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Controls' names Select1 and Select2 are another horror.
Greetings - Jacek
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<select id="Select4"><option>Bad Idea></option></select>
<select id="Select2"><option>Bad idea></option></select>
<select id="Select7"><option>bad Idea></option></select>
<select id="Select5"><option>bad idea></option></select>
<select id="Select1"><option>BadIdea></option></select>
<select id="Select6"><option>badIdea></option></select>
<select id="Select3"><option>Bad_Idea></option></select>
<select id="Select8"><option>bad_idea></option></select>
Honestly Illustrated
<Pretentious> Raid tha manyuhl. :E
<Pretentious> Aw raid eh own mah meaxbile. :E
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Or, simpler:
function GoPage(accion)
{
window.location.href =
'resultadointerfaz.asp?vyear=' +
document.getElementById('Select2').value +
'&vmes=' +
document.getElementById('Select1').value +
'&tipo=' +
document.getElementById('tipo').value +
'&consultar=' +
(accion == 'G' ? 'G' : 'C');
}
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I wanted to use the ternary operator there, too; then I thought of the future case of adding a third "accion" and decided to leave an obvious ability to add an "else if" condition at the top.
Honestly Illustrated
<Pretentious> Raid tha manyuhl. :E
<Pretentious> Aw raid eh own mah meaxbile. :E
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We all like Oracle, don't we:
CREATE TRIGGER "LOGIN_ID_TRG" BEFORE INSERT ON "LOGIN" REFERENCING OLD AS OLD NEW AS NEW FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
v_newVal NUMBER(12) := 0;
v_incval NUMBER(12) := 0;
BEGIN
IF INSERTING AND :new.ID IS NULL THEN
SELECT Login_ID_SEQ.NEXTVAL INTO v_newVal FROM DUAL;
IF v_newVal = 1 THEN
SELECT NVL(max(ID),0) INTO v_newVal FROM Login;
v_newVal := v_newVal + 1;
LOOP
EXIT WHEN v_incval>=v_newVal;
SELECT Login_ID_SEQ.nextval INTO v_incval FROM dual;
END LOOP;
END IF;
:new.ID := v_newVal;
END IF;
END;
/
Does that gem do what it is expected to do?
Hm, the first row inserted into the (empty) table gets the ID 1 (and is inserted into the table with ID 1), but Login_ID_SEQ.curr_val is already 2, and consequently the C# application communicating with that Oracle db received a wrong value (it calls SELECT Login_ID_SEQ.CURRVAL FROM DUAL in order to get the last insert id). By the way, the second row inserted receives ID 3.
For the first value inserted into an empty table, the LOOP is executed once, and thus Login_ID_SEQ.nextval twice. Setting the start value of v_incval to 1 did the trick. But I fear the trigger will fail if some when a row would be inserted with an ID different from null (fortunately, we had not activated the IdentityInsert property in our SQL Server database, and hence I am confident that our application won't do that).
How did I find that gem? I used an Oracle tool to convert my SQL Server database. Then I wrote a script to set up all the tables, sequences, triggers, and some start values for my "schema" using the "Show SQL" feature of Oracle Enterprise Manager for each of these objects. Then I tested that with a fresh schema, and my application threw an error with the first login attempt. Thanks a lot, Oracle!
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Something I try to avoid whenever I'm writing a trigger is to not perform a select on the table that the trigger is being created for. That is usually a recipe for disaster. I understand the need for the trigger to use a SEQUENCE in order to set the value of :new.ID. But I don't understand the need to query the existing table to validate the value. That can all be done using CONSTRAINTS and other database constructs. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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As another poster has pointed out, this is a conversion tool. It is assuming that there will be data in the table already before this trigger is invoked, but the value of the sequence may not be correctly set to match the existing data. So, it tries to automatically adjust the sequence to keep it in line with any pre-existing values in the table, which is why it queries the table.
Unfortunately, it does not consider the edge case of an empty table.
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Maybe Oracle is not such known here, so let me give you some more explanations.
With SQL Server or MS Access, we often use "automatic IDs", that is an integer with the "Identity" property (SQL Server) set to true or the "New Values" property set to "increment". When you then insert a row, you do not care for the identifier in the table, the database generates that automatically, and from a program you can query it with SELECT @@IDENTITY.
Oracle cannot do that. You need a NUMBER column, then a "sequence" which will feed the new numbers, and a trigger for the INSERT event, which will call the sequence's NEXTVAL (next new number) and put that into the new row's ID column. From a program, you can query that value with SELECT MYSEQUENCE.CURRVAL FROM DUAL.
The above trigger was automatically generated by Oracle for the migration of an SQL Server database. When you do a migration, (most) tables do already contain some rows, and hence the trigger must be adjusted to the existing values. That's is to be accomplished by the "IF v_newVal = 1 THEN" section.
And that section's code is terrible, and - as proofed above - wrong when the table was still empty. Not only do they call the sequence's NEXTVAL as often as the maximum ID value of the table, in case of a previously empty table the ID value is set to 1 while the sequence's CURRVAL is already 2.
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Thanks for that explanation, cause at first I thought that selecting a max value from a table to get
a new id is a coding horror itself. But your statement explains nearly everything.
(I had to use an Oracle-DB only one time and it was a "bittersweet" experience.)
Greetings
Covean
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Once back in the early 90s when internet connections were not so common. I was working on some general exception trapping in an application written in C, to test it I added something like this to startup code of the application
int* ptrDummy = NULL;
if (*ptrDummy == 0)
Having finished that I checked it in to the main product code which got build into a special release for a customer who had had some problems with the software. An engineer was sent from our office in the uk to the customer in the South of France with the software on a CD. The engineer then installed it on the customers system, ran it up in frount of the customer only to discover that it crashed on startup. Sorry engineer.
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That's why you should always surround this type of test code with a safety that requires some sort of deliberate configuration change to trigger. I wish I could have learned this before I managed to release an installer with test diagnostic dialogs embedded in it. While our QA team was never able to reproduce the steps needed to trigger things, the customers sure could. 
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rentzk wrote: the customers sure could
They are relatives of Murphy[^].
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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hmmm.... Murphy's in-Laws...
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On the Plus side this was easy for me to fix.
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Shouldn't you be telling this to a priest in a confessional booth?
Steve Wellens
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Perhaps you've hit upon an idea for a new message board 'Coding Confession Box'
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In most cases when see code that can catch an access violation your looking at a coding horror.
Steve
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Actual the code for catching the access violations was pretty good, It logged a snap shot of the callstack to a file, then using witchcraft .map and .code files you could find and fix the problem back at base without having to reproduce the problem.
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I had written some code many years ago (VAX Basic I think) and had asked a student programmer to tidy it up and annotate it. He came back a few hours later and said he was finished. I took a look and he had rearranged all the lines of code in alphabetical order ....
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Ouch!
That sounds worse than dropping a old box of punch cards ...
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Look at the bright side.
Now you have an alphabeticaly ordered list of bugs.
I bug
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If they had line numbers, that might not be so bad.
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If I wanted to mess with my teacher that would be the way to do it...but I personally drew ASCII art with my source to mess with them 
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Did he sort it by hand or fed the code to some elegant sorting algorithm he invented
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Are you kidding?  He probably didn't know the meaning of the word invented and certainly didn't know what an algorithm was.
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