[dba-Tech] OT, definitely, but priceless

I am growing way too old for debates of this sort, but on the other hand my
best friend and co-author Peter is almost exactly ten years older than I,
and he compels me to plod on. If you have not read Peter's post, then do a
Google and learn from an amazing mind. The fact that I have had the
privilege to co-author a few books with him, wow I don't even know how to
complete this sentence
What I am trying to say is that the best friend that I ever had in my life
is Peter Brawley. I love him to pieces and this will never go away.


On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Peter Brawley
<peter.brawley at earthlink.net>wrote:

> On 2012-11-04 2:11 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>
>> Ahh, yes excellent subject.
>>
>> Have you ever considered doing a matching book using Postgres? As this
>> database seem to be the next step in OS SQL database evolution.
>>
>> Right now Larry is in the process of throttling the goose to wring out the
>> last drop of profit, MySQL adoption has gone totally flat and at least
>> three
>> or four forks are now under development, until king Larry sues them to
>> oblivion. New developers are looking for the next set of options and
>> Postgres is really hot now.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> Interesting. Can you perchance point me at some market share numbers?
>
> P.
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dba-tech-bounces@**databaseadvisors.com<dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com>
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>> On Behalf Of Peter Brawley
>> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 11:04 AM
>> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT, definitely, but priceless
>>
>> On 2012-11-04 11:31 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>>
>>> "Our book" ?
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>> http://www.artfulsoftware.com/
>>
>> PB
>>
>> -----
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dba-tech-bounces@**databaseadvisors.com<dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com>
>>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces@**databaseadvisors.com<dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com>]
>>> On Behalf Of Peter Brawley
>>> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 7:45 AM
>>> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT, definitely, but priceless
>>>
>>> On 2012-11-04 8:58 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
>>>
>>>> Recently I came upon the following sentence, which reminded me of why I
>>>> dreamed of becoming a writer; but sadly, never achieved such exquisite
>>>> sculpture as this:
>>>>
>>>> The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a
>>>> large population of people, often with well-developed literary and
>>>> scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to
>>>> undertake analytical thought.
>>>>
>>>> -- Peter Medawar
>>>>
>>> Interesting.
>>> http://www.online-utility.org/**english/readability_test_and_**
>>> improve.jsp<http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp>
>>> gives that sentence a Fox Index of 27.
>>>
>>> The Fog Index is said to indicate the number of years of formal
>>> education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text
>>> on first reading. Many decades ago, a secretary (yep, that long ago) was
>>> quietly cursing a paper she was typing into the computer. When she was
>>> done, I put it through that year's version of the Fog Index. It said
>>> understanding the paper would require 82 years of education.
>>>
>>> By way of contrast, the first para of our book, which you wrote, gets a
>>> Fog Index of 10. Seems you accomplished your goal.
>>>
>>> PB
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Arthur
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