This is the second and final part for my Pinger utility. The most recent up to date code is on my GitHub account. This post is about configuring
Casting Char to Timestamp and Date in Teradata
Casting character data to timestamp or date data type is a common task during ETL development. Yet, I couldn’t learn the formatting characters by
Listing all tables in a database and their PERM space consumption
Listing table sizes in Teradata is done by querying the all AllSpace view in the DBC database: [crayon-5def6ba58bff5331286715/] 'All' represents an
Java Pinger, part I
I needed some hard evidence for my ISP that every now and then short-time disruptions occur. These disruptions started being bloody annoying me as my
Our team’s transition from emails to Slack
We're used to communicating instantly in 2016. Some of us prefer Facebook messenger over WhatsApp, some communicate on Skype, iMessage or Hangouts. On
Reverse string search in Teradata
I needed to perform a reverse string search to find the last occurence of a slash. It took me a while before I found a simple and elegant solution