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by jklowden 11y ago
I didn't mean to suggest the government invented seat belts. It did mandate them, not only wearing them, but circa 1964 their very availability in cars. The industry, and a fair number of car buyers, didn't want buyers to be remin
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by jklowden 11y ago
Free-market ideology if you ask me. The first sentence suggests the hapless government wants to spent $4 billion on research for something you you can have today for $20K. A little later it mentions Washington's "time and billions
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by jklowden 11y ago
You're not thinking like a businessman. That purchase from Sybase 23 years ago and this announcement today have no technical justification. They're business decisions. The technical aspect is just a cost of doing business. Th
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by jklowden 11y ago
Don't hold your breath. The EULA for SQL Server prohibits publishing benchmark results. It's not completely self-serving. Back when magazines were made of paper, "DBMS Faceoff!" articles sold a lot of copy, and generat
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by jklowden 11y ago
If you think about what a DBMS does, you'll find the list looks a lot like an OS: I/O, memory management, task scheduling, resource arbitration. And the DBMS makes guarantees the OS does not, not least of which is transactions.
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by jklowden 11y ago
Intellectually, somewhat, perhaps. Sybase was a distinct implementation. When it came on the market, Ingres IIRC was still based on QUEL. Sybase had its new T-SQL language and a novel design that made it feasible to use for OLTP. At tha
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by jklowden 11y ago
Oh, then that's your problem. MERGE is standard, and has clear semantics. UPSERT is nonstandard, and semantics vary among implementations. Microsoft doesn't need to make SQL Server look like MySQL. Quite the other way around.
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by jklowden 11y ago
I was taught that the first principle of security is physical security. Once your attacker has possession of your hardware, decrypting the data is only a matter of time. They don't even need a brute force attack. If decryption works wi
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by jklowden 11y ago
Little known fact: the legal regime in the US shields the utility from liability in case of accident. Recall the utility wasn't sued after Three Mile Island. If utilities were made liable for harm for nuclear disasters, how long do yo
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by jklowden 12y ago
I like Date's SQL and Relational Theory ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022879.do ). It won't tell you about the latest changes to the standard, but it will help you get a handle on the relational mod
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by jklowden 12y ago
> if he actually believes he can control the fate of his country even so slightly, I'm afraid he's delusional He's the elected leader of sovereign nation. If you don't think repudiating the debt is an option (good or