Simple Translate Q:

Simple Translate Q:
SELECT TRANSLATE('76051-9098','-','') FROM DUAL
I need to get '760519098' off this..
When i give a ' ' -- Iam getting a ' ' inbetween(Obvious!!)
But when i do '' -- A Null string is returned..
How do i overcome this..
Mohan.

This should do it.
SELECT replace('76051-9098', substr('-',1,1),'') as WORKS FROM DUAL;
Anyone know why Oracle's site is so slow? I thought it was my network at work this morning but even from home its taking ages.

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>>I think you'll find significant disagreement here
about the following
Yes, here, I definitely will find significant disagreement.
But I'm very
much of the opinion that publishing to the web is for the
masses, not just
for you folk with the time, motivation, and expereince to
deal with the
range of issues relating to css layout. The simplicity of
tables far
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>>There is nothing worse than a morass of nested tables
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>>not
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rendering properly.
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>>some
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problems.
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nonsensical
(seeming) twists and turns that must be taken to get it to
work properly -
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>>Everyone here (I think) agrees that if tables work
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people inside
of amorning to a day. You'd need weeks to months to teach
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scare the crap
out them with css layout.
"Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
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>I think you'll find significant disagreement here about
the following -
>
> * CSS for layout is simply not there yet
> * Its only the accesibility issue which tables lose
points for
> * Possibly, the only benefit of css layout is that it
can be centrally
> goverened through a linked style sheet, but even this
can be done with DW
> templates and tables
>
> CSS for layout is certainly "there". Perhaps it's not
there for you, but
> it surely is for others.
>
> There is nothing worse than a morass of nested tables
spanned to death,
> not only for you as the maintainer of the site, but also
for the browsers,
> some of which simply cannot render such pages. CSS
layouts do not have
> these problems.
>
> Future maintainence, bandwidth usage, and simplicity of
layout are big
> benefits of using CSS as opposed to tables.
>
> But let's not make this a holy war. Nobody here is
saying that you have
> to replace tables with CSS. Everyone here (I think)
agrees that if tables
> work better for you, then use them. BUT use them
correctly if you are
> going to do that. It's pretty simple, really....
>
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hack and is difficult
>> for people to learn, especially causal web designers
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>> the time to amass all teh knowledge and expereince
needed just to get a
>> simple css layout working in both major browsers.
One of the things that
>> made the web so big was how simple it was to publish
to - CSS layout is a
>> step backward in this regard.
>>
>> tables are still fine for most sites, a perfectly
valid choice. Its only
>> the accesibility issue which tables lose points for.
Possibly, the only
>> benefit of css layout is that it can be centrally
goverened through a
>> linked style sheet, but even this can be done with
DW templates and
>> tables, or dynamic pages and tables (ie: asp.net
master pages).
>>
>> I am 50 / 50 these days as to wether css layout is
worth the hassle for
>> the average website being bult by the avergae
person.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "FreakyJesus" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> Very well said, Thierry
>>> And Arrdvark, I hear you on this:
>>> "it almost always causes total confusion as to
"why" this is the case
>>> and puts
>>> people right off CSS altogther."
>>> I am showing a friend how to use CSS (blind
leading the blind) and on a
>>> regular basis she's like "wouldn't this be
easier with tables within
>>> tables."
>>> Css CAN be very confusing.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
>>> Al wrote:
>>> > On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:39:18 -0500, Murray
*ACE*
>>> > <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Not only something different, but an
inferior choice at that!
>>>
>>> > I guess it can sometimes be difficult for
an inexperienced user to
>>> > assess and evaluate multiple solutions. If
there are downsides to
>>> > public forums, that would be at least one
of them. It's hard enough
>>> > for newbies to assess a single solution,
but wading through a
>>> > sub-discussion between third-parties
micro-analyzing their personal
>>> > favorite solutions can be untenable.
>>>
>>> I agree, but I can also understand that it can
be frustrating for people
>>> (people in general) who try to help to see that
the OP (OPs in general)
>>> didn't even try a solution that didn't require
too much effort.
>>> IMHO, there was not much for the OP to go
through here since *early* in
>>> this
>>> thread, the OP had everything to make it work.
>>> First post FreakyJesus said to set up the
left/right margin of the DIV
>>> to
>>> "auto" and second post Murray gives a very
explicit "fix" for IE5:
>>> body { text-align:center; }
>>> #graybox { text-align:left; }
>>> Actually, just trying margin auto could have
been enough for the OP.
>>> Sometimes it is important to know "some"
Javascript, HTML or else to be
>>> able
>>> to implement (not necessary understand) a
solution, but here it was not
>>> the
>>> case.
>>>
>>> Nothing against the OP here, and nothing to get
excited either ;-)
>>> This is just a general statement about the other
side of the coin.
>>>
>>> > Note to self: Recite Serenity Prayer before
posting here in the
>>> > future.
>>>
>>> Let's hope that works :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thierry
>>> Articles and Tutorials:
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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I'm shooting for the first time today with an HD Camera. I'm going to shoot in SD, but which aspect ratio? 16:9 or 4:3? I don't know what type of TV the video will ultimately be viewed on, but I'd like the flexibility for it to look great on both widescreen and standard TVs (letterboxed).
Thanks.

