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It's time again for a reader special, and once again it's all The Beast In Black (there must be a story to that nick, no?).
"MySQL is not better than your SQL," he pontificated, "especially when it comes to the Workbench Migration Wizard"
"My thoughts exactly" muttered Jason H. "I was in a system that avoids check constraints and the developers never seemed to agree to a T/F or Y/N or 1/0 for indicator columns. All data in a column will use the same pattern but different columns in the same table will use different patterns so I'm not sure why I was surprised when I came across the attached. Sort the data descending and you have the shorthand for what I uttered." How are these all unique?
An anonymous cable-puller wrote "Reading a long specification manual. The words "shall" and "shall not" have specific meaning, and throughout the document are in bold italic. Looks like someone got a bit shall-ow with their search-and-replace skills."
Mar 26