Bryan,
The patch is an attachment to the JIRA issue. Go to http:// issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1489 and look at the "File Attachments" section of the web page. You can download the patch just by clicking on it.
OK
To apply the patch, you'll need to learn how to build Derby from source code, which is described here: http://db.apache.org/derby/ derby_downloads.html#Derby+source+code and here: http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/ ForNewDevelopers#head-278c37b71407ea38bf6f3310a13d7ebce3e2a32c
This a bit beyond my expertise, although I could probably figure it out. When do you expect your patch to be integrated into a beta build?
Stephen
