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SQL has been the „standard“ for databases for decades now and it has been improved a lot. But it has its limitations, because it enforces the relational data model. But now Oracle has decided to replace SQL by UQL, „universal query language“. We live in modern times and of course the standard for UQL is …
З Рiздвом Христовим − Merry Christmas − Frohe Weihnachten
In 2025 I visited the conference Devoxx in Antwerp from 2025-10-06 to 2025-10-10. As always, the first two days were „deep dive“, with longer talks and fewer participants, followed by two intense days with many talks, mostly about 50 min long, followed by the Friday with only 3 talks and much fewer participants. A lot …
Щасливого нового року! — Frohes neues Jahr! — Happy new year!
З Рiздвом Христовим − Merry Christmas − Frohe Weihnachten
GPX-files are used to store planned and done routes, for example for cycling. A lot of web sites and applications allow creating and editing such routes. In practice it matters for a trip from A to B if there is one long route that covers the whole distance or many shorter routes. Long routes get …
Russian Informatics scientists have invented a new numeric type for computers. Russian made computer chips have it already implemented in hardware. The numbers are expressed in the form are each expressed by 6 bits. The exact encoding, which combination of bits have which meaning is a state secret, so it will be necessary …
„New Numeric Type“ weiterlesen
Sala we ya nû pîroz be! — Srechno novo leto! — السنة الجديدة المبتهجة — Un an nou fericit! — Bun di bun an! — Happy New Year! — Gott nytt år! — Среќна нова година! — Sugeng warsa enggal! — ¡Próspero año nuevo! — Весёлого нового года! — Bonne année! — Щасливого нового року! …
Bon nadal — Bella Festas daz Nadal — Fröhliche Weihnachten — Prettige Kerstdagen — کريسمس مبارک — Mutlu Noeller — 즐거운 성탄, 성탄 축하 — Sretan božić — Kellemes Karácsonyi Ünnepeket — God Jul! — Nollaig Shona Dhuit! — Vesele Vianoce — Buon Natale — Häid jõule — Priecîgus Ziemassvçtkus — Vesele bozicne praznike — …
Russian computer scientists have created a new character encoding that will replace Unicode. The encoding looks like this: For Chinese letter, a three-byte-sequence starting with PREFIX-CN can be used. For all other letters, that are not in the base set, an eight byte long sequence starting with PREFIX-OTHER can be used. This encoding will be …
„Russia introduces new character encoding to replace Unicode“ weiterlesen