Roger MacNicol
@rogermacnicol.bsky.social
Once upon a time, in a land far ago, where Bowie and Jagger still dance in the streets, I knew a lot about databases. Sym42.
It’s odd, but we don’t typically use the term SARGable in Oracle - it’s an IBM term from the late 70’s. ‘Tis useful though.
October 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It’s odd, but we don’t typically use the term SARGable in Oracle - it’s an IBM term from the late 70’s. ‘Tis useful though.
? Ho does Daarth Tangerine affect UK prices?
October 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
? Ho does Daarth Tangerine affect UK prices?
It’s more scary with an ampersand
sudo rm -rf /&
I saw this once when someone tried to delete the Prime Information &SPOOL& dir and mistyped the escape character. It died silently halfway through /bin 😈
sudo rm -rf /&
I saw this once when someone tried to delete the Prime Information &SPOOL& dir and mistyped the escape character. It died silently halfway through /bin 😈
October 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It’s more scary with an ampersand
sudo rm -rf /&
I saw this once when someone tried to delete the Prime Information &SPOOL& dir and mistyped the escape character. It died silently halfway through /bin 😈
sudo rm -rf /&
I saw this once when someone tried to delete the Prime Information &SPOOL& dir and mistyped the escape character. It died silently halfway through /bin 😈
Because marzipan to me smells like cyanide so I’ve never been able to eat it
September 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Because marzipan to me smells like cyanide so I’ve never been able to eat it
Good question - sadly, I can’t find a more recent one for sale
September 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Good question - sadly, I can’t find a more recent one for sale
Not weighted, connecting rods I think
September 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Not weighted, connecting rods I think
University of Puebla - amazing place which was started by a catholic bishop who believed in making information available to the public by donating his 5,000 books in 1646 including 9 incunabulae
September 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
University of Puebla - amazing place which was started by a catholic bishop who believed in making information available to the public by donating his 5,000 books in 1646 including 9 incunabulae
Yeah, we lose 70 mins daylight in Sep far more than any other month
September 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Yeah, we lose 70 mins daylight in Sep far more than any other month
Those kinds of lazy, clickbait headlines annoy me and I refuse to click on them
August 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Those kinds of lazy, clickbait headlines annoy me and I refuse to click on them
I’d love a param to ban inserts that don’t name the columns. As long as all inserts name them, you can reorder columns for performance but that’s lost with unnamed inserts. eg needed when you add a new frequently used column at the end of a wide table
August 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I’d love a param to ban inserts that don’t name the columns. As long as all inserts name them, you can reorder columns for performance but that’s lost with unnamed inserts. eg needed when you add a new frequently used column at the end of a wide table
I identify as an advert for high-end Armagnac 🍸🧐
August 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I identify as an advert for high-end Armagnac 🍸🧐
Or you could install Vivino - point it at the label and it remembers what wine you drank and tells you all about it 😀 @emptythimble.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Or you could install Vivino - point it at the label and it remembers what wine you drank and tells you all about it 😀 @emptythimble.bsky.social
I would love to ban the Null value - have explicit ‘not applicable’ and ‘not known’ etc and permit discreet, comparable zero length values for any data type that are meaningful - known to be blank
June 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I would love to ban the Null value - have explicit ‘not applicable’ and ‘not known’ etc and permit discreet, comparable zero length values for any data type that are meaningful - known to be blank
