MetaFilter posts tagged with sql

Sequoia Voting Systems

idiopath — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:46:26 -0800

Sequoia Voting Systems seem to have inadvertently released SQL code from their voting machines. And people are saying that the code is incriminating. People who have analyzed the code claim that it contained code designed to control or influence the outcome of an election. The code and the technical details are here for those inclined to look at it. Torrent for the code in question. The story is being discussed on the usual suspects for political stories related to programming.

Finally, there's a game that just is a database!

Smart Dalek — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:44:05 -0800

mySQLgame. Naturally, it's an alpha build. [via]

Jim Gray is missing

Kibbutz — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:51:18 -0800

"Urgent . . . Jim Gray" Jim Gray is a well-respected researcher at Microsoft, and has been called "THE SQL Guru and Architecht." Last Sunday night he went out on his boat, and has yet to return. Read the touching story about how Silicon Valley's "best and brightest" are using all their technological savvy to find their colleague and friend. Godspeed. (previous post on Jim Gray here)

Web programming references

Roger Dodger — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:59:30 -0800

Web programmers take note, gotAPI is an excellent collection of searchable programming references wrapped up into a customizable interface.

Billions and billions of rows

Rothko — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:38:53 -0800

Learn SQL by playing inside a galaxy of stars.

Microsoft = Megatarget.

insomnia_lj — Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:42:55 -0800

Microsoft = Megatarget. A new worm is rapidly spreading across the Internet, functioning like a massive DDOS attack and crippling ISPs in South Korea. It's host? Microsoft SQL server. (Get yor fix on, then reboot!) What impact will it have over here, I wonder...

baylink — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:46:26 -0800

No, PostgreSQL does not suck. Some of the people who wander into my weblog get there from a page at OpenACS, the site for the Postgres port of Phil Greenspuns' ArsDigita Community System wherein takes place a "MySQL's Better!" "No, it's not!" discussion. Here's a bit more data.

chrish — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 05:30:19 -0800

MySQL and PostgreSQL Compared. Now that license is not an issue, PHP Builder does a back-to-back comparison of the two wonderful SQL databases(via: slashdot). Guess which one wins?