On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:07:53 +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:03:41PM +0100, Mark Fowler typed:
Without starting a massive database war, is there anyway to get mysql to
forget about autoincremented values.
IME the way MySQL generates an auto-increment value
On or about Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Peter Haworth typed:
Surely you shouldn't rely on sequences being contiguous, anyway? Who cares
if your test eats up some values; their only purpose should be to ensure
uniqueness.
Contiguity becomes important when you're doing things like
Having a staging environment with a daily dump of live data and software
would be nice. you can mess with the data as much as you want. Obviously
that involves a lot of work to set-it up the first time and probably extra
hardware.
The other advantage is to have nice release procedure where you
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Pierre Denis wrote:
Having a staging environment with a daily dump of live data and software
would be nice. you can mess with the data as much as you want.
Sure, but at some point I have to make the code go live. And when I do
that I want to run the modules tests on
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:47:23AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Peter Haworth typed:
Surely you shouldn't rely on sequences being contiguous, anyway? Who cares
if your test eats up some values;
My company needs some security policies and procedures documentation.
You know, the kind of thing that says in writing Users must change
passwords every 30 days and Changes to firewall configuration must be
approved in writing by the CTO and so on.
I have no intention of reducing my own
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:24:22PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
My company needs some security policies and procedures documentation.
You know, the kind of thing that says in writing Users must change
passwords every 30 days and Changes to firewall configuration must be
Personally I
Michael Stevens wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:34:19PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
I'm not convinced that frequent password changing is good, because I find
it seems to lead to either frequent password resetting by administrators
(with inherent social engineering vulnerability) or
Having a staging environment with a daily dump of live data and software
would be nice. you can mess with the data as much as you want.
Sure, but at some point I have to make the code go live. And when I do
that I want to run the modules tests on the live server (who knowns what
subtle
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:24:22PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
My company needs some security policies and procedures documentation.
I have no intention of reducing my own sanity by actually sitting down
to write all this. So, does anyone know of any freelancers or cheap
Good move
At 10:47 16/07/02, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Peter Haworth typed:
Surely you shouldn't rely on sequences being contiguous, anyway? Who cares
if your test eats up some values; their only purpose should be to ensure
uniqueness.
Contiguity
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:56:23PM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote:
At 10:47 16/07/02, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Peter Haworth typed:
Surely you shouldn't rely on sequences being contiguous, anyway? Who cares
if your test eats up some values;
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:56:23PM +0100, Alex McLintock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At 10:47 16/07/02, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Peter Haworth typed:
Surely you shouldn't rely on sequences being contiguous, anyway? Who cares
if your test
* at 16/07 15:51 +0100 Dave Cross said:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:56:23PM +0100, Alex McLintock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
For the record I hit this sort of problem doing some perl web stuff with
Oracle.
It seemed that because Oracle was multiprocessor each oracle process would
Does anyone know whether, whilst using postgres, if a an insert followed
by a select currval on the index of the last insert, will give a not yet
defined in this session error on the select, when both statements are a
part of the same transaction?
*Deep breath*
Cheers,
Fiq
Can anyone recommend a higher authority that can force an (US) ISP to get
their act together, and stop spamming me with their misconfigured mail
software?
I have previously contacted earthlink.net over a spammer who is spoofing my
email address, yet despite explaining that I am not the spammer,
At 16/07/2002 15:59 [], you wrote:
snip RDBMSs not correctly [fsvo] auto-incrementing IDs /snip
MSSQL works in the expected manner. It's about the only one I can think of.
This sets off alarm bells along the lines of MSSQL does this right...All
the other (and generally faster, etc..BETTER)
Has anyone who signed up to write for Hungry Minds heard from them
recently?
Dave // Feeling paranoid
Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Haven't seen any money yet.
Heh. A returnd email would be nice.
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Editor-in-chief, The Highway Starhttp://www.thehighwaystar.com
Interim Technical Director, Web
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:10:37AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
Sure, but at some point I have to make the code go live. And when I do
that I want to run the modules tests on the live server (who knowns what
subtle differences may have snuck in) before I turn it live live.
Presumably you have
On or about Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:03:57PM +0100, Chris Ball typed:
- Chris, who has been forced to use Perl to play with Sybase and MSSQL
today, and hasn't wanted to kill people. Yet.
FreeTDS?
Roger
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 06:17:08PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
Perhaps we should sort out which chapters we have and put it up on
london.pm.org?
Perhaps we should get definite information on what's up with them before
we do that? Anyone got any contacts at Wiley, which owns HM?
Roger
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Nic Gibson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:56:23PM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote:
At 10:47 16/07/02, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Peter Haworth typed:
Surely you shouldn't rely on sequences being contiguous, anyway?
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:03:57PM +0100, Chris Ball typed:
- Chris, who has been forced to use Perl to play with Sybase and MSSQL
today, and hasn't wanted to kill people. Yet.
FreeTDS?
It's getting there - it will work against SQL
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 06:03:37PM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote:
[interesting stuff, but no quotes from any previous messages]
we've done the jepordy quoting is evil rant, we've skirted close to the
reply-to-list is evil flamewar, am I allowed to do the hitting reply is
bad complaint without
Chris Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone interested in converting it to SGML so it can be published
sensibly?
Doing me no good right now so...
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David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hirehttp://www.davehodgkinson.com
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:29:22PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 06:17:08PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
Perhaps we should sort out which chapters we have and put it up on
london.pm.org?
Perhaps we should get definite information on what's up with them before
we
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:50:03PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
I was thinking ahead to when it was clear they'd defaulted on the
contract :-) (He said hastily in case any NooYawk lawyers were reading
the list).
At such point as the contracts are void (bearing in mind that my
contracts, at
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