Any ideas on best approach?

I need ideas on how to best compare a users input against my randomly generated characters. ie does the users input of say, "abc", match what the computer has generated? how can i return the information to the user?

if (computerGenerated.equals(userEntered)) {
System.out.println("They match!");
else {
System.out.println("Computer had " + computerGenerated);
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[FAQ: The Future of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence in the Light of the NetWeaver BI & Business Objects Roadmap|FAQ - The Future of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence in the Light of the NetWeaver BI&Business Objects Roadmap [original link is broken]|FAQ]
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File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/twi sted/internet/defer.py", line 1099, in _inlineCallbacks
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]         result = g.send(result)
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]       File "/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/Library/CalendarServer/lib/python 2.7/site-packages/txdav/caldav/datastore/sql.py", line 3635, in component
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]         e, self._resourceID
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2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     BEGIN:VCALENDAR
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     VERSION:2.0
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     PRODID:-//Apple Inc.//Mac OS X 10.8.2//EN
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     BEGIN:VEVENT
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     UID:[email protected]
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     DTSTART:20121114T215900Z
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     DTEND:20121114T232700Z
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     CLASS:PUBLIC
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     CREATED:20121108T123850Z
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     DESCRIPTION:Flight leg 2 of 2 for trip from MSP to LAX\\nhttp://www.google.
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]      com/search?q=US+29+flight+status\\nBooked on November 8\\, 2012\\n
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     DTSTAMP:20121114T210756Z
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     GEO:33.4341666667\\;-112.008055556
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     LAST-MODIFIED:20121108T123850Z
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     LOCATION:Sky Harbor International Airport\\, Phoenix\\, AZ
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     SEQUENCE:0
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     STATUS:CONFIRMED
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     SUMMARY:US 29 from PHX to LAX
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     URL:http://www.hipmunk.com/flights/MSP-to-LAX#!dates=Nov14,Nov17&group=1&s
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]      elected_flights=96f6fbfd91,be8b5c748d;kind=flight&locations=MSP,LAX&dates=
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]      Nov14,Nov16&group=1&selected_flights=96f6fbfd91,
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     END:VEVENT
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     BEGIN:X-CALENDARSERVER-PERUSER
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     UID:[email protected]
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     X-CALENDARSERVER-PERUSER-UID:D0737009-CBEE-4251-A288-E6FCE5E00752
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     BEGIN:X-CALENDARSERVER-PERINSTANCE
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     TRANSP:OPAQUE
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     BEGIN:VALARM
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     ACKNOWLEDGED:20121114T210756Z
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     ACTION:AUDIO
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     ATTACH:Basso
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     TRIGGER:-PT2H
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     UID:040C4AB7-EF30-4F0C-9D46-6A85C7250444
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     X-APPLE-DEFAULT-ALARM:TRUE
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     X-WR-ALARMUID:040C4AB7-EF30-4F0C-9D46-6A85C7250444
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     END:VALARM
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     END:X-CALENDARSERVER-PERINSTANCE
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     END:X-CALENDARSERVER-PERUSER
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     END:VCALENDAR
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]     ) in id: 3405
2015-01-31 07:14:41-0600 [-] [caldav-0]
2015-01-31 07:16:39-0600 [-] [caldav-1] [-] [txdav.common.datastore.sql#error] Transaction abort too long: PG-TXN</Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/Library/CalendarServer/lib/ python2.7/site-packages/calendarserver/tools/purge.py#1032$_cancelEvents>, Statements: 5, IUDs: 0, Statement: None
2015-01-31 08:08:40-0600 [-] [caldav-1] [AMP,client] [calendarserver.tools.purge#warn] Cleaning up future events for principal A95C9DB2-9757-46B2-ADF6-4DECE2728820 since they are no longer in directory
2015-01-31 08:09:10-0600 [-] [caldav-1] [-] [twext.enterprise.jobqueue#error] JobItem: 39, WorkItem: 762001 failed: ERROR: canceling statement due to statement timeout
2015-01-31 08:09:10-0600 [-] [caldav-1]
2015-01-31 08:13:40-0600 [-] [caldav-1] [-] [txdav.common.datastore.sql#error] Transaction abort too long: PG-TXN</Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/Library/CalendarServer/lib/ python2.7/site-packages/calendarserver/tools/purge.py#1032$_cancelEvents>, Statements: 5, IUDs: 0, Statement: None

