Monthly Archives: April 2011

Stack Exchange update

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Gaius

I’ve just gained the trusted user privilege on DBA.SE, having been active on the site since it’s launch. It’s still very small compared to the mighty Stack Overflow, the original of these sites, but I hope in time it will … Continue reading →

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And while I’m on the subject…

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Gaius

Following on from Sunday’s post, which was really about using overly generic solutions to actually quite specific problems (e.g. a full-featured message bus when all anyone really cares about is data change notification), there are some other things that are … Continue reading →

Posted in f#, Haskell, Ocaml | 1 Comment

Out with the old, in with the… Old?

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Gaius

One of the most interesting things about the new features list in Oracle 11g is the tacit admission that some of the features in 10g just weren’t very well thought out, so rather than merely upgrading them, or trying to … Continue reading →

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New MTL

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Gaius

Just rebuilt my Debian VM with latest-everything, having to tweak some code from MTL 1 to MTL 2. Seems straightforward enough, but the proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating…

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Calling Unix libraries from OCaml

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Gaius

(This is something I did in December but have only just gotten round to posting about) The OCaml Unix module provides many of the system calls needed for day-to-day work, but occasionally there is one that is only available in … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, Ocaml, Shareplex | 2 Comments

Porting stored procedures

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Gaius

(Based on a Stack Exchange post) In SQL Server, a common pattern is to wrap some processing in a stored procedure that returns a standard result set, using a local temporary table, which is to say a table defined within … Continue reading →

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