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Quseful #7: Kill those infinite loops! |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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8/29/2007 12:42 PM
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I don't know about you, but I sometimes write code that (inadvertently, not on purpose) contains an infinite loop. So I run my program and Toad goes off into never-never land, with Oracle chewing up CPU cycles so intently that it is hard to connect as SYS and kill the session.
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Quseful #6: Generate collections of random values |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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8/17/2007 9:27 AM
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You will find in this Quseful a package that will generate/return collections of random values of strings, numbers and dates. It also contains a "self-test" random_verifier procedure that you can run to verify "at a glance" that the values being generated seem
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Quseful #5: Does that string contain a valid number? |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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8/6/2007 2:01 PM
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I offer in this Quseful (Quick and Useful) a package that you can use to determine if a string contains a valid integer, number, binary_float or binary_double (note: if you are not running Oracle 10g, you will need to comment out the binary_* versions in this package). It is based on code I wrote about back in 1997 (available
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Feuerstein in Buenos Aires and Magic Tricks |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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5/9/2007 11:24 AM
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It is Wednesday, May 09, 2007 and I am sitting in the Admiral's Club at the Buenos Aires airport. I just finished two days in this lovely city. My first day was spent enjoying the chilly, but very sunny afternoon, walking for four hours around the city. It is a busy, busy place with many buses throwing way too much gritty exhaust into the air (hey, ...
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Greetings from Las Vegas! |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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4/19/2007 9:16 AM
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I am visiting this, well, very artificial paradise dropped into the middle of a desert, so as to participate in Collaborate 07. It's been an interesting and fun several days. I have a room on the 26th floor of the Mandalay
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