Family-friendly contact manager

[Kevin D. Clark]

Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org> writes:

> Well that's what I was really looking for, or something MySQL backed so they
> can make an ODBC call to print out holiday labels.  Strangely enough,
> I think we'd find more use for that than easily looking up e-mail
> addresses.

  The Scene:  December in the Komarinski Household.
  
  Family member #1:  I'm trying to lookup our cousin's Christmas
  wishlist, but I'm having some trouble with the ODBC bindings for
  Ruby.  Specifically, when I execute "SELECT * FROM wishlist
  WHERE gift IS NULL;" I get inconsistant results.
  
  Mark:  Oh, that's a feature of MySQL that you can use to find empty
  rows.  Here's an explanation...
  
  [...]



If your family can't even spell ODBC, then you're probably all the
last remaining vestages of a family that made its fortune selling
buggy-whips.  (-:

--kevin (who can't spell SQL either)
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