Chapter 674: Getting the wool of the 21st century (First two chapters)

Seeing Gao Zhendong's extremely confident look, others didn't know, but at least Chief Engineer Chi from the Operation Institute believed it.

"That's fine. Just finish the first version of the source code and let us handle the debugging."

Chief Engineer Chi also knows that, normally, the process of writing source code includes debugging. Once the source code is written, debugging is largely completed.

But it is hard to say with Gao Zhendong. He said that he wrote the source code and others debugged it, so it is possible that he compiled the source code before completing the debugging.

But this incident was a little too terrifying for other comrades.

Putting aside other things, just by listening to the list of functions that Gao Zhendong just mentioned, you can tell that this thing sounds good, but it is really difficult to use.

Now is different from the future, when Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V can solve more than half of the problems, and some classic problems even have complete answers and analyses.

It may take half a month to develop an ordinary small software, let alone such a large system.

If Gao Zhendong demonstrated his strong theoretical knowledge, system design experience, and understanding of computer hardware and software when planning and introducing the database, then Gao Zhendong's words now made them realize that he also had extremely strong practical and software programming capabilities.

If a person possesses any one of these two abilities, he or she will definitely be a leader in the industry, and those who possess both are even rarer.

But to their surprise, the chief engineer of the computing center, who was most familiar with the software and most likely to raise objections besides Gao Zhendong, said something equally outrageous as Gao Zhendong's.

No, you believe whatever he says, right?
Chief Engineer Chi: Yes, I really believe it.

After hearing his words, Gao Zhendong knew that he didn't need to worry about this matter anymore, and their computing office would naturally be able to handle it smoothly in the future.

Seeing Gao Zhendong nod in approval, Chief Engineer Chi turned to look at several comrades from the economics and trade colleges.

"Comrades, in terms of the compilation of computers and system software, our computing department has experience in debugging and improving large-scale system software such as operating systems with Professor Gao. We should have certain advantages in the compilation of large-scale software such as database systems. So, our computing department will take the lead in debugging the database source code."

Although Chief Engineer Chi is very humble in front of Gao Zhendong, when he turns around and faces other comrades, he is not polite at all when talking about the professional field of computers and software.

The words may be said politely, but the meaning is completely different.

There is only one core, and this is a good thing that our computing department has done.

Comrades from the Statistics Department and the Ministry of Foreign Trade had no objection to his words. After all, it might be okay for comrades from their own economic and trade schools to develop some statistical and economic application software, but they would only feel at ease when this kind of systematic general basic software, which sounded like a major project, came from the country's top technical organization, the Institute of Computing Technology.

This is not the time to protect one's own people. In front of the Institute of Computing, the comrades from the economics and trade schools can cooperate well, but the leaders cannot do it.

As for why such a big project only takes fifteen days for Professor Gao, that is Professor Gao's ability.

At least for the comrades in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, they believed whatever Gao Zhendong said in this regard.

The Statistics Department and Gao Zhendong are actually not familiar with each other, but it doesn’t matter, there are comrades from the Ministry of Foreign Trade to support them. They all believe it, so why shouldn’t we?
After listening to Chief Engineer Chi's words, the comrades from the Statistics Department smiled and said, "Well, we are relieved to have a professional organization like yours take action. Our department and the comrades from the colleges and universities who have undertaken related work will definitely cooperate well."

It's okay for you to take the lead in this matter, but don't forget your comrades in our school.

The task for the comrades in the Ministry of Foreign Trade is even simpler. In this matter, they are just introducers. They just need to organize the strongest relevant forces together, and then they can just play by and enjoy the results.

Facts have proved that they made the right move. As soon as Comrade Gao Zhendong spoke, the matter was made clear in no time and the problem was solved.

Once successful, this issue will no longer be a problem in the future, at least for a long time.

What if it doesn't work? Even if it doesn't work, Gao Zhendong's plan is the best plan. If it doesn't work, there are other options, such as the method of formulating data standards that he and Chi, the chief engineer of the computing institute, have mentioned.

Several comrades from the economics and trade schools also had no objections. They knew their own business. It sounded like this was not a simple thing. Although Professor Gao said it was easy and happy, saying that he could get the source code done in half a month, others might not have his ability.

Several of our colleges and universities said that they had experience in application software in the past, but in fact they only each had some simple statistical application software development work. When it comes to experience in this kind of large-scale system software, they are naturally far behind the Institute of Computing.

