Posted by Jim at February 18th, 2004

I have a test tomorrow in my database class.

In the prof’s infinite wisdom, I also have to hand in an assignment. The good news is that the assignment helps understand material that will be covered on the test. The bad news is that while I did start the assignment on Monday, there are still a few sql problems to finish for tonight.

Thus, I am working on sql that allows me to find such useful things as which sailors have ever served on a blue ship, which a red, and which have served on both. Or neither.

I am currently finishing the last problem. It involves finding the longest ship the sailors in the database have ever served on.

Hmmn.

This could be evidence of a not unusual fixation among some men or it could be an attempt to find out if we will know to use the MAX() aggregate function.

One of the two.