Marshall's Weblog

Looks like it! There is a beta version out which supports stored procedures, views, metadata, and triggers. Each article has a link at the bottom of the page to larger PDF documents.

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One of the coolest things that I ever found out when learning Unix/Linux was tab completion in bash. It made typing long path names easier and you didn’t need to know the exact path that you wanted to go to. You could “browse” the file directory this way. Then I found that it worked for [...]

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Gas in Wisconsin has risen about $0.60 a gallon this year and now stands at $2.39 (that is less then $0.10 cheaper then Los Angeles according to www.gaspricewatch.com). Starting on April 1, the Wisconsin gas tax will rise to 29.9 cents per gallon, a new state record (and since we are the highest taxed state [...]

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Apparently NW Washington was in a drought emergency, that was, until today. The forecast is for rain for the next week. Today I drove from Port Angeles, through Olympic National Park, stopped at the Pacific ocean, and drove around Hwy 101 loop to Olympia before returning to Seattle. My hotel is 2 blocks from the [...]

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Well, I woke up at 6 AM this morning to get an early start on things. It is raining, what a surprise, but when I turned on the weather channel, they say that a low in the Pacific will be feeding copious amounts of rain over the state in the next few days. We are [...]

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So it is 6:10 PM Pacific time and I have been up since effectively 1 AM Pacific. My rescheduled flight turned out pretty good. After a quick trip to Detriot, I found out that I was flying First Class from Detroit to Seattle. Dude!!! Sweet!!! We got breakfast while everyone else in the plane had [...]

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Well, Northwest Airlines kept bumping me back in the On-Call list, so I cancelled my flight today and rescheduled it for Friday morning. I also bumped back my return flight from Sunday until Tuesday, so my trip will be the same length. To do this, I had to take an extra day off of work [...]

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