order for their tomato squisher?
When you buy a car, do you have to go order them some iron ore?
I kept looking and looking, assuming I was mssing the little blue button labeled "make me a database in 2 seconds". Just couldnt seem to find it.
Finally I sat down and wrote some code to do all the necessary
things in one fell swoop. Why wasnt this done on day
one of version 1.0? Yes, I know, there are some
tools that allegedly do this, but they looked far to horrible to ever
use.
That was just the tippy-tip-top of the iceberg. All else has faded from memory. Whew.
if we were still in a cold war with the russkies, we should have dropped Oracle on them.
Free CD's. Please use.