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From the syllabus:

" Trigger Warning: The material presented in this lecture uses explicit language and discusses certain situations in database management systems that may be triggering to some students."

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> material presented in this [...] may be triggering to some students."

Can't be serious as I didn't see MUMPS in the list.

(Who gets that joke wins a free trip to Wisconsin)

You work for Epic?

Nah, but heard stories from someone working there. I can see how that could become a trigger warning easily.

(Apparently I needed a "dry db nerd humor" trigger warning, as I go downvoted since nobody got the database joke).

Living just North of Massachusetts, I got the joke.

There was a similar issue some years ago, where a popular author on Oracle PL/SQL began polluting his technical books with politically-charged text in the examples. In this case, though, the "trigger" was not something so innocuous as terminology such as master-slave. The author's justification here: http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly//news/feuerstein_10...

I'd hesitate to describe master-slave as innocuous to begin with.

Understood. I meant to make a distinction between commonly accepted terminology, and free-form text where the author chooses to make controversial statements. And yes I'm aware of the existing controversy over use of master-slave in technology documentation.

So sad that they are forced to put such "warnings" on this kind of courses.

I guess people signing up for a database course should expect triggers to feature at some point

If they have to be warned about triggers what are they going to do when they see a multi-page stored procedure :P

Where? [1]

[1]:http://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2016/syllabus.html

At the very bottom of the course schedule here [1]

[1]:http://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2016/schedule.html

Probably referring to the Master-Slave terminology

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