Last week I gave a colleague a demonstration on why, if you have numbers stored in a character string you should convert them explicitly to numbers:
select ‘Yes’
from dual
where ‘1000’ between ‘000’ and ‘999’;‘YES’
—–
Yes
Month: April 2009
Whilst nowhere near as ambitious as J.D. and Krisâ project here I have decided to do some work in the garden this year. Iâm a few weeks behind writing up my progress so Iâll try and summarise after the break.
photo credit: Tim Morgan
Today at work the development DB went down.
My days of fixing databases are long gone, but the guys that are are not so good at letting everyone know that the database is back up.
I created this windows batch script to let me know.