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Jim Gray Is Missing

Posted by kdawson on from the red-sky-at-night dept.

K-Man writes "Jim Gray, Turing Award winner and developer of many fundamental database technologies, was reported missing at sea after a short solo sailing trip to the Farallon Islands off San Francisco. Gray is manager of Microsoft's eScience group. The Coast Guard is searching for his vessel over 4,000 square miles of ocean, and there have been no distress calls or signals of any kind. Gray is 63 and a sailor with 10 years' experience."

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  1. The plot thickens! by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jim Gray, Turing Award winner and developer of many fundamental database technologies ...

    Isn't reiserfs organized sort of like a database?

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  2. I know what happened.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    he accidently did a Cartesian Join, and flooded the boat

  3. Re:You don't think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    All Hans on deck...

  4. Hm... by Cyberax · · Score: 5, Funny

    > SELECT loc FROM Locations loc, People p WHERE p.name="Jim Gray" AND p.loc=loc.id

    The query returned 0 results.

    1. Re:Hm... by tedivm · · Score: 4, Funny

      He probably drowned himself when he realized that the majority of the world learned SQL from a tee shirt, and just like the shirt [http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/595d/], you forgot the semi-colon.

    2. Re:Hm... by Cyberax · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, my development environment does not require semicolons after lone SQL statements. Besides, when you embed SQL statements in code using JDBC/DBI/... you also don't need semicolons.

      And I don't like semicolons because one time I accidentally typed "DELETE FROM Table; WHERE ..." on a production database. Luckily, one entry had a constraint which forced transaction to rollback.

  5. Re:You don't think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Poor joke. I will kill you with my bare Hans for that one.

  6. Re:It's OK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For a second there, I thought Slashdot would drop this stupid anti-Microsoft bullshit and at least show some compassion.

    If you come to slashdot for compassion, then I DO feel sorry for you.

  7. Uh-oh. by Jello+B. · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope this turns out to be better than Mario is Missing.

  8. Re:You don't think by poopdeville · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd rather use a Hans held knife.

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  9. Re:It's sad really. by Jello+B. · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's even sadder is that Ballmer & Gates weren't with him....But w
    Wait, why isn't that thought finished? Did somebody mention Candlejack? Now there are two people mi
  10. Negative comments by Sabathius · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard he made an anti-microsoft comment and a chair hit the side of his boat.

  11. I had the pleasure... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    of meeting Jim a number of years ago. He struck me as a very thoughtful, very conscientious, and very nice man. My thoughts are with him and his family.

    The rest of you modding and getting modded funny can die in a fire.

  12. Re:You don't think by kv9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hans shot first? /ducks

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  13. Please show some respect! by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do not make any sick jokes until AFTER a trragedy is confirmed.

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