Posted by markwh04 on 01/12/06 14:01

S.Williams wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I was asked to learn SQL for my employer.

You're on the Web, I presume. So, it's helpful to learn that the very
instant an absence of information is mentioned in any context, a reflex
will suddenly take over your body compelling you -- within a mere
fraction of a second -- to hit a search engine and do a query and
(within mere minutes) assimilate like a Borg what was formerly unknown.

This is but a small fraction of what comes up after 0.21 seconds at
once such query

SQL-related entries on the Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Server

and that's just the Wikipedia.

> The book I'm starting in

Book? They still exist? It takes longer to physically open a book
(never mind reading it) than it does to go through all the above.

Oh yeah ... and:

A PHP query at Yahoo:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=PHP&fr=FP-tab-web-t-296&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8

The PHP site.
http://www.php.net

I didn't even know what PHP was 10 seconds ago.

The Occupational Job Outlook that just came out a short while ago had
some pretty interesting things to say about librarians. Even though it
indicated it was to be a high growth field for the years immediately to
come (one of the tops, supposedly); they also put dark clouds on the
horizon (which are coming along much faster than they indicated)
pointing out that the whole industry is set to be obsolete -- merely by
the fact, as illustrated above, that the very phrase "I don't know" is
set to become obsolete now that the entirety of the world's knowledge,
or large portion thereof, is a mere fraction of a second away from the
mere thought of getting it.

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