<facepalm> Well, there you go. It turns out I was over-thinking this. The Calendar app on a Mac can manage this database just fine. Sorry about that. There may be an easier way to do this, but here's how I did it.
Use the Calendar.app on a local computer to:
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- Create a new local calendar (Calendar -> File -> New Calendar -> On My Mac)
- Import the corrupted calendar into the new/empty local calendar (Calendar -> File -> Import...)
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Hi,
We have to upgrade R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0
We have to do th DB, Unicode and R/3 upgrade. I want to know what are the best approaches available and what risks are associated iwth each approach.
We have been considering the following approaches (but need to understand the risk for each approach).
1) DB and Unicode in 1st and then R/3 upgrade after 2-3 months
I want to understand that if we have about 700 Include Program changing as part of unicode conversion, how much of the functional testing is required fore this.
2) DB in 1st step and then Unicode and R/3 together after 2-3 months
Does it makes sense to combine Unicode and R/3 as both require similar testing? Is it possible to do it in 1 weekend with minimum downtime. We have about 2 tera bytes of data and will be using 2 systems fdor import and export during unicode conversion
3) DB and R/3 in 1st step and then Unicode much later
We had discussion with SAP and they say there is a disclaimer on not doing Unicode. But I also understand that this disclaimer does not apply if we are on single code page. Can someone please let us know if this is correct and also if doing Unicode later will have any key challenges apart from certain language character not being available.
We are on single code pages 1100 and data base size is about 2 tera bytes
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Hi Rahul
regarding your 'Unicode doubt"' some ideas:
1) The Upgrade Master Guide SAP ERP 6.0 and the Master Guide SAP ERP 6.0 include introductory information. Among other, these guides reference the SAP Service Marketplace-location http://service.sap.com/unicode@sap.
2) In Unicode@SAP can you find several (content-mighty) FAQs
Conclusion from the FAQ: First of all your strategy needs to follow your busienss model (which we can not see from here):
Example. The "Upgrade to mySAP ERP 2005"-FAQ includes interesting remarks in section "DO CUSTOMERS NEED TO CONVERT TO A UNICODE-COMPLIANT ENVIRONMENT?"
"...The Unicode conversion depends on the customer situation....
... - If your organization runs a single code page system prior to the upgrade to mySAP ERP 2005, then the use of Unicode is not mandatory. ..... However, using Unicode is recommended if the system is deployed globally to facilitate interfaces and connections.
- If your organization uses Multiple Display Multiple Processing (MDMP) .... the use of Unicode is mandatory for the mySAP ERP 2005 upgrade....."
In the Technical Unicode FAQ you read under "What are the advantages of Unicode ...", that "Proper usage of JAVA is only possible with Unicode systems (for example, ESS/MSS or interfaces to Enterprise Portal). ....
=> Depending on the fact if your systems support global processes, or depending on your use of Java Applications, your strategy might need to look different
3) In particular in view of your 3rd option, I recommend you to take a look into these FAQs, if not already done.
Remark: mySAP ERP 2005 is the former name of the application, which is named SAP ERP 6.0, now
regards, and HTH, Andreas R

Any ideas on how to do a local mirror for this situation?

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The problem is that the connection to internet from work is generally really bad during the day. There's a HTTP proxy in the middle. The other day I tried installing archlinux using the FTP image and I took more than 5 hours just to do an upgrade + installing subversion and other packages, right after an FTP installation (which wasn't fast either).
The idea is that the frontend (the main node of the cluster) would hold a local mirror of packages so that when nodes install use that mirror (the frontend would use this also, because of the bad speed).
As I think it should be better to only update the mirror and perform an upgrade not very often (if something breaks I would leave users stranded until I fix it), I thought I should download a snapshot of extra/ and current/ only once. But the best speed I get from rsync (even at night, where an HTTP transfer from kernel.org goes at 200KB/s) is ~13KB/s this would take days (and when it's done I would have to resync because of any newer package that could have been released in the meantime).
I could download extra/ and current/ at home (I have 250KB/s downstream but I get like ~100KB/s from rsync), record several CDs (6!... ~(3GB + 700MB)/700MB) but that's not very nice. I think that maybe this would be just for the first time. Afterwards an rsync would take a lot less, but I don't know how much less.
Obiously I could speed things a little If I download the full ISO and rsync current using that as a base. But for extra/ I don't have a ISOs.
I think this is a little impractical (to download everything) as I wouldn't need whole extra/ anyways. But it's hard to know all packages needed and their dependencies to download only those.
So... I would like to know if anyone has any ideas on how to make this practical. I wouldn't wan't my whole project to crumble because of this detail.
It's annoying because using pacman at home, always works at max speed.
BTW, I've read that HOWTO that explains how to mount pacman's cache on the nodes to have a shared cache. But I'm not very sure if that's a good option. Anyway, that would imply to download everything at work, which would take years.