I'd like the flexibility for it to look great on both widescreen and standard TVs (letterboxed).
Agreed. It's a subjective thing, but widescreens conforms more closely to the area of vision of the human eye. Here is how I achieve that. (see the punch line at the end):
HOW TO MAINTAIN 16:9 ASPECT FROM IMPORT TO BURN
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The widescreen preview works just fine when you check your finished project within iDVD. The problem only happens when you either burn a project or save it to an image.
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Living in the UK, I use PAL (25 fps). Wherever you see a reference to PAL (25 fps) in the following you may substitute NTSC (30 fps) in the various settings mentioned (if you don’t live in Europe), the basic idea is the same. I still use this method, and take these steps, regardless of whether it is always necessary. Worst case scenario: it would have worked anyway. Best case scenario: it works perfectly where it otherwise wouldn’t!
The object of the exercise is therefore to ‘fix’ all constituent parts of the project (video, titles, theme, effects, even audio!) in the desired 16:9 aspect to avoid producing a DVD where the movie is in 16:9 and the menu is in 4:3 or where other irritating surprises lurk in your project, which you only discover after burning a coaster!
First go to http://www.mydvdedit.com/index.php?lang=english and download myDVDedit. This is shareware although the download is free. Send the guy a few dollars/euros, he deserves it. While you are there, read all about it. Now install it in your Applications Folder. You will need it later.
You have finished your iMovie project with music, transitions and so on, and saved it to you Movies Folder. Before you started the project you naturally set it to DV Widescreen.
Open iDVD. Give the project a name, and save it as Widescreen if it didn’t default to the same aspect as your iMovie project. Now import the iMovie project into iDVD, choose a theme (any theme you like, even if it prefers to stay at 4:3) and save the project. Do what you would normally do to the theme and its drop zones. Save the project.
Now save as Disk Image on your desktop. Leave it there for the moment when it has finished/appeared.
Open your Movies Folder. Create a new folder. Name it PROJECTNAME – TS FILES (where ‘projectname’ is the name of your project!). Close the folder. You can of course call it anything you like, but this aids identification.
Now double-click the disk image on your desktop. It contains two folders: AUDIO_TS (which is empty, but please pretend that it isn’t) and VIDEO_TS. Drag and drop these to the folder you created in your Movies Folder. (This takes a moment).
Click on the AUDIO_TS folder and go to Get Info in the file menu. Right down the bottom is where you have to change the permissions. Under ‘Ownership & Permissions’ change this from Read Only to Read & Write. Click the small triangle next to Details, scroll down and click on ‘Apply to enclosed items’. You will be asked for your root password. Close the get info window, and now click on the VIDEO_TS folder and do the same. Close the Projectname-TS Files folder. You have now allowed yourself to change the properties of the contents of those folders, which leads us to the next all-important step.
Open myDVDedit. Go to File and open the projectname TS Files folder. By all means stare at it shock and awe, but don’t bother finding out what it can do, except for the following:
Top left you fill see a list of files. Lower centre you have a large window. On the vertical menu to the left of that, click IFO.
In the window at the top left, ignore ‘First Play’ (if there was anything to correct in that, myDVDedit will have done so and told you).
Click on VMG Menu en (English). Now the whole thing springs to life.
Set Coding Mode to MPEG-2 (if it isn’t already)
Set Standard to PAL (or NTSC if that is what you want)
Set Aspect to 16:9 (not any of the other options)
Now save the file.
Click on VTS Menu 1 en (English) and repeat as above.
Click on VTS Menu 2 and repeat as above.
You have now permanently ‘fixed’ the entire contents of the TS folder (the disk image) in 16:9 aspect. Close myDVDedit – you won’t need it again until the next project!
If you have Toast 7 Titanium, open it. ‘Select DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS’. Choose Select from the main Toast window and select your projectname-TS Files folder. You are now ready to burn! You can set the burn speed (2x recommended) before the burn commences. Allow Toast to verify the burn before you eject the DVD-R disk.
If you don’t have Toast 7, then I assume you can burn the projectname-TS Files folder (disk image) via Disk Utility. I say ‘assume’ only because I have never tried it that way.
Either way, you now have a DVD which will play as 16:9 widescreen on any TV set, even the old ones where you can’t ask it to letter-box.

