Monthly Archives: June 2009

Walk it off!

Caught an elbow reaching in trying to poke a rebound away:

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Raised bed garden- first fruit!

Gabe did the honors of plucking our first garden vegetable today. We chopped up the banana pepper, it was full of fresh-from-the-garden goodness:

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Numeric validation with Oracle regexp_like

PROBLEM: Identify records where there is non-numeric values for a particular column. SOLUTION: select SOME_COL from SOME_TBL where regexp_like (SOME_COL,’^[^[:digit:]]’) ; Obviously this implies that maybe the field should be a NUMBER datatype to start with, but sometimes what we … Continue reading

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Garden progress

Our little raised bed garden experiment is moving along nicely. The tomato plants have grown up enough to warrant some bamboo trellis support: The cell phone picture doesn’t show a lot of detail, but the tomatoes are down the middle, … Continue reading

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