Just found an interesting feature in SQL Developer 3
I created a dataset that contained two columns of numbers that I wanted to quickly get into excel. I choose, export in CSV format to clipboard so that I could quickly paste it into an existing spreadsheet.
My dataset contained:
1234, 5678
2345, 6789
3456, 7890
The data that was exported was:
12,345,678
23,456,789
34,567,890
Have to export to an xls file, open it then copy and paste – YAWN !
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
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.
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