X11 Pipeline: Extreme Thrashing

I have a graphics intensive application that I am working on, and I am getting severe thrashing while running in X. Results are excellent from an e-machine running Windows Vista.
Here's the basic idea of the program. It uses AWT (no Swing is ever referenced). There is a collection of "sprites" which were created from GraphicsDevice.createCompatibleImage() to give them the best chance at acceleration. Then there is a backbuffer, to which the program draws. It attempts to deliver higher framerates by only updating portions of the screen which are changing. Originally, this backbuffer was also created with GraphicsDevice.createCompatibleImage(), however this leads to the thrashing I mentioned earlier.
After reading through:
[Troubleshooting Guide for Java SE 6 Desktop Technologies|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/trouble/TSG-Desktop/html/toc.html]
I managed to isolate the problem to X11 offscreen pixmaps, and running with the flag -Dsun.java2d.pmoffscreen=false removes the thrashing.
The problem I have here is that I am now confused. It seems to me that I want my sprites accelerated, but shouldn't my backbuffer also be accelerated? I'm not using antialiasing, nor alpha compositing, nor translations. I do make heavy use of setting the clip on the graphics object. Is that where my problem resides? Am I confused on the meaning of alpha compositing... does that include 1-bit transparency?
Quote from the above referenced document:
"The use of pixmaps typically results in better performance. However, in certain cases, the opposite is true. Such cases typically involve the use of operations which cannot be performed using the X protocol, such as antialiasing, alpha compositing, and transforms that are more complex than simple translation transforms.
For these operations the X11 pipeline must do the rendering using the built-in software renderer. In most cases this includes reading the contents of the pixmap to a system memory (over the network in the case of remote X server), performing the rendering, and then sending the pixels back to the pixmap. Such operations could result in extremely poor performance, especially if the X server is remote."
Could someone enlighten me here? Why are my accelerated surfaces being copied back into system memory when all I am doing is drawing accelerated surfaces onto accelerated surfaces using drawImage() and setClip().

You're totally right. I was preparing a code example, during which I discovered my mistake.
I'm still curious as to why Swing is causing a problem with off screen pixmaps in X. I've seen this problem before but I was never concerned with rapid updating of the screen so I never investigated. I think it must be Swing's backbuffer causing it, but is this a problem with the Java2D X11 pipeline, or maybe a bug somewhere else in my OS?
Here is a code example which produces the problem, running it with sun.java2d.pmoffscreen=false runs fine, but without it, X begins hogging CPU time and starves Java out resulting in pauses in execution.
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;
class SwingFail implements ActionListener {
private static JFrame frame;
class RefreshPanel extends JPanel {
    public RefreshPanel() {
      setPreferredSize(new Dimension(512, 512));
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
      g.setColor(Color.black);
      g.fillRect(0, 0, 512, 512);
      g.setColor(Color.white);
      g.drawString(new Date().toString(), 25, 250);
public SwingFail() {
    frame = new JFrame("Rapid Refresh");
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    JPanel panel = (JPanel) frame.getContentPane();
    panel.add(new RefreshPanel());
    frame.pack();
    frame.setVisible(true);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    frame.repaint();
public static void main(String[] args) {
    SwingFail sf = new SwingFail();
    javax.swing.Timer t = new javax.swing.Timer(1, sf);
    t.setCoalesce(false);
    t.start();
}PS This is with Java 5, and the underlying OS is in bad need of an update so I wouldn't be surprised if this issue has long since been resolved, but I'd still love to hear from someone else running X11 if this works well or not. Of course hardware performance may be a factor, but the difference in CPU time should still be evident between turning offscreen pixmaps on or off.
Edited by: DecadeOfJava on Jun 19, 2010 6:34 AM

