Re: check if databse exists before connection is made!

you can't determine whether you still have ice-cream without opening the freezer.

I beg to differ. What if you happen to have a freezer with a transparent door? I could very well see if there is ice cream without opening it. ;)

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Re: check if databse exists before connection is made! by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 09, 2004 at 08:33 UTC
Only if you defrost the freezer daily. Otherwise, the inside will be frosted up, and you can't see through it. Since you post here, you are either a nerd or a geek, or both, and nerds and geeks don't defrost their freezers daily. Besides, you never fixed the broken light in the freezer, and even after you fixed it, you don't know whether there's ice-cream hiding behind the frozen spinach. Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: check if databse exists before connection is made! by steves (Curate) on Feb 09, 2004 at 08:38 UTC
But a true geek might give the ice cream its own NIC so he/she can ping it. Or even SNMP-enable it so he can trap "out of ice cream" conditions.	[reply]