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> I get your point Ken but is power really increasing at such a rate?
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> On Friday,
going to get faster and faster over time.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Bec C
Sent: Friday, 11 September 2015 4:59 PM
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Subject: Re: Odd text encoding
I get your point Ken but is power really increasing at such a rate?
On
Ah but the issue is how many rows you can write into a table. That's a bit more
work than a for loop :-)
Regards
Greg
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On 11 Sep 2015, at 5:16 pm, Greg Keogh
mailto:gfke...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Assuming computing power doubles eve
>
> Assuming computing power doubles every 18-24 months, then that 5444 years
>> will become a lot less, relatively quickly.
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>
I didn't mention that counting to 2^63 is eminently parallelizable, so lets
divide up a small fraction of the free internet computing power on the
problem and see how lo
en that 5444 years
> will become a lot less, relatively quickly.
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Greg Keogh
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To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Odd text encoding
but because they were concerned about the possibility of running out of bigint
values. (Clearly it’s a pity more maths isn’t taught at schools).
My PC can do a for int loop up to 2^30 in about 20
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>> it's usually more secure to store as base64
oh god not again. base64 is just a representation of the data in printable
ASCII characters. - think binary (base2), hex (base8) :)
base64 has absolutely nothing to do with security.
On 10 September 2015 at 22:09, David Rhys Jones wrote:
> Database performance, high critical databases it's faster to write text than
> binary, this might have changed with the last version of SQL but it was true
> up until '2008
Binary data is naturally faster to copy and compare than text becau
t-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
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but because they were concerned about the possibility of running out of bigint
values. (Clearly it’s a pity more maths isn’t taught at schools).
My PC can do a for int l
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> but because they were concerned about the possibility of running out of
> bigint values. (Clearly it’s a pity more maths isn’t taught at schools).
>
My PC can do a for int loop up to 2^30 in about 20 seconds. To get to 2^63
non-stop it will take 5444 years -- *GK*
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Subject: Re: Odd text encoding
i think ive read it somewhere, a rule of thumb is if you dont need to do
calculations with your "number", make it a string
In 2006 where I was working they created a new SQL DB
Oh Yeah!
Friday rant to follow...
>From my experience there usually is no good reason for this sort of thing.
I've seen people attempt to store phone numbers as a number and surely most
here have seen similar things.
>Yea the phone number thing *facepalm*
>ask them how they gonna store 000 as num
; I'll just have to add a base64 decode function and I should be fine.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Greg
>>>>
>>>> Dr Greg Low
>>>>
>>>> 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410
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> i think ive read it somewhere, a rule of thumb is if you dont need to do
> calculations with your "number", make it a string
>
In 2006 where I was working they created a new SQL DB and the natural key
of the most important table was a 12 digit number (customer number I think)
and there were arg
pm, Stephen Price
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> How did you get my Azure certificate? wtf??
>> >>>
>> >>> Seriously though, the trailing == on the end (plus the overall look)
>> makes
>> >>> it look exactly like an A
t look exactly like an Azure publish certificate.
>> >>
>> >>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 at 08:39 Greg Low (罗格雷格博士)
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>> >>> Perfect thanks Thomas.
>> >>>
>> >>> I'll just have to add
> >>>
> >>> I'll just have to add a base64 decode function and I should be fine.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Greg
> >>>
> >>> Dr Greg Low
> >>>
> >>> 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775)
he trailing == on the end (plus the overall look)
> makes
> >>> it look exactly like an Azure publish certificate.
> >>>
> >>>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 at 08:39 Greg Low (罗格雷格博士)
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Perfect thanks Th
015 at 08:39 Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Perfect thanks Thomas.
>>>>
>>>> I'll just have to add a base64 decode function and I should be fine.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Greg
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> On 10 September 2015 at 10:21, Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) wrote:
> > This one’s driving me crazy
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On 10 September 2015 at 10:21, Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) wrote:
> This one’s driving me crazy and I thought the brains trust might ha
On 10 September 2015 at 10:21, Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) wrote:
> This one’s driving me crazy and I thought the brains trust might have an
> idea.
>
> Here’s a value that’s stored in an ntext column in a SQL Server DB:
> H4sIAAAEALVW0W7aMBT9lanvre0wBkNtJEo3DWkFBGGvyDiXYi22M9vpYL/Wh33SfmGGJASatKOS95KH3
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Subject: Odd text encoding
Hi Folks,
This one’s driving me crazy and I thought the brains trust might have an idea.
Here’s a value that’s stored in an ntext column in a SQL
Hi Folks,
This one’s driving me crazy and I thought the brains trust might have an idea.
Here’s a value that’s stored in an ntext column in a SQL Server DB:
H4sIAAAEALVW0W7aMBT9lanvre0wBkNtJEo3DWkFBGGvyDiXYi22M9vpYL/Wh33SfmGGJASatKOS95KH3HvPyTk+tvPn6fe1NLg3Bas5PMIsS0H3GVOZtJGm0lBmuZJfuLFKb99
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