I am very satisfied to be able to follow Professor Gao and the professionals in the Institute of Computing, increase my software experience, and share some of the achievements and honors.

Comrades from several colleges and universities have expressed their willingness to make full use of their relevant work experience and cooperate in the debugging of this major database management system.

For those who are engaged in software in economics and trade colleges, this is the best opportunity.

I am not the best software engineer, but that is okay. I am the best software engineer among the economic comrades, and that is enough. Next, the Computing Institute will discuss the specific work arrangements with the Statistics Department, the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and the colleges and universities.

Gao Zhendong didn't take care of this matter, although basically every time he confirmed something, Chief Engineer Chi would ask, "Professor Gao, do you think this arrangement is appropriate?"

Gao Zhendong basically nodded in agreement. He did not get involved in the details and told everyone to decide on their own.

Gao Zhendong returned home directly from the Ministry of Foreign Trade, said hello to Lou Xiaoe who was cooking, and went straight into the south room.

Although it is an extremely huge workload to tailor the open source database source code to suit the current DJS series computers, and to some extent, it is even more difficult than writing a new one, Gao Zhendong saw something else in the system store. With this thing, he can cheat.

I can only say that these small shops around the school sell all kinds of things, especially when some students who have been trying their best to make money in school join in, things become more interesting.

What he saw was a USB flash drive, and the introduction of the USB flash drive was very interesting.

"Database source code. This is a senior who runs a printing shop. He collected and downloaded the source code of all major historical versions of a certain open source database for his juniors. The kind-hearted senior even only charged them 50 yuan."

This situation is rare. By the time Gao Zhendong traveled through time, who the hell didn't know how to download something by themselves?

But the bird is bigger... on the contrary, the forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds.

Some people don't know where to find these things, or are too lazy to look for them, so they just use their money. After all, it's not a small amount of work to get all the major historical versions.

However, this kind of thing is not very common. Generally, it is seniors who run printing shops and the like who will do it after receiving orders. Gao Zhendong can only be found very occasionally.

This is the reason he cheated.

There is no such thing as adaptive transformation when acquiring knowledge from a system. If you can understand it, then learn it. If you cannot, then just watch.

But it’s a different story when it comes to extracting items from the system store. Gao Zhendong can find a bug.

The system describes this thing as "database source code" instead of "U disk". Obviously, in the system's judgment, it recognizes the thing called "source code". This means that what is proposed and adaptively modified is the "database source code"!
As for whether an ordinary USB flash drive can extract EEPROM, Gao Zhendong has tried it, and what comes out is definitely a magnetic tape, not EEPROM. Even a one-time write is not possible. It seems that current technology cannot support the production of ROM.

There is also a possibility that the system defines the USB flash drive as "removable storage" rather than "erasable chip storage."

In short, the USB flash drive cannot extract the EEPROM, so we have to give up.

And with the above bug, it is very comfortable. The system transformation is simple and fast, and you can get it immediately.

There is absolutely no need for Gao Zhendong to go through the trouble of rewriting it himself.

If he hadn't been afraid of scaring the other comrades at the meeting to death, he would even have dared to say, "I'll give it to you tomorrow."

However, if he did that, it would be too horrifying and impossible to explain, so Gao Zhendong had to set a deadline of one and a half months.

When the extraction process started, what appeared in Gao Zhendong's hand was a tape. This time there was not even any paper material.

This damn system is so stingy.

Insert the tape into the tape player and read it on the DJS-61.

Gao Zhendong took a look and found that the source code was very complete and came with an instruction manual for the database management system. Fortunately, when Gao Zhendong saw that there was no paper document, he thought the instruction manual was gone.

The originally powerful open source database has been downgraded to something similar to FoxBase.

FoxBase is an ancient relational database system that was popular under DOS around the 80s.

It is simple, but it has all the basic functions and it is in command line mode.

As it is now, the DJS-61 cannot withstand any complexity.

To be honest, this simplified version has reached its current limit, but in terms of functionality, it is actually quite unfair to the original source code in the USB flash drive.

Thinking of this, Gao Zhendong immediately solidified the qualification to extract this "database source code USB flash drive". Once this thing was solidified, he could continue to reape the benefits until the 21st century!

It would be great to mention it every time a new type of computer is available and update the database management system version to keep up with the latest computer developments!
(End of this chapter)