I had a rather productive afternoon on my computer. If anyone needs help with these items, please contact me and I’ll help you. Long story short, here is what I accomplished: I can’t stand the Windows 10 upgrade icon...
Read MoreA neighbor brought to me a common problem the other day. Another neighbor of ours was working on a document for school, is convinced she saved it numerous times – yet now she cannot find it. There could be a few reasons...
Read MoreAs an I.T. professional, I get some, um, shall I say random questions from time to time. This one came this morning on my IM. (Instant Messenger) Coworker: STUPID QUESTION TIME- is there a way top make my keyboard silent? Me:...
Read MoreI don’t know a lot about Steve Jobs. I watched Pirates of Silicon Valley and have bought a few iPods. I had never met the man: so how do I propose to know his last wish?
Read MoreIf you are an Oracle programmer, then you’ve probably encountered the ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified exception when attempting to truncate a table. When this happens during the day, you can usually just wait a few minutes (or go and commit your other open sessions…), but what about when you are truncating tables as part of a script which runs overnight? Are you tired of being woken up so you can simply rerun the script?
Well check out this script, then! It is a very simple PL/SQL procedure which accepts 1 or 2 arguments.
Read MoreUpdated November 8, 2013 – I have verified this on Windows 7 Enterprise Edition. Have you ever wanted to see your Oracle output or log files open in your custom text editor instead of an IE window? I use Notepad++ (FREE)...
Read MoreIf this article doesn’t help you, consider dropping me a note with your concern. I have thousands of lines of code for hundreds of Oracle problems I’ve faced and would publish ones that people told me would be...
Read MoreOnce in a while I want to write an article on technology. Here is the first one.
Have you ever had a large dataset (or small) that you imported into Excel somehow and you just want to remove all the rows that duplicate on a certain column? Here’s a couple quick macros you can use to solve your problem. Just copy and paste this code into a module in Excel VBA and run them like any other macro.
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