Back Home exploring SQL Genetics
Posted: Sunday, March 13, 2005 9:15 AM
by
Barry Gervin
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL
Over the past month I've been doing some Whidbey/Yukon training. First in Ottawa, then in Toronto (home) and most recently last week in Calgary - a city I haven't visited in 10 years, and has grown up a lot since then. I really enjoyed Calgary.
I'm spending the day getting re-acquainted with my wife and our daughters. My 6 year old used a word this morning I hadn't heard her use before. She was showing me a fancy painting she did at school and while comparing her technique to her peers, said that she “used the minimum amount of colors that the teacher suggested”. You know where I'm going with this don't you?
I asked her what “minimum” meant and she said “the least amount of work”. Ok, she's my daughter, no DNA testing required. But to further test her understanding I asked her what the minimum of 1, 4 and 7 was and she correctly chose 1. She's no math genius, so I was happy she got it right. She even knew that the maximum was 7. I figured I blow her mind (and her mother's who was listening) by asking her what the sum was. I nearly fell off my chair when she said 12.
So I'm happy to report that SQL skills are indeed part of the human genome. Next week we'll try her on correlated subqueries.