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Fruitcake

Oh look, even the world of databases has its religious fruitcakes. Thank goodness not everything is different when you switch sub-specialties.

I love this quote especially:

    The mistakes in original SQL that are relevant here:

    1. Invention of NULL, violating the principle of "no ad hoc-ery".

Uh, yeah. I guess I don't really hold to that principle either :)

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