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Actually no I've never wondered about any of those things. I do, however, wonder about the lack of available and affordable mental health services for spammers and cross-posters.

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Hi - We have a small Oracle server used by three programmers. We would like programmer working on Schema A to be able to backup the schema (at T1) and subsequently (at T2) restore it for the purposes of testing etc. We would also like on customer sites when applying schema changes via DDL to backup the structure of the affected schema before making the

I'm looking for an installation guide for CC&B. I'm interested in deploying to an Oracle or WLS application server. I'm also interested in HA

Hi friends, Perl 5.8.0 seems a bit strange. I encounterred a trouble in my dynamic library which uses this symbol of Perl: ld.so.1: perl: fatal: relocation error: file /opt/mylib/libAPIPerl.so: symbol Perl_sv_2pv: referenced symbol not found Killed Solaris 9/10 Perl was built from source code tar ball.

Hi all, I am having to install the CGI module on a Windows XP machine and it is very frustrating. I read that I should use the PPM to install it, but the CGI module doesn't show up on the list of packages that PPM can install. So I tried installing manually by downloading the module and installing using nmake, dname, make.. none of which

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I have always found that putting "use strict" makes life easier for me. But now, I am trying to use what C programmers call "#include". I have a "main.pl" file, which needs to include another file where values are assigned to a variable. I have tried all combinations of use "includedfile.pl" or require "includedfile.pl"

Microsoft has acquired MDM data quality vendor Zoomix and hopes that its magical self-learning data quality services and code free environment can lay some golden eggs.

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LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology Yesterday, I wrote Recruiters: How to work with techies. A few hours later, I got laid off. Irony? You betcha! Yep, fired. Given the old heave ho. Downsized.

Hi, Given a list containing various UNIX directory paths: @list = qw( /home/bart /home/bart/foo /usr/lib/ /home/bart/foo/xyz /home/bart/foo/xyz/live.cpp ) I want to trim this list to contain: @list = qw( /usr/lib/ /home/bart/foo/xyz/live.cpp ) Is there a better way than this possibly n^2 algorithm below.

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I create and deliver CSV files like this: "12345","John","Q","Public","1 23 Main Street","Anywhere, Alaska","800-555-1212" I create this in my program as a seven element array. Users modify the files, frequently using Excel, and return the files to me. Sometimes I get the original format back. Sometimes, Excel will mangle the file to this:

The young recruit stood before the sargeant, his back straight as a board and his eyes forward, ever-fearing the wrath of the one man who could sink his military career with a wave of his hand. "Private!" shouted the sargeant as he strode directly toward the recruit, pressing his face awkwardly close, and raising his voice several decibels higher, "You are a disgrace to this outfit!" he fumed, "I

To all, I had a vendor tell me yesterday, that it was a good idea to name all of your database related files *.dbf, including control files. This immediately set off a red flag as it violates OFA. Anyone doing this, and if so what is your rationale? The vendor said it made UNIX find commands easier.?!?