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You've only got to read this thread to see what's wrong with this country - nobody f*cking makes anything or does anything productive any more.

 

Me? I took early retirement ;)

 

There's still me :)

 

I have a small company designing and manufacturing electronic information systems mainly using bespoke LED concoctions.

 

It's an interesting and rewarding way of life to take a product right through the process of examining the requirement, designing an approach and eventually helping the customer to enjoy the answer to their problems.

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There's still me :)

 

I have a small company designing and manufacturing electronic information systems mainly using bespoke LED concoctions.

 

It's an interesting and rewarding way of life to take a product right through the process of examining the requirement, designing an approach and eventually helping the customer to enjoy the answer to their problems.

 

You make Xmas decorations? ;)

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Now you believe everything you read in the press?

 

The bits I can verify, such as the word Saga appearing at the end of other game titles :)

 

Panzer Dragoon, anyone? :)

 

What really made me laugh about that was the sheer balls of it. A firm which made its name off doing clone match-3 games, which everyone else had done up until that point, trying to claim that it was the originator of something, or should have least have exclusive rights to something that already wasn't exclusive.

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The bits I can verify, such as the word Saga appearing at the end of other game titles :)

 

Panzer Dragoon, anyone? :)

 

What really made me laugh about that was the sheer balls of it. A firm which made its name off doing clone match-3 games, which everyone else had done up until that point, trying to claim that it was the originator of something, or should have least have exclusive rights to something that already wasn't exclusive.

 

See, that really isn't what happened. But I'm limited in what I can say, and you have little reason to simply take my word for it.

 

With the greatest of respect, I'm not overly keen on saying anything that may affect my employment status here.

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See, that really isn't what happened. But I'm limited in what I can say, and you have little reason to simply take my word for it.

 

With the greatest of respect, I'm not overly keen on saying anything that may affect my employment status here.

 

And quite right you are, but an interesting personal case study in what gets reported/regurgitated vs fact, eh?

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And quite right you are, but an interesting personal case study in what gets reported/regurgitated vs fact, eh?

 

Oh definitely. It is frustrating being on the inside and privy to all the information as opposed to the outside and reading stories about colleagues and friends having their names and characters dragged through the mud.

 

It's worth mentioning that we weren't exactly popular in certain gaming circles prior to this, so many leapt at any opportunity to take a shot without bothering to attempt to get a full account. I understand that, and I understand the urge to take a pop at the 'big guys' as it were, but there was some sloppy reporting on that. Not least those that published names and emails of people, unfortunately they happened to be girls. The last few months have shown us what happens to unpopular girls in the games industry. Hence, my frustration with that whole...saga ;)

 

As with most things, there's two sides.

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Oracle and SQL Server Database Administrator and one time programmer (unfortunately current job doesn't let me programme much but I will be back, oh yes I will be back)

 

I'm using both at the minute. ERP integration project with Oracle on the big box end and SQL Server handling the intermediaries.

 

First time I've been on Oracle since 1997/98. What a fúcking money pit that is, and it won't even let you do uncommitted reads.

 

SQL Server allows dirty reads, done dirt cheap.

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I'm using both at the minute. ERP integration project with Oracle on the big box end and SQL Server handling the intermediaries.

 

First time I've been on Oracle since 1997/98. What a fúcking money pit that is, and it won't even let you do uncommitted reads.

 

SQL Server allows dirty reads, done dirt cheap.

 

Oracle does it properly :-

 

Readers don't block writers and writers don't block readers (unless you explicitly issues a table lock hint) so the concept doesn't exist in Oracle

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Oracle does it properly :-

 

Readers don't block writers and writers don't block readers (unless you explicitly issues a table lock hint) so the concept doesn't exist in Oracle

 

Nice, bTripz, nice.

 

Seeing as you're the expert and all, can you tell me how the fúck I get an NCHAR value from Oracle to SQL server (via linked servers) without having to wrap the bastard in TO_CHAR?

 

I know it's possible. I can pull from system views like ALL_TAB_COLUMNS without having to wrap NCHAR values. Every time we try it on one of our own tables, the data length is misreported and no-one seems to know what the jip is.

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Nice, bTripz, nice.

 

Seeing as you're the expert and all, can you tell me how the fúck I get an NCHAR value from Oracle to SQL server (via linked servers) without having to wrap the bastard in TO_CHAR?

 

I know it's possible. I can pull from system views like ALL_TAB_COLUMNS without having to wrap NCHAR values. Every time we try it on one of our own tables, the data length is misreported and no-one seems to know what the jip is.

 

Probably need to tweak your collation settings, I should imagine that there is a special character in one of the values that you are retrieving on the Oracle side which is causing the issue (There shouldn't be any special characters in the data dictionary views).

 

Are you selecting the data using an OPENQUERY or 4 part notation. If the latter I would switch to the former to see if that works.

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Porn Star .... until recently.

 

Latest Flick involved a scene where I had to "service" 12 ladeez one after the other.

Everything was going perfectly until lady #12 enters the fray ..... and Mr Floppy pays a visit :(

The Director comes screaming in .. "WTF is happening ... the whole film is now ruined ... you are sacked ... what's wrong with you ... blah blah blah"

 

All I could say was "Sorry boss, there wasn't any problems in rehearsals 2 hours ago" :blush:

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