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Tonight for a project I was working on I realized I could simplify my PL/pgSQL code a lot if I had functions which would take a list of dates and give me the first or the last date chronologically. Then I found out, thanks to VARIADIC and a new built-in, how easy that is in PostgreSQL 8.4.2:

From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology March 1-7 is National Procrastination Week (NPW). Happy NPW! I meant to write about it last week. But I was celebrating it instead. ;-) LewisC

Don't get lost in the mix or mired in the details

Yup, batch. The stuff that has been around on the mainframe a lot longer than I have. It's the process many of us love to hate and it seems to fit the old adage "can't live with it, can't live without it". So, here's my question.

Well, it's Friday and continuing on with my latest tradition, it's once again time to publish Kathy's guest blog post covering the latest and greatest Optim news... Enjoy!!!!

I have been learning, in "crash course" mode", about creating CLR UDF's this last week. I have known for some time now that SQL can't do everything . . . even if it can do an awful lot of things. ;-) However, working with CLR languages (in my case, C#) and building UDF's or SP's, while on my list, was not at the top of my list of things to do . . . however, that changed

Yup, you read that correctly. It's never to early to start planning for your upgrade to the bigger and better DB2 for z/OS. There is another new release of DB2 on the horizon, DB2 10 for z/OS. With every new DB2 comes you migration/fallback PTFs; that stuff you apply to your existing system so everyone plays well together.

The silence is deafening

I would have named it the DB Horcrux. Think about it.

Every time I visit the Qantas Club lounge in an Australian airport and switch on the wireless internet I get an IBM URL error.