One of the things I always find interesting is the fact that DBAs almost always use some type of auto-increment method in order to generate unique IDs for records. Sometimes, though, you may have a table in which you don’t want to use the default method of generating the next Read more…
Something I had to do today was figure out how to find the SUM of an array in PostgreSQL. I went through many different ways, but this seemed to be the best: If you know of a shorter or better way to do this for a variable size array please Read more…
Yet another request came to me today for granting SELECT permissions. This time, the request was to give the user the correct privileges to use a view. Basically, you can use the same format that is used for tables as is used for views: After running a query like this Read more…
One of the things that I often end up Googling is a list of the 56 default XLS colors. I finally decided to compile my own list so that I can simply copy and paste the value that I need to use for either the Forecolor or Backcolor in the Read more…
Someone had an issue today where they were using a string as if it were a regular expression. Not totally understanding what the desired end result would be, I had suggested they use something equivalent to Java’s Pattern.quote() function. It turned out that they really just wanted to determine if Read more…
A while back, I wrote a function about Solid Type Checking. What is funny is that I often am writing just a bit of JavaScript in which I need a better way of checking the type of an object or primitive. Unfortunately, since I have been slacking on the next Read more…
There have been many times when I needed a way to define a function (or variable) only if it wasn’t already defined. Since this seems to be such a common situation, I decided to write a function which will only define a variable, in a given namespace if a definition Read more…
One thing that most JavaScript writers do now, which is a good practice, is they create namespaces for their functions and variables. The following is a definition for a function that can be used to easily create namespaces of any depth: I have to admit, this idea is not originally Read more…
Another DBA task that I seem to have to carry out is making sure that a specified user or group has all (CREATE & USAGE) permissions to all of the schemas (except pg_catalog for which they only get USAGE) in the database. For this reason, I end up using the Read more…
One of the things that I often had a difficult time with was finding a way to select the newest records from a table that had one or more columns to group by and then one column to order by. Let’s use the following table as an example: Version Name Read more…