Competition is evil! At work

Competition is evil!

At work I have been going through, by hand, about 50 queries that are used on a Sybase database and moving them to an Oracle database. Almost every single one requires tweaking and modification. I thought SQL was a standard. What’s the point if every database vendor is adding the equivalent of their own tag? I understand that competitive forces drive them to “enhance” their databases. Heck, I even enjoy some of the enhancements.

Where’s my techno bliss future that was prognosticated in the 50s where all the grunt work is done by machines?

AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHH! Can’t sleep or the database gnomes will eat me…