RE: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code

And I thought the developer was just trying to slip in a message to everyone 
about how he really felt about working on the code...  :)


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--- On Tue, 1/26/10, Ric Van Dyke <ric.van.dyke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Ric Van Dyke <ric.van.dyke@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code
To: troach@xxxxxxxxx, dennis@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "ORACLE-L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 7:33 AM








You’d be surprised (or shocked) at some of the things that have creep into the 
code over the years… 
 

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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Thomas Roach
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 7:44 AM
To: dennis@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code
 
I wonder what other lyrics are in the code :)... Could this explain why Oracle 
keeps taking more room to install? : )

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Dennis Yurichev <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Hi.

strings oracle.exe | grep radiohead

Starting at least at 10.2.0.1, function kfasSelfTest_update() (located
in kfas.o) use Radiohead lyrics to test... something related to ASM
probably.

Schematic pseudocode:

#define STRING "I'm a creep, I'm a winner, what the hell am I doing
here.I don't belong here - radiohead"

kfasSelfTest_update()
{
       kfasOpen (...);
       somestruct.somevalue=STRING;
       kfasUpdate (somestruct);
       kfasClose (...);
       newstruct=kfasOpen (...);
       if (strncmp (newstruct.somevalue, STRING, ...)!=0)
       {
               // raise error 99999?
               kserec1(99999, 1, ...);
               kserec2(99999, 1, ..., STRING, 1, ...);
               return 0;
       };
       kfasClose (...);
       return 1;
};

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