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One of those weaks
Been having a lot of trouble sleeping properly. Suspect I'm a bit stressed, IBS flared up.Got my generated J2EE code to compile with no problem, now I need to devise some kind of test harness and then move on to (finally) generating the JSPs for the
Short Story, Null is not null, inheritance and other stuff
My new short story is The End of All Meeting. It's a bit preachy but it helped me sort some thngs out. Have a read if you want.Null is not NullIf you select length('') from dual in Oracle what you get in return is a null. I was trying to prevent stri
Keys sorted
Got me keys sorted. In the end I split the monsta query into two passes. Been having a hassle where some of the tables don't have primary keys. I was trying to use primary keys as a first cut for the relationships in my deepcopy tables. Not a problem
ooh err missus, got me keys backwards
Hmmm ... deepcopy utility was going back to parent's primary key so we were getting duplicates on compound keys. Needed to redesign so that you know what your primary key is and the parent values are passed down. Sigh. It all seemed finished. Took me
More about types in PL/SQL, Paddling etc.
Was trying to do something like:type long_string is varchar2(32767) ;The compiler didn't like it at all. In fact you have to declare this :subtype long_string is varchar2(32767) ;It looks like the language designer was being a little pedantic to me b
Tired, deep copy, PL/SQL tables whoop it up, baby
Been struggling the last few days with tiredness. Seem to keep waking up at 5 am, not a lot of fun to be honest. I've been wondering if it's my IBS flaring up again. Suspect the tiredness comes from the weekend originally, where I paddled for 2 days
The story so far
BirthdaysI was 44 yesterday. Crap. Not that good a birthday either, as these things go. Bought myself a personal CD player with a car kit so I can listen to my CD collection in the car. Really miss the multichanger in the old car. Ho fkn hum. Spent t
1st october
So what’s been happening for these last few weeks?First off, I found a contract job in Nottingham working for a utility company, this is 2 hours from where I live. So I’m back on the road, staying in hotels and not getting enough exercise.It’s