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6:52 AM

Morning

Andy K

7:25 AM

Evening and morning

Mathematics

7:38 AM

@JackDouglas yes, its jobsite, itjobboard (dice) and indeed now

Morning all

8:19 AM

nuke pls

nuked

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Jack Douglas

9:31 AM

@hot2use thank you, you deserve a lot more upvotes for that ;)

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hot2use

10:52 AM

@JackDouglas You're really welcome. I enjoyed digging into RMAN and incarnations.

And I'm in the process of writing a Q & A for incarnations to sum things up a bit, because I find it lacks some substance on the official site.

@JackDouglas And Thank You.

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hot2use

2:06 PM

@jadarnel27 BTW, Thanks for your answer on the page header question I had.

jadarnel27

2:22 PM

@hot2use You're welcome! I had fun digging in to those DBCC commands.

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5:26 PM

The applications starts up and everything is in spanish - the menus and stuff. Thank God the queries worked in English. — Abhinavkumar Valiyapurail Dec 4 '16 at 15:32

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6:53 PM

Answer accepted and not up voted. I still don't get it

7:07 PM

@ypercubeᵀᴹ I can imagine that someone somewhere had the brilliant idea of translating SQL into other languages. In Excel, the HLOOKUP() function is called VKERES() in the Hungarian edition. Good luck finding useful documentation.

7:18 PM

@dezso Yeah I know. I've seen the Greek version of Excel functions ...

Colin 't Hart

7:38 PM

How does the Greek version of Excel manage with a file created with the Hungarian version?

@Colin'tHart I think all the save into files is using the English names of functions but not sure

Q: Postgres concurrent transactions resulting in race condition unique foreign key clash on insert

@ypercubeᵀᴹ they didn't in early versions

And I believe macro's and vba still suck

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Colin 't Hart

9:00 PM

I have a web service (http api) which allows a user to restfully create a resource. After authentication and validation I pass off the data to a postgres function and allow it to check authorisation and create the records in the database. I found a bug today when two http requests had been made ...

Someone have time to help? Pretty clear what he needs, and worth an upvote, IMHO

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

I just had a recruiter from google try to headhunt me. He wanted to know my 'market activity' - what other positions I was interviewing for and what the rates and hiring managers were. I told him that I was not prepared to disclose that information. Has anybody else had something like that happen?

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

9:33 PM

@TomV very much

@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells sounds awkward

It is. I sent them a polite email telling them to fuck off.

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells was it really from google? Or just somebody trying to understand rates and stuff (social engineering, basically)?

It wasn't immediately obvious whether it was a scam or not but the recruiter's smug air of self importance and entitlement was really the dead giveaway in the end.

His schtick was that it was really a privilege to work for google and that they were so important that they needed a whole lot of extra information to recruit just the right people.

This was the text of the email

Good Afternoon Nigel,

I have left above the relevant information for the position available (full job description released once invited to interview), can you please forward to me the rest of the information regarding current/recent interviews you had attended, and dates with the interviewers name.

I need to make sure I am forwarding the right people on to Google, which I'm sure you can appreciate that a company of Googles prestige requires a lot more information and qualification then other companies.

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