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Comment on Don’t drop your iPhone, drop your SGS2 instead – http://techdunes.com/2012/01/17/drop-test-iphone… by Brian Douglas

Brian Douglas — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:48:15 +0000

My mate Phil showed me a video of the inside of his daughter’s mouth on his iPhone 4S. Needless to say it wasn’t intentionally taken, but very funny. You can hear Phil panicing from the far side of the room, “Hey, is that my phone?”
It was him that got me on to the Otterbox cases, they’ve a big rubber plug in most of the holes (dock, headphone etc), making them reasonably suck-proof.

Comment on Don’t drop your iPhone, drop your SGS2 instead – http://techdunes.com/2012/01/17/drop-test-iphone… by Stephen Houston

Stephen Houston — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:43:42 +0000

They are both made out of glass, the same gorilla glass at that.

The SGS2 has fared pretty well to Noah sucking it, chewing it and dropping it. He hasn’t been let near D’s iPhone on the other hand

Comment on Don’t drop your iPhone, drop your SGS2 instead – http://techdunes.com/2012/01/17/drop-test-iphone… by Brian Douglas

Brian Douglas — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:34:08 +0000

This comment is just because I forgot to tick the ‘Notify me’ of followup comments. Oops.

Comment on Don’t drop your iPhone, drop your SGS2 instead – http://techdunes.com/2012/01/17/drop-test-iphone… by Brian Douglas

Brian Douglas — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:32:36 +0000

Bet neither is Noah proof. Actually I’ve recently replaced my old iPhone 4 bumper with the Otterbox Commuter. Just as well because I’ve dropped it a couple of times on tiles in the last week. That’s the thing though, because I always buy a good protective case for my phone, the drop test isn’t a huge deal breaker for me.
Out of curiosity is the front screen of the Samsung made of glass? Of course glass is likely to shatter when dropped, but it’s more scratch resistant than plastics. So there may well be a trade off.

Comment on SQL is English by elonelung

elonelung — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:24:00 +0000

Dude … take a chillax pill ! …what client are you using … use toad (if you can get a license) … SQL PLUS is fine for me running in the commands using the semi-colon …
no probs …
you have created a table with the table with a column name called ‘date’ … date being a oracle keyword, the database decides to poop itself … ORA-00928s?

SQL> create table TABLE1 (mydate date, myusername varchar2(20));

SQL> INSERT INTO TABLE1(mydate, myusername)
VALUES (’10-jan-2008′, ‘fred’);

blam … no probs … or as the kids would say … brappp brappp brappp

Default string format for date fields is DD-MON-YY
you can use the to_date and to_char functions, which provide support for this ISO-8001 one thing :

select to_char(sysdate,’YYYY-MM-DD’) from dual;

Oracle stores its date data in a special format, and returns data through the to_char function, defaulting the format of the string returned to DD-MON-YYYY …
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/fcdb/oracle/or-time.html

Also askTom ftw..

Comment on SQL is English by John Girvin

John Girvin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:11:05 +0000

“The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from”.

Our product supports multiple database engines out of the box and we hit incompatibilities all the time. We tackle it partially by defining our schema in XML then using XSLT in the build/install process to create engine specific scripts. Some parts we can’t or don’t automate this way though, and those still have to be hand tuned for each engine … I had to navigate the Oracle date formatting maze myself not so long ago.

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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:09:59 +0000

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