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RE: Another mutated variant of the 'PowerPoint makes you dumb

• To: "Alaric B Snell" <alaric@a...>, "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: RE: Another mutated variant of the 'PowerPoint makes you dumb' story
• From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@s...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:51:07 -0600
• Cc: "Michael Champion" <mc@x...>, <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Another mutated variant of the 'PowerPoint makes you dumb' story

Alaric B Snell <alaric@a...> writes;

> Jonathan Robie wrote:
> 
> > Reminds me of the people who thought that managers would be able to 
> > read
> > COBOL programs even if they couldn't program, since COBOL has such 
> > natural English-based syntax.
> 
> Apparently SQL was designed with similar goals, too, which is 
> why I now 
> have to suffer when the smart run-time query optimiser Gets 
> It Wrong and 
> I have to write contorted SQL to trick the optimiser into 
> scanning the 
> tables in the right order when doing a join :-)

Hmmm, must be using Oracle....

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