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... :) Kellyn Pedersen Multi-Platform DBA I-Behavior Inc. http://www.linkedin.com/in/kellynpedersen www.dbakevlar.blogspot.com "Go away before I replace you with a very small and efficient shell script..." --- 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… ----------------------- Ric Van Dyke Hotsos Enterprises ----------------------- Hotsos Symposium March 7 – 11, 2010 Be there. 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: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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; }; - -- My PGP public key: http://yurichev.com/dennis.yurichev.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktdU1kACgkQ1YPmFmJG++OphwCgyMwyRlBa+/3SKXv7HXzCsOjG pQYAoNLryKAC872uwJKK2k8vapk/24zs =LRVc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- Thomas Roach 813-404-6066 troach@xxxxxxxxx