Re: Derby Aggregate Function

2007-11-02 Thread Rick Hillegas
Cloudscape (the codeline which Derby is based on) used to include user-defined aggregates, which you could declare with a CREATE AGGREGATE statement. DERBY-672 tracks the effort to put user-defined aggregates into Derby. It sounds as though you might want to volunteer for this effort. That

Re: Writing to BLOBs

2007-11-02 Thread Stanley Bradbury
Williamson, Nick wrote: Hi all, In Oracle, when you want to update a BLOB, you have to do this first: set my_blob_column=empty_blob(); ...which initializes it and opens it up for writing. Oracle has a concept of a locator, which I guess is similar to a pointer or handle to the BLOB

Re: Case insensitive indexed search possible?

2007-11-02 Thread Bernt M. Johnsen
Rick Hillegas wrote (2007-11-02 05:21:09): Hi Jon, The situation with case-insensitive searching did not change in the latest 10.3 release and no one has volunteered to address this issue in the next feature release, 10.4. If you want to avoid the full table scan, you can store the text

Re: Derby v SQLite

2007-11-02 Thread David Van Couvering
Very nice! Is Java DB embedded in the applet, or used solely on the server side? David On Oct 31, 2007 2:41 PM, David Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found the replies to my query interesting. I guess I need to ask my son why he favours SQLite. I much prefer to stick with a Java-based

Re: Case insensitive indexed search possible?

2007-11-02 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
Bernt M. Johnsen wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote (2007-11-02 05:21:09): Hi Jon, The situation with case-insensitive searching did not change in the latest 10.3 release and no one has volunteered to address this issue in the next feature release, 10.4. If you want to avoid the full table scan,

Re: Case insensitive indexed search possible?

2007-11-02 Thread Daniel John Debrunner
Daniel John Debrunner wrote: Bernt M. Johnsen wrote: Rick Hillegas wrote (2007-11-02 05:21:09): Hi Jon, The situation with case-insensitive searching did not change in the latest 10.3 release and no one has volunteered to address this issue in the next feature release, 10.4. See

DerbySQLroutines aggregate functions

2007-11-02 Thread Mike Bushman
Hello, I wish to see an example of how to write a DerbySQLroutines aggregate function. My idea is to write a commaDelim() function that will comma delimit an aggregated column in a group by sql. Thanks, Mike Bushman | Director, Product Development WingateWeb .::: The Event Technology

Re: Case insensitive indexed search possible?

2007-11-02 Thread Rick Hillegas
Hi Jon, The situation with case-insensitive searching did not change in the latest 10.3 release and no one has volunteered to address this issue in the next feature release, 10.4. If you want to avoid the full table scan, you can store the text in two columns: mixed case in one column, and

Re: having a problem with not in

2007-11-02 Thread tyoup
thank you for pointing out the request with the not exists syntax for some reason i won't use the except syntax since i would have te write almost twice the same request i was stuck with not in since it was working with oracle it was confusing thank you very much Tyoup oysteing wrote: