Re: ouch

  • From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:12:29 +0100

bother, in the time that it takes for me to run the same thing 3 times to
ensure it was repeatable 2 people beat me to it. I'd add that mySQL has both
a substr and substring function and MSSQL has a substring function only (so
I expect they've lifted code from that).


> Given the obvious lack of mastery of PL/SQL (I have already met many
> developers who thought that select into from dual was the only way to assign
> a value to a variable in PL/SQL), I suspect it was some quick and dirty port
> from a DBMS that has a substring() function, such as MySQL or Sybase/SQL
> Server. You should teach your developers grep and sed.
>
>

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
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