Week of Surprises

last thursday, we attended the church choir practice. we are preparing for the advent carols. we sang all the songs with much gusto. after the practice, the director asked some of the members to stay. when the other members left she told us that she will be moving on and look for other opportunities. we were all surprise. with all the preparations, the coming holidays and the good things happening in church this is the last thing you would expect to happen. we wished her the best and thanked her for her leadership and the music.
walking out the church, we spoke to some of the members. we reassured each other that we will continue to serve our parish. we would pray that our parish priest will be guided by the holy spirit in choosing the right person for the job.

New Office Location

Monroe office

I got to the office around 9 am. The boxes were already in my new cube. It took me 45 minutes to unpack all my boxes. I worked on a work order that needed to update a field on an oracle table.

Here are the steps I did to accomplish the job.

1. imported the text file which was delimited by ‘|’ to a spreadsheet.
2. imported the spreadsheet to access database
3. exported the access table to an oracle table using odbc
4. created a pl/sql program to update the target table using the new table.

pl/sql program:

declare
v_adean char(13);
v_addc char(1);
v_adcsl number(5,2);
cursor adcsl_cur is select adean,addc,to_number(adcsl) from aditemf_adcsl;

begin
open adcsl_cur;
loop
fetch adcsl_cur into v_adean,v_addc,v_adcsl;
EXIT WHEN adcsl_cur%NOTFOUND;
update aditemf set adcsl = v_adcsl
where adean = v_adean and addc = v_addc;
commit;
end loop
commit;
close adcsl_cur;
end;

The whole process took 30 minutes.

ideas and singing....

got up this morning with lots of ideas and plans. i need to focus on how to accomplish all these things. it started yesterday when i read the transcript of sir richard branson's interview with jane pauley. it got my entrepreneurial juice flowing again. first i need to get a new computer and install all the softwares i need for my trade.
we went to church choir practice this evening. a good number of people attended. we learned a new and beautiful piece by david haas "carol of the child". we are preparing for the advent carols this coming december.
more on ideas and singing later......