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Desktop

  • Gentoo Linux 2003 - 2009
    • First experience with Linux 4Q 2003
    • Long term functioning, dual boot, Linux install 4Q 2004
    • Stopped using Windows on a regular basis, approximately 2006
  • Arch Linux 2009 - present

Server ( well professionally, as I constantly run servers daemons on my desktop )

  • CentOS 2006 - 2007, 2010 - Present
    • BusinessGrade - Systems Administration Intern
    • Liquid Web - Linux System Administrator

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May
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accepted update column based on the sort order of another query
Apr
4
revised update column based on the sort order of another query
edited tags
Apr
4
asked update column based on the sort order of another query
Apr
4
comment Arbitrarily ordering records in a table
how do you calculate the number in between?
Mar
28
awarded  Notable Question
Mar
6
comment Materialized View PostgreSQL
of course when the beta's start hitting... or you could just build from source...
Jan
11
comment PostgreSQL: how can queries possibly be “immutable” / functional?
the inclusion of a functional feature does not mean that the language is purely functional, nore does the primary paradigm being something else preclude a functional feature.
Jan
4
awarded  Yearling
Nov
2
comment What AWS instance to choose for write-heavy PostgreSQL database server
keep in mind that Virtual machines in general aren't designed for IO. If you're having problems it might be time to leave the cloud and get a hardware cluster.
Oct
9
awarded  Enlightened
Oct
9
awarded  Nice Answer
Jul
17
awarded  Popular Question
Jun
11
accepted is id and phone number enough to uniquely identify a row in phone numbers
Jun
11
comment is id and phone number enough to uniquely identify a row in phone numbers
problem with storing them as anything but 5555551234 ... is are you sure international numbers consist of only 10 digits formatted that way? personal opinion, it's better to strip all formatting out of the database storage, saves space and is consistant to deal with.
Jun
10
comment is id and phone number enough to uniquely identify a row in phone numbers
yeah I get it, I'm just kind of adding discussion to make people think about the problem that phone numbers can really make.
Jun
10
comment is id and phone number enough to uniquely identify a row in phone numbers
to some degree, but if you're an international company I never wanted to deal with that complexity, 5 digit country code + 15 digit? phone number (I'd have to look) + 11 digit extension was enough not to worry about how the locals my store the local part.
Jun
10
comment is id and phone number enough to uniquely identify a row in phone numbers
note varchar 4 may be insufficient for extensions, because some ridiculous softwares allow extensions up to 11 digits long, just saying.
Jun
10
comment is id and phone number enough to uniquely identify a row in phone numbers
people consider storing them as some sort of INT? phone numbers are not numbers, but what I call "numeric codes" which means strings that consists of only digits, in which no math really makes sense.
Jun
10
comment is id and phone number enough to uniquely identify a row in phone numbers
but what if 0 is the valid extension... nothing prevents one from using 0 as extension (AFAIK though convention is an operator)
Jun
10
asked is id and phone number enough to uniquely identify a row in phone numbers