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Originally posted by k2p2 View PostActually, Oracle does treat empty strings as nulls. It's tulipe. (Or it least it used to - don't know if things have changed)
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Originally posted by eek View PostStill doesn't justify a code generator that doesn't create defensive code. Oh, and, by the way, empty strings are not database null values and oracle really doesn't like randomly changing parameter types.
Mind you current clientco perms believe 0 is suitable substitute for nulls so the crime is one of general stupidity.
Actually, Oracle does treat empty strings as nulls. It's tulipe. (Or it least it used to - don't know if things have changed)
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Originally posted by eek View PostStill doesn't justify a code generator that doesn't create defensive code. Oh, and, by the way, empty strings are not database null values. Although at current clientco the perms believe 0 is suitable substitute for nulls.
Oh well, it pays the bills.
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostThe architect is Canadian - 'nuff said!
Mind you current clientco perms believe 0 is suitable substitute for nulls so the crime is one of general stupidity.
Last edited by eek; 13 September 2011, 08:56.
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Originally posted by eek View PostHe's currently in Belfast. So he is either at Citibank or working in the Public Sector. Either way we really should give him some slack as there is sod all there to do bar the cinema. Mind you if he has tickets to The Painkiller my wife will kill him as we can't get over there to see it.
That is unless he is working at the only other firm there that I know uses contractors in which case could I ask him to nut their dot net programmers for gross stupidity.
My housemates sister works at the Lyric...
Brian is suicidal. And why not? He’s Swindon’s seventeenth best news photographer, dresses in casualwear, and sings ‘Lady in Red’ as spiritual salvation. Oh, and his wife just left him. He decides there is only one escape from his pain.
Ralph is at ease with the world. And why not?
He’s the best there is, calls himself ‘John Smith’, dresses in Armani, and carries a Heckler and Koch PSG1 sniper rifle. But you’d never know. If forced to speak, he would say that he’s in the business of ‘pain removal’.
Two men. Two lonely hotel rooms. An adjoining door...
On any other day, Brian would have successfully ended things. On any other day, Ralph would
have successfully ended someone.
But not today... Today’s different...
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostYou are a keeper aren't you. You've obviously been dumped.
Look. I'm not going to be nasty. You're obviously having a bad time. Working away from home, on your own, dead end contract, no savings, people around you doing well, colleagues who think you're a twat, CUK posters who know you're a twat. Lack of success must be eating you up.
May I suggest a self help group or maybe try here Jealousy - Overcome Jealousy
You can turn it around Churchy, you can become a nice person. We're rooting for you.
Actually Suity, can you donate all the money you made on your last charity bike ride to the Churchill Self Help group?
That is unless he is working at the only other firm there that I know uses contractors in which case could I ask him to nut their dot net programmers for gross stupidity.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostYou are a keeper aren't you. You've obviously been dumped.
Look. I'm not going to be nasty. You're obviously having a bad time. Working away from home, on your own, dead end contract, no savings, people around you doing well, colleagues who think you're a twat, CUK posters who know you're a twat. Lack of success must be eating you up.
May I suggest a self help group or maybe try here Jealousy - Overcome Jealousy
You can turn it around Churchy, you can become a nice person. We're rooting for you.
Actually Suity, can you donate all the money you made on your last charity bike ride to the Churchill Self Help group?
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostLike nature abhors a vacuum, this forum abhors a lack of bullsh!t. With Threaded departing I think a vote of thanks should be made for MF ably stepping in to the breach.
Jolly well done!
Btw, keep repeating your bollocks and we'll all start to believe it eventually.
Look. I'm not going to be nasty. You're obviously having a bad time. Working away from home, on your own, dead end contract, no savings, people around you doing well, colleagues who think you're a twat, CUK posters who know you're a twat. Lack of success must be eating you up.
May I suggest a self help group or maybe try here Jealousy - Overcome Jealousy
You can turn it around Churchy, you can become a nice person. We're rooting for you.
Actually Suity, can you donate all the money you made on your last charity bike ride to the Churchill Self Help group?
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostLike nature abhors a vacuum, this forum abhors a lack of bullsh!t. With Threaded departing I think a vote of thanks should be made for MF ably stepping in to the breach.
Jolly well done!
Btw, keep repeating your bollocks and we'll all start to believe it eventually.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostIt works out at 25k(Euros). There are some manual feeds into the system and ongoing 'support/dev'. Client kept shaving off automation costs and so ergo support costs went up. Pretty cool product actually, ETL is a bit cludgy.
Jolly well done!
Btw, keep repeating your bollocks and we'll all start to believe it eventually.
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Originally posted by eek View PostSome clients like the confidence that the expert is available at the end of the phone line.
Plus when I do make the annual visit the restaurant is rather good. I'm considering the Fat Duck again this year unless anyone else can recommend somewhere better.
Depends on the rate. I think £15k for a year is reasonable for doing nothing apart from eating.
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Originally posted by eek View PostSome clients like the confidence that the expert is available at the end of the phone line.
Please when I do make the annual visit the restaurant is rather good. I'm considering the Fat Duck again this year unless anyone else can recommend somewhere better.
Depends on the rate. I think £15k for a year is reasonable for doing nothing apart from eating.
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostJust make sure the customer doesn't realise the fact, Shirley?
Plus when I do make the annual visit the restaurant is rather good. I'm considering the Fat Duck again this year unless anyone else can recommend somewhere better.
Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post5 days.Last edited by eek; 13 September 2011, 08:02.
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Originally posted by eek View PostSurely the holy grail is ongoing support agreements. 2 days a month year after year to support a system that never needs supporting because it was so well built and documented in the first place.
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