What's up with the perl market?

[AtW]

DB2 is sh1t too - IBM support is pretty much useless and you can't really do much yourself as otherwise you might invalidate their support contract: a con designed to rip you off of course.

What really FKING pissed me off about DB2 is that stored procedures support was sh1t comparing to Sybase/MS SQL: of all the databases T-SQL is really the best, and Sybase is really gold standard of databases, pity they are going down now - just proves that being the best does not always mean being successful

[PRC1964]

You should go for PICK the multi-valued database that beat them all.

Well maybe 20 years ago.

[thunderlizard]

My experience is limited, but I've never seen a perl scripter actually finish a project. They just kind of continue to exist in a state of fluctuting perl-scriptiness. Maybe that's why they just want permanent perl people.

[Board Game Geek]

Anyone remember DataEase? Or Fox Pro with it's Mount Rushmore goodness ?

[threaded]

I remember dBase as a rip of of Retreive. Made quite a bit of easy money going around and increasing the number of handles in the DOS system.ini, IIRC. It was one of the things that taught me just how fscking useless most of these people who play at programming on PCs really are. Yet took me quite a while to realise the whole of the IT market was going to head that way: people coding stuff up without a clue to what is actually going off under the hood.

[Euro-commuter]

Anyone remember DataEase? Or Fox Pro with it's Mount Rushmore goodness ?

Yeah! I remember DEASE.

[Euro-commuter]

I remember dBase as a rip of of Retreive. Made quite a bit of easy money going around and increasing the number of handles in the DOS system.ini, IIRC. It was one of the things that taught me just how fscking useless most of these people who play at programming on PCs really are. Yet took me quite a while to realise the whole of the IT market was going to head that way: people coding stuff up without a clue to what is actually going off under the hood.

My God, I had forgotten that. Good thing you don't have to do anything like that with Windows, it just works straight out of the box (c) Dim Prawn.

[Vito]

Real men run DB2 UDB

Real men don't have a clue what the heck this thread is talking about!!

[VectraMan]

Real men don't have a clue what the heck this thread is talking about!!

Real men wouldn't have bothered with an off the shelf solution and just implemented their own in assembler.

[threaded]

It was better when it was still called Vulcan...

And didn't it first come out as dBase II, there never actually ever being a dBase I?