"I tell you the truth!..."

"...whatsoever..."

"blah blah blah referential integrity blah blah blah"

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ok?

what

Yeah, Indian DBAs--you combine cultural ego-centrism with the anal DBA attitude and you get PAIN in the ass.

Assuming he was Indian, of course.

I'm amazed that you can have a position based on that OP.

Who, the OP, or sharky?

While Referential Integrity may sound like something akin to flexible morality, I assure the OP it's nothing of the sort.

Sharky. There's not nearly enough in that OP to formulate any sort of opinion. If anything it seems like a neuron or two randomly fired in the poster's head and compelled him to post fragmented gibberish. :)

Yeah. I read this the other day:


http://sysop.wordpress.com/2006/01/22/advice-to-young-programmers/
(see #4)

and figured I needed to lash out at Indians.

A comment about that link on Reddit suggests it is a forgery:

http://myitblog.com/Thinker/9/

Not that all Indians plagiarize or anything.

Yeah, I'm loopy today.

"Today"?

Cut Sharky some slack, she came out and admitted it for today. No need to be snarky.

Isn't "Sisa" an Indian name?

Either way, that's pretty bad advice. It shouldnt have been "study,study,study", instead it should have been "think, think, think".
The word "study" itself is treated differently in India. Most of the people around me end up learning programming by rote. Dont gawk. They have this tendency to absorb textbook matter like a sponge and reproduce the same in the exams (the standard of exams is a different issue altogether). And the end result is that barely 10-15% of graduates are "fit enough" to join the industry. The rest have to be re-trained to think.