Re: [U2] Slow READ/WRITE with indexes (Nick Gettino)

2010-09-13 Thread Dave Davis
Hundreds of characters. My example concatenates a bunch of attributes like name and address together to see if there are any matching records already on file, before creating a new record. I set the alternate key length to 160 for this one index, and nothing bad happened (so far). I use that

[U2] [UV] Is anyone storing multi-byte names or addresses

2010-09-13 Thread Baker Hughes
Hey, Just wondering how others have approached this - storing multi-byte names and addresses for non-English languages. I don't think we're approaching the demarcation line where an NLS implementation would be warranted, with the Administrative overhead that incurs. We are doing a lot more

Re: [U2] [UV] Is anyone storing multi-byte names or addresses

2010-09-13 Thread Symeon Breen
We do store multi byte stuff, the biggest issues we have are not in the storing but in its identification so that you can then transport and display it correctly, we often get the data in xml files so we need to know that the file has the correct character set definition, similarly the data is

Re: [U2] EMailing from Universe

2010-09-13 Thread Jeff Schasny
End users are picky. They want to be able to send pretty formatted HTML message bodies and mixed MIME multipart messages with Excel spreadsheets and .pdf's and .jpgs' attached. Symeon Breen wrote: What could be simpler than the shell commands i gave examples of - why would you complicate it

Re: [U2] EMailing from Universe

2010-09-13 Thread Symeon Breen
The pretty content is separate to the sending mechanism - you can create a mime document in many ways and use the mutt or mail command to send it in just the same manner. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf

Re: [U2] EMailing from Universe

2010-09-13 Thread Jeff Schasny
Or sendmail and blat which is what I'm using. My point is that using mutt as you describe sends whatever file you specify as an attachment, not as the body of the message. Symeon Breen wrote: The pretty content is separate to the sending mechanism - you can create a mime document in many

Re: [U2] EMailing from Universe

2010-09-13 Thread Symeon Breen
Ah ok I see We usually generate an html email, mime encode it into a text file and do something like cat mimeFile | mail -s {subject} emailaddress -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Schasny