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		<title>How to implement ISNUMERIC function in SQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Method 1: Select length (translate (trim (column_name),&#8217; +-.0123456789&#8242;,&#8217; &#8216;)) from dual ; Will give you a null if it is a number or greater than zero if not numeric (actually gives the count of non numeric characters) Method 2: select instr(translate(&#8217;12&#8242;, &#8216;abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ&#8217;, &#8216;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&#8217;),&#8217;X') FROM dual; It returns 0 if it is a number, 1 if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbelbahri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=661506&amp;post=67&amp;subd=rbelbahri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Convert Numbers to Word (up to 5 million)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Second saturday of each month</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Redouane BELBAHRI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; This query gives the second saturday of each month and can be adapted to get the 1st ou 3rd&#8230;  select next_day(add_months(round(sysdate,&#8216;y&#8217;)-1,rownum-1)+7,&#8216;Saturday&#8217;) as dt,to_char(next_day(add_months(round(sysdate,&#8216;y&#8217;)-1,rownum-1)+7,&#8216;Saturday&#8217;),&#8216;Day&#8217;) as dy from catwhere rownum &#60;= 12<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbelbahri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=661506&amp;post=64&amp;subd=rbelbahri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Executing shell script in BODI</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Redouane BELBAHRI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look through the documentation and found the function: &#8220;exec&#8221;. This function solved the problem: $G_UnixReturnErr = exec (&#8216;ksh&#8217;,&#8217;[$G_DelArchivedFiles] [$G_FilePathIn]&#8216;,2) ; where $G_DelArchivedFiles is the name of the unix shell script and $G_FilePathIn is the path given here as a parameters.  Example of unix shell script to delete files older 30 days: #!/usr/bin/ksh #============================================================================== ## Subject: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbelbahri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=661506&amp;post=63&amp;subd=rbelbahri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing the dominant approaches to enterprise data warehousing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Redouane BELBAHRI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kimball bus architecture and the Corporate Information Factory: What are the fundamental differences ? Read Article: http://www.intelligententerprise.com/ports/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17800088<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbelbahri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=661506&amp;post=62&amp;subd=rbelbahri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Data Integrator repository metadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Redouane BELBAHRI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve created some queries in order to display the status and other informations about running jobs: &#8211; Status of runing jobs select inst_machine      , service         , trunc(start_time)  set_date      , start_time      , end_time      , execution_time      , DECODE(status,&#8217;E',&#8217;ERROR&#8217;,'S&#8217;,'Started but not completed&#8217;,'D&#8217;,'Success&#8217;, status) Status      , has_error      , case when has_error [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbelbahri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=661506&amp;post=61&amp;subd=rbelbahri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Components of a Database</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Redouane BELBAHRI</dc:creator>
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		<title>Oracle SQL Hints</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Redouane BELBAHRI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[/*+ hint */ /*+ hint(argument) */ /*+ hint(argument-1 argument-2) */   All hints except /*+ rule */ cause the CBO to be used. Therefore, it is good practise to analyze the underlying tables if hints are used (or the query is fully hinted. There should be no schema names in hints. Hints must use aliases [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbelbahri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=661506&amp;post=59&amp;subd=rbelbahri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Convert Seconds to Hours, Minutes Seconds as h:mm:ss</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Redouane BELBAHRI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Handles up to 65533 seconds, which returns 18:12:13, as in 18 hours, 12 minutes, and 13 seconds. That should suffice for most operations. If not, write me, and if I am compelled enough I might juice it up some more.  Enjoy. Public Function ConvertSeconds(lSeconds As Long) As String     &#8216;Declare temporary variables     Dim lTmpMinutes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbelbahri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=661506&amp;post=58&amp;subd=rbelbahri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Importing And Exporting To Text Files</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Redouane BELBAHRI</dc:creator>
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