Since I work in a company that relies heavily on COBOL processing, we have a lot of fixed length files in our batch environment and occasionally I end up interacting with these files in Java. Traditionally we've used an IBM proprietary product to generate...
Pivot Database Rows Into A Single Column
There are times when a result single record is desired instead of multiple rows, for instance when joining a main table again multiple records in a child table. Say that I have an email and recipients table as follows
EMAILS
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ID...
Printing Tabular Data
Sometimes when I'm running tests, or pulling information from a database, I want to see the results in table so that it's easy to parse through the information and see what's there. For instance, let's say that I wanted to see the following information...
Code Highlighting For Posts
Found a neat tool today: hilit.me which will take code and create a HTML friendly version of it that can be used to post to web-sites. Like this blog for instan...
Randomized Data Pool
In my years as a Java developer, I've done a lot of simple performance tests to see how one method of processing compared to another, but one of the issues that I've run into was the effect of database caching on the performance results.
If the two...
