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Platinum catalyst for thefts - Sand Mountain Reporter

Platinum catalyst for thefts Sand Mountain Reporter, AL - 22 hours ago ... attempting to sell a catalytic converter to them to provide a picture ID and a vehicle tag number.

FAQ 4.63 How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq4.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at [link] .

IDUG NA (Dallas) 2008 - Wednesday, Day 4

Not really that much to say about today. I attending Terry Purcell's presentation on the DB2 optimizer called "Stabilizing Access Paths Across Rebinds" . I like listening to Terry present, he's an exceptional speaker. This session was no different. If you have ever wondered why the optimizer did NOT do what you expected, you should take a look at Terry's pitch. There is a lot of good

printf + escape code

Could someone help to explain why the second column is not formatted with the correct width when escape codes are used? $ perl -e 'printf ":%-20s:%-20s:\n", "string1", "\e[32mstring2\e[m"'

FAQ 6.2 I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq6.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at [link] .

regexp to replace some number of characters?

Greetings. I have some input data that looks something like this: A NON-INDENTED LINE THIS LINE INDENTED THREE SPACES The number of spaces that some lines are indented will vary. I want to replace each leading space with a HTML-ish ' ' so that the second line becomes '   THIS LINE...'

SQL Plus error - String beginning '...' too long. Maximum size is 79 characters

Hi guys, I had trouble finding a correct oracle group so please let me know if this is not where I should post my problem? But hopefully you might be able to help me anyway... We're using SQLPLUS at work, mine is: (sqlplusw.exe) version: SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu May 22 10:21:41 2008

When to use Triggers (and when not to!)

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology By request, this entry will discuss some issues surrounding DML triggers. Triggers are a nifty feature. When you need them, they are very useful. They can also make maintenance and debugging an absolute

Graphical Oracle administration

Is there a free tool to administer Oracle and Oracle databases? I would like to use a tool similar to SQL Server Management Studio that let me create/drop databases and database objects, administer users, view tables' contents and so on. Oracle SQL Developer is great but has no create/drop database functions and no database server users management tools (global users

IDUG North America - Day 3

Half way through the conference and it was another full day here in Dallas. The morning started off with a keynote by Craig Fowler, author of My Job Went to India (and all I got was this lousy book) . He had some very interesting insights. The first was that you should treat your career like a business and you are the product of that business. When you look at it that way, you can ask yourself,

Legitimate goal - mad.co.uk

Legitimate goal mad.co.uk, UK - 8 minutes ago

Installing CC&B Version 2.1 for Windows 2003

Hey guys/gals, We've downloaded the software for the version from the eDelivery site, and have gotten the database and the framework installed

FAQ 5.39 Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq5.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at [link] .

Group bys and sub-queries

Hi I have the following two table structures: create table parent ( parent_id number not null, class varchar2(1) ); create table child ( child_id number not null, parent_id number not null, date_done ); I want to retrieve the number of child records for each of class A and class B of the parent records, grouped by date_done. E.G. -

v$log_history

Hy NG, how long are the entries stored in the view v$log_history ? I looked into 2 diffrent databases and saw diffrent entries; 1= 2weeks *** 2=3month ??? Wher can i customize the time how long the entries are stored? So long Uwe

2 Petabyte PostgreSQL

A rather unexpected company helped us get pgCon started off with a bang: Yahoo! Last night, they threw a night-before party for the conference, gave away a Wii, and announced a 2-petabyte database built with a modified version of PostgreSQL.

Best Way to accomplish a Task

Best Way to accomplish a Task Greets SCOPE: Convert linux perl scripts to run on a Windows box What is the best way to accomplish this task ? Is there a converter to download? There are over 100 scripts that I need to migrate to work properly on windows. Any direction would be greatly appreciated. -Thanks