.. and everybody just needs to lift the finger to turn the wheel that little bit to prevent hitting the wall.

So with the emminent release of MSIE 7 and FF2 I decided it was high time I actually check the main project I am currently working on for compliance. Its an ajax intranet application that has a little bit of layout and convinience magic. Step one is to become able to test these new versions without breaking my current setup.

Ok, someone came in #oracle on freenode and wanted a query that would give him a distinct set of rows, where it did not matter if a values is in the first or second column.

I am currently in Zurich, after spending the last week in a farmers house in the moutains of Switzerland. This is a pretty relaxing time for me, although I am constantly working on tweaking my thesis paper (actually its not a thesis paper, its a german "Diplomarbeit"). I am more or less done and now I am just working on getting the kinks and typos out.

Lorenzo has startet working on better charset support in MDB2. He has added basic support for setting charsets and collations inside field definitions in CVS already. However, there are still plenty of open questions to look at. I have only limited experience with charsets in MySQL. Lorenzo has some experience with Firebird and PostgreSQL. But this is no where near sufficient to come up with a solution that would work reasonably well across all supported drivers. Check out his charset RFC on his blog. Comments are very much appreciated, even if they just highlight problems without giving a solution just yet.