V01D wrote:After installation the packages that are in cache are the ones from current. All the stuff from extra/ won't be there until I install something from there.
Anyway, if I installl from a full CD I get old packages which I have to pacman -Syu after installation (that takes long time).
Oh, so that's how is it.
V01D wrote:
I think I'm going to try out this:
* rsync at home (already got current last night)
* burn a DVD
* go to work and then update the packages on DVD using rsync again (this should be fast, if I don't wait long time after recording it)
And to optimize further rsync's:
* Do a first install on all nodes an try it out for a few days (so I install all packages needed)
* Construct a list of packages used by all nodes and frontend
* Remove them from my mirror
* Do further rsync updates only updating the files I already have
This would be the manual approach of the shared cache idea I think.
Hmm... but why do you want to use rsync? You'll need to download the whole repo, which is quite large (current + extra + testing + community > 5.1GB, extra is the largest). I suggest you to download only those packages and their dependencies that you use.
I have similar situation. At work I have unlimited traffic (48kbps at day and 128kbps at night), at home - fast connection (up to 256kbps) but I pay for every megabyte (a little, but after 100-500 megabytes it becomes very noticeable). So I do
yes | pacman -Syuw
or
yes | pacman -Syw pkg1 pkg2 ... pkgN
at work (especially when packages are big), then put new downloaded files on my flash drive, then put them into /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ at home, and then I only need to do pacman -Sy before installing which takes less than a minute.
I have 1GB flashdrive so I can always keep the whole cache on it. Synchronizing work cache <-> flash drive <-> home cache is very easy.
P.S.: Recently I decided to make complete mirror of all i686 packages from archlinux.org with rsync. Not for myself but for my friends that wanted to install Linux. Anyway I don't pay for every megabyte at my work. However it took almost a week to download 5.1 GB of packages.
IMHO for most local mirror solutions using rsync is overkill. How many users are there that use more than 30% of packages from repos? So why to make full mirror with rsync when you can cache only installed packages?

What is the best approach to handle multiple FK with single table.

If two tables are joined with each other with more than one ways, for example
MAIN table is (col1, col2,....coln, person_creator_id, person_modifier_id)
PERSON table is (person_id, name, address,........ phone) etc
At database level PERSON_CREATOR_FK and PERSON_MODIFIER_FK are defined.
Objective is to create a report that shows
col1, col2...coln, person creator name, person modifier name
If above two objects are imported with FKs in a EUL and discoverer plus is used to create above report. On first inclusion of person name discoverer plus will ask you to pick the join (provided the checkbox to disable this feature is not checked). Once you pick 'person creator' join it will never allow you to pick person modifier name.
One solution is two create a custom folder with query like
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pc.name, pc.address,.... pc.phone
pm.name, pm.address,.... pm.phone
from main m,
person pc,
person pm
where m.person_id_creator = pc.person_id
and m.person_id_modifier = pm.person_id
Second solution is to import the PERSON folder twice in EUL (optionally named one as perosn_creator and other as person_modifier) and manually define one join per table. i.e. join MAIN with PERSON_CREATOR on person_creator_fk and join MAIN with PERSON_MODIFIER table using person_modifier_fk.
Now discoverer plus will let you drag Name from each person folder without needing to resolve multiple joins.
Question is, what approach is better OR is there a better way?
With solution 1 you will not be able to use functions on folder items.
With solution 2 there is a EUL design overhead of including same object multiple times and then manually defining all join (or deleting unwanted joins), and this could be a problem when you have person_modifier and person_creator in nearly all tables. It could be more complicated if person table is further linked other tables and users want to see that information too. (for instance, if person address is stored in LOCATION table joined with location_id and user want to see both creator address and modifier address....now you will have to create multiple LOCATION folders).
A third solution could be to register a function in discoverer that return person name when person_id is passed. This will work perfectly for above requirement but a down side is the report will run slower if they need filters on person names (then function will be used in where clause). Also, this solution is very specific to above scenario, it will not work if you want the report developer the freedom to pick any attribute from person table (lets say, person table contain 50 attributes then its not a good idea to register 50 functions).
Any comments/suggestion will be appreciated.
thanks

Hi
In a roundabout way you have really answered your own question :-)
In my opinion, the best approach, although by all means not the only approach - see below) would be to have the object loaded as two folders with one join going to the first folder and the second join to the other folder. You would of course name the folders appropriately.
Here's a workflow that I use all of the time and one that I teach when I'm giving Discoverer Administrator training. It might help you:
1. Bring in the PERSON folder to begin with
2. Make all necessary adjustments to bring it up to deployment standard. These adjustments would be: folder name (E.g PERSON_CREATOR), item names, item placement, default positions, default aggregation and so on.
3. Create or assign the required lists of values
4. Create any required calculations
5. Create any required conditions
6. Create the first join from this folder to MAIN.
7. Click on the heading for the folder and press CTRL-C.
8. Click on the heading for the business area and press CTRL-V. A second copy of the folder, complete with all of the adjustments you made earlier will be inserted into the business area.
Note: joins are not copied, everything else is.
9. Rename this folder to say PERSON_MODIFIED
10. Rename the items as appropriate
11. Add a join from this folder to MAIN - you're done
Other ideas that I have used and work well would be to use a database view or create a complex folder. Either will work, In both cases you would need to join on some other column other than the ones you referred earlier.
I hope this helps
Best wishes
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Thanks and regards,
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Thanks Ravi. While there are more than one possible solutions to the immediated problem, I am actually looking for a design pattern which SAP recommends or a customer has developed to address the issues related to synchronization of master data in a Central MDM environment.
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