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Caught an elbow reaching in trying to poke a rebound away:

Gabe did the honors of plucking our first garden vegetable today. We chopped up the banana pepper, it was full of fresh-from-the-garden goodness:

PROBLEM: Identify records where there is non-numeric values for a particular column. SOLUTION: select SOME_COL from SOME_TBL where regexp_like (SOME_COL,’^[^[:digit:]]’) ; Obviously this implies that maybe the field should be a NUMBER datatype to start with, but sometimes what we want, what we should have, and what we actually have are not the same thing.

Our little raised bed garden experiment is moving along nicely. The tomato plants have grown up enough to warrant some bamboo trellis support: The cell phone picture doesn’t show a lot of detail, but the tomatoes are down the middle, and that is basil up front right and the tall stuff flowering in the back [...]