Heap tables and index organized tables

I performing migration from mssql server to oracle 10gr2 rdbms, in mssql all tables have clustered pk, index. Is it necessary to use index organized tables for that migration, or enough ordinal heap organized tables and what differences between those tables, and mssql tables
Thanx

In Oracle, the typical table is a standard 'heap' table. Stuff goes into the heap table randomly, and randomly comes out.
An Index Organizaed Tables is somewhat similar to a Cluster Index in SS. It can have some performance advantages over heap tables - when the heap table has an associated index on the primary key.
The IOT can also have some disadvantages, such as the need for an Overflow table to handle the extra data when a row doesn't conveniently fit in a block (implying multiple I/Os), and an extra translation table if bitmap indexes are required (implying extra I/Os).
An unintelligent developer will generally believe that Oracle and SQL Server are the same - after all they both run SQL - and will attempt to port by a simple translation of syntax.
An intelligent developer will test both styles of tables, during a port. Such a developer will also be quick to learn about the changes in internals (such as locking mechanisms) and will realize that different styles of coding are required for many application situations.
I recommend reading Tom Kyte's books to get handle on pros and cons as well as testing techniques to help a developer become intelligent.

Can a DTD map custom styles to standard HTML tags?

Hi,
Every week the publishing house I work for has to manually copy the entire content of a weekly magazine on an article-by-article basis into an online database, the web version of the magazine. This means copying the styled InDesign content and inserting it into the database as plain text, re-finding all those italics (and any other styling) and putting it all back manually.
I already know that I can create tags with all the basic HTML styles needed in the 'Tags' palette in InDesign, and then export that.
The trouble is that when I re-import the XML file, I have to laboriously map the custom house-styles (there are many of them and they're boiler-plate, i.e. consistent, across all the magazine's InDesign styles) to the imported HTML styles.
So here's my question:
Am I wrong to believe that it's possible to create a DTD that would import not only the HTML tags but their relationship to the existing, custom-named InDesign tags that are common to all the magazine's documents?
As an InDesign wish-feature, what's missing from the 'Tags' corner-menu is 'Export DTD' - if that was available, I could map the whole relationship between Indesign Styles/HTML styles just one time and later import the DTD on other articles; which would tell the Structure View how to convert our custom house-styles (both Paragraph Styles and Character Styles) into HTML tags and cut this time-consuming task in half.
Thanks!
EDIT: I perhaps should have mentioned that obviously the final stage after this 'dream conversion' is to export the XML from the Structure View. Then I can just open the saved XML file and paste it into the CMS with formatting intact.
Added extra explanation of the workflow.

geekbelief wrote:
Googling XSLT and InDesign, it seems that such a stylesheet, if I were to create it, possibly couldn't handle spaces in the original InDesign style-names..? If anyone knows that for a fact, I'd be glad to be aware of it before starting down a long path to a roadblock.
That's a good question. Let's find out together, shall we. I just created a text frame with Lorem Ipsum text, and created "a style" (with space) and "bstyle" (without). Now ... Map Style to Tag doesn't work, presumably because the tags don't exist and I assumed this would *create* them. And if you create one, ID complains "tags cannot contain tabs or spaces". (So can you have a Tab in your paragraph style name then? Gosh.)
... Forcing in a Non-breaking Space (#160) also doesn't work, this time ID simply says "A tag name cannot contain the character ' '."
I think that's one you have to do manually.
geekbelief wrote:
I'm guessing that if I wanted to change the InDesign style 'Subheader' into 'h2', that snippet of the XSLT would be like this...?
<xsl:template match="Subheader"><h2><xsl:apply-templates /></h2></xsl:template>
Yeah, that's the correct syntax. But you cannot use an XSLT for mapping InDesign styles to tags. The process as I described works when importing your XML into InDesign, and changes the tags in the XML file to match InDesign styles. That's the other way around.
I don't expect anyone to write this for me, but any hints or links to tutes that I haven't yet found would be appreciated!
For a simple one-to-one translation of tag names, you can use this all the way. You only need any other XSL command if you want to do more than simple translation, such as filtering, moving, combining, or separating tags or their contents.
There are lots of good tutes on the 'web for XSLT, although it seems interest has diminished lately. Half a decade ago XSLT was "hot"; nowadays the iPad is. Is there any news on improvements for ID's native XSLT support in CS6? I dare bet there are none at all -- it's already been deemed "yesterday's technology" by Adobe's Dev Team, just as Flash was discarded per CS5.5. I'm sure next year DPS will follow; and the year after that EPubs will be gone for good as well, replaced by holograms, transmitted live from your local library.

