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		<title>Turning off the admin bar in WordPress&#160;3.1</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/10/25/turning-off-the-admin-bar-in-wordpress-3-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work on WordPress 3.1 is in full swing at the moment though I initially though that they were taking a little break after 3.0. From what I can see, many refinements are being made to the multi-blog functionality and behind-the-scenes work is ongoing on the administration screens too. Another under-the-bonnet change has been to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a name, *.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the classic SAS errors that you can get from PROC SQL and it can be thrown by a number of things. Missing out a comma in a list of variables on a SELECT statement is one situation that will do it, as will having an extraneous one. As I discovered recently, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ERROR: Invalid value for width specified &#8211; width out of range</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/06/08/error-invalid-value-for-width-specified-width-out-of-range/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This could be the beginning of a series on error messages from PROC SQL that may appear unclear to a programmer more familiar with Data Step. The cause of my getting the message that heads this posting is that there was a numeric variable with a length less that the default of 8, not the best of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-hosted web analytics tracking</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/04/24/self-hosted-web-analytics-tracking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It amazes me now to think how little tracking I used to do on my various web &#8220;experiments&#8221; only a few short years ago. However, there was a time when a mere web counter, perhaps displayed on web pages themselves, was enough to yield some level of satisfaction, or dissatisfaction in many a case. Things [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit that I have never been a great fan of JavaScript. For one thing, its need to interact with browser objects places you at the mercy of the purveyors of such pieces of software. Debugging is another fine art that can seem opaque to the the uninitiated since the amount and quality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAS9 SQL Constraints</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With SAS 9, SAS Institute have introduced the sort sort of integrity constraints that have been bread and butter for relational database SQL programs but some SAS programmers may find them more restrictive than they might like. The main one that comes to my mind is the following: proc sql noprint; create table a as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Developer Java error</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2007/06/06/sql-developer-java-error/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I tried starting up Oracle&#8217;s SQL Developer last night so that I could add a listing if my hillwalking blog posts to my website&#8217;s site map with a spot of PHP scripting. However, all that I got was something like that which you see below: I must confess that this one threw me. The solution, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the number of observations in SAS dataset</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2007/05/16/number-of-observations-in-sas-dataset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 11:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of ways of finding out the number of observations in a SAS data set and, while they are documented in a number of different places, I have decided to collect them together in one place. At the very least, it means that I can find them again. First up is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updating Oracle data tables that have associated sequence objects</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2007/05/03/updating-oracle-data-tables-that-have-associated-sequence-objects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 11:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something that I want to put somewhere for future reference before I forget it: keep sequences associated with Oracle data tables up to date while adding records. Given that it took me a while to find it, it might come in useful for someone else too. The first thing is to update the sequence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quoted strings in Oracle SQL</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2007/05/02/quoted-strings-in-oracle-sql/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 12:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a gotcha that caught up with me on my journey into the world of Oracle SQL: string quoting. Anything enclosed in double-quotes (&#34;) is the name of an Oracle object (variable, table and so on) while values are enclosed in single quotes (&#8216;). The reason that this one caught me out is that I [...]]]></description>
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