Happy Holidays

[Cringer]

He's making a database
He's sorting it twice
SELECT * from contacts WHERE behavior = 'nice'
SQL Clause is coming to town

Ok so it's not ABL, but still amusing

Happy holidays to everyone here. All the best for 2016.

 

[TheMadDBA]

Happy Holidays.

I am happy to say I am finally at a company that takes holiday time seriously and avoids massive implementations during Christmas and New Years

 

[Cringer]

That is indeed a bonus! I was meant to be dumping and loading a 400GB database over Christmas but decided to hand in my notice last week so they don't want me doing it any more.

 

[TheMadDBA]

lol wow... congrats on the new job I guess?

 

[Cringer]

Thanks - looking forward to it. Back working for an ISV rather than an end user.

 

[joey.jeremiah]

Happy holidays and congratulations!

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

Congrats Cringer, and all the best to you and yours for the holidays and new year.

So you're moving to an OpenEdge ISV, I hope

 

[Cringer]

Yep indeed - OpenEdge.
Legacy system in 10.2B08 (with ADM and ADM2 stuff. Eeek!) to maintain, and R&D on an 11.6 replacement product they're building from the ground up.

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

Sounds like a good opportunity. Still on a Windows back end?

 

[Cringer]

Yes heavily ensconced in Windows back ends for ease of maintenance for the end users I believe.

 

[TomBascom]

That sentence doesn't actually make any sense.

 

[Cringer]

Yes heavily ensconced in Windows back ends for perceived ease of maintenance for the end users I believe.

Ok I've rephrased it slightly Tom

 

[TomBascom]

That makes it so much better.

 

[GregTomkins]

Cringer seems like a stand-up guy, but ... I have heard of Windows back ends ... but until I actually see one with my own eyes, I can't 100% believe that they actually exist

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

Yeah. They exist. :-|