Project Siena app Publish Issue

Hi all,
I have just started creating Siena App and created simple translator app, its working fine but when I try to publish it using File-->Publish it shows me a warning prompt saying "Download Update require" when I click on "Download" the
another windows appears and says "Error while Downloadin".
Can you please tell me what is the reason behind such an issue. I searched on the net but could not find helpful answer and any post related to its resolution.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks.

What Thor is suggesting is reasonable but it is odd if there is some restriction. The download update required is going to open web site.
I would suggest trying this again and if it continues to fail, you might want to capture a Fiddler trace and we can take a look at it.
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TransformVector in debug/publish version of flash

I have problems with transformVector function when debugging flash. I use simple translation matrix that moves point by 25 on z-axis, everything works fine when I run the flash in browser but in debug mode, transformVector makes vector -20 -20 -20 to -1 -1 -26 instead to -20 -20 -45 as in publish version of the movie. Any idea why debugging the movie mess things up with calculations ? The matrix and imput vector is completelly same in both cases but the computed vector is a mess...
Edit:Looks like transformVector function has different functionality in different versions of flash 10 ... so much for version compatibility ... better to ignore this function ...

There are many people complaining about this in other threads. I found the solution from kglad in this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5750996
You can get Flash CC to publish to version 9 player by putting these two files in these locations:
This file: http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/5510986-147069/Fl ashPlayer9_0.xml
Goes here: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CC\Common\Configuration\Players\FlashPlayer9_0.xml
This file: http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/5510986-147068/pl ayerglobal.swc.zip
Goes here: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CC\Common\Configuration\ActionScript 3.0\FP9\playerglobal.swc
You may need to create the FP9 folder.
Restart flash and you should see Player 9 in your publish options. You'll have to find the AS3 clickTag code.

What Is the Equivalent Code If I Leave Internationalization Out

I have source code for accommodating internationalization using the ResourceBundle. I do not want to use internationlization.
Here is the source code:
static final String OPTION_FILE_NAME = "mvnplugin_mvnforum_MVNForumConfig";
static String MVNFORUM_HOME = "mvnForumHome";
static
   ResourceBundle res = ResourceBundle.getBundle(OPTION_FILE_NAME);
   MVNFORUM_HOME = res.getString("MVNFORUM_HOME").trim();
   setMVNForumHome(MVNFORUM_HOME);
}If I leave out the internationalization part, should my code be:
static String mfh = "mvnForumHome";
static String MVNFORUM_HOME;
static
   MVNFORUM_HOME = mfh.trim();
   setMVNForumHome(MVNFORUM_HOME);
}Then, I do not know what is so essential about
static final String OPTION_FILE_NAME = "mvnplugin_mvnforum_MVNForumConfig";Any consequences if I leave this statement out?

Hi Natalie, maybe you need the isolationalism forum (haha, it's my sick sense of humour, don't worry).
But seriously, I recommend that you follow, JN_'s first recommendation. Make your application able to use resource bundles, but just provide one default bundle. Even if you don't think you need, or are interested in internationalization just now, it is a forward thinking way to build your applications. I don' think it adds much complecity either.
I'm also foolish enough to think that expertise in internationalizaion of software looks good on one's resume...
My recent search for a certain kind of software to use in Japan, came up with a list of about 100 vendors, none of whom were able to provide anything suitable for simple translation to Japanese... lost opportunities all round, sad...

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