theodosia: (dead like me)
theodosia ([personal profile] theodosia) wrote2007-07-31 10:42 pm
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I LOVE you, Jack Carter

Title of this post is in honor of Eureka.

Ugh! So tired, but at least it was in a good cause: helping [livejournal.com profile] veejane move into her new place. Part of which meant sitting in a comfortable chair amongst the piled possessions waiting for the cable guy (or someone like him) to come while she, poor thing, went back to the old apartment with a list of essential left-behind items.

I'm reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, which I'm finding fairly gripping. So it wasn't too harsh to wait, but it was even better when Jane got back with the air conditioner.

So aside from the actual lugging and sweating, there was enough rest that I shouldn't be 100% exhausted, just 95% or so.

In other news, I heard back from one job with a "short simple test" of SQL that has questions like "Question 4 - What are $$, $*, $# and $? ?" which looks like it's not something that I've worked with before. :-( I'm barely up to MySQL using $ in variable names -- we sure didn't use those symbols in the Ingres that I worked with for so long, nor in the Oracle or Sybase queries I was running earlier this year. SIGH.

[identity profile] readsalot.livejournal.com 2007-08-02 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Um. I know what % is used for, but $? Yikes.

[identity profile] readsalot.livejournal.com 2007-08-02 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
A coworker suggests that $$ and so on are specific to the syntax of whatever database they're used to using, and that the tester mistakenly thinks that they're part of some universal syntax.