Re: Query with hexadecimal characters

James M Doherty PGADMIN wrote:
> I am not sure you are aware but COBOL will cause
> brain damage if used for an extended period of time
>

Yep that is where all the Y2K stuff came from. People
had been using Cobol for too long to actually program
correctly ;)

Don't even get me started on all the damage Java is doing
to once young, inspired and productive programmers.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> Jim
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Merlin Moncure"
> <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>
> To: "Luciano" <ldelio(at)yahoo(dot)com>
> Cc: <pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] Query with hexadecimal characters
>
>> Eric and Tom: thank you very much for your help, I
>> will try your suggestions tomorrow at work.
>> The sql statements are issued from a COBOL program,
>> which can also issue the same statements to other
>> databases (MySQL, MS SQLServer), so the first thing Im
>> going to do is trying to change the encoding setup,
>> which would be the most homogeneous solution that
>> wouldn't interfere with the other databases, that
>> currently handle well those strings with hexadecimal
>> data.
>>
>> Thank u very much again!
>> Luciano.
>
>
> Just curious: what COBOL vendor/compiler are you using?
>
> Merlin
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