by Jason L Froebe on May 1, 2013, no comments
Join us in our efforts to support Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association! As you know, our darling Asher has Apraxia. He is talking more and more each day, but every word is a battle for him. This research has had a direct impact on his ability to speak, and other kids like him. So help [...]
by Jason L Froebe on April 23, 2013, no comments
I needed to copy the permissions from one database to another but the sp__helprotect stored procedure in Ed Barlow’s Extended System Stored Procedure Library for Sybase and Sql Server wasn’t producing output with “GRANT” and “REVOKE”. It also had problems with DBCC privileges. Here you go: sp__helprotect.sql /* Procedure copyright(c) 1995 by Edward M Barlow [...]
by Jason L Froebe on April 12, 2013, no comments
Nikesh Jauhari over on the Linux Poison blog, posted about the free eBook – Java Application Development on Linux, a 599 page ebook from informIT. Yeah, when you download the book, you will need to give informIT your contact info. If you don’t want to, you could probably just use an email address that you [...]
by Jason L Froebe on April 12, 2013, no comments
Download the ebfs (patches) for PowerBuilder 11x and 12x now before Sybase removes them from the my.sybase.com! Announcement from SAP/Sybase: April 11, 2013 Dear Valued Sybase Customer: This letter provides notification of the end of sale for the following versions of Sybase PowerBuilder. Product Platform End of Sale Migration Path PowerBuilder 12.x Windows 04/15/2013 PowerBuilder [...]
by Jason L Froebe on April 9, 2013, no comments
I came up with the following example a few years back. Crypt::CBC is quite easy to use but can be confusing to new users of it. I prefer to use the subroutines encrypt_hex and decrypt as the encoded string is hexidecimal not in binary format. This allows me to work with it as if it [...]