part of my job requires that i, from time to time, scour through databases of athletes of all sorts.  today the focus was on college basketball, where i ran into a quirk that made me do a double take.  we’ve recently gotten updates to our college basketball rosters for the 2009-10 season, and while the original set of players came in by last name, the new players we get come in by team name.  which is all a long way of setting up this unlikely pairing of names that i found towards the end of the 19618 row table:

| 3024400 | Williams | Travis | 80 | F | 33 | 0 |
| 3032344 | Rehnquist | Peter | 107 | G | 25 | 0 |

williams and rehnquist. back to back, for some reason, in a gigantic table of basketball players.

basically i’m getting coded messages from my database. now i just need to see what exactly the database wants me to do.