Jim Gray, father of the computer relational database, lost at sea

[NathanE]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16575073.htm

This guy practically wrote the book on relational databases (the things that make the western world go round) and it seems that he may no longer be with us.

His boat has not returned to the harbour on time and no SOS signal has been received.

Quite sad IMO

 

[Helium_Junkie]

Eep, lets hope he apears. It's a big sea, anything may have happened.

 

[iCraig]

Says he went to scatter his Mother's ashes. Maybe he just wants to be alone for a while or something?

Especially as the article says he's in good health, got plenty of equipment and the weather has been good.

Hopefully he'll turn up.

 

[Lead_Head]

I'm sure the local coastguard will use a form of normalisation to find him

 

[pyro]

Dude I hated normalization...

 

[caff]

select coord_x, coord_y from tbl_water where forenames = 'Jim' and surname = 'Gray'

 

[Messiah Khan]

select coord_x, coord_y from tbl_water where forenames = 'Jim' and surname = 'Gray'

Lol.

Im sorry, am I a bad person because I laughed at that?

 

[Confused]

Lol.

Im sorry, am I a bad person because I laughed at that?

I think I've got your one-way ticket to hell here - you're sitting next to me!

 

[5tephen]

Not only can they not find him, the Mercury news article you linked to above cannot be found noe either

 

[ninja economist]

hahaha, Jim Gray.

Doris Day was shot a year ago there.

 

[paddy]

select coord_x, coord_y from tbl_water where forenames = 'Jim' and surname = 'Gray'

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I'm sure he's ok, probably just wants to clear his head, He'll turn up

not going to make any gags about "truncating" his thoughts

 

[JollyGreen]

So that's why my MCDBA badge is flying at half mast!