Oracle SQL Developer is full of nice feature, damned by a overwhelming options pane, like the one I will describe to you right now.

Even if  Oracle databases (<12) does not support auto increment, you can easily ask to your sql data modeler to generate for you a sequence and a trigger in a automatic way.

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Sometimes in University I found bold young guy saying something like:

I will reimplement this in machine language because is faster

I will reimplement this xyz C function by my own

My program crash, I think there is a bug in HP UNIX socket implementation

I will ge rid of this Java Garbage Collector because it is too slow. I will reimplement all the code in my C++ routine.

 

Belive me: your code is doomed. A full list of guys have already done your same code, found a million bugs and corrected it in the tool you want to replace because they are shitty slow, to your eyes.

I feel your pain because I made your same mistake. Keep reading.

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Oracle SQL Developer is full of nice feature, damned by a overwhelming options pane, like the one I will describe to you right now.

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Pandoc is an universal document converter to convert Markdown, Org-Mode, Html, Word documents from one markup format into another  After using different tools, (including GNU info and SGML). I find out pandoc vert handy.

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The BBC Micro bit an ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. The device has been given away free [...] [to every 11 years old pupil] in the UK, and is also available for purchase by anyone.

This is the wikipedia definition.

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