Author: Jan Jansen

For a reporting application demanding numeric accuracy we needed a functionality for rounding (positive) numbers given in string representation while controlling their number of significant digits. I found the …

With the regular expression functionality in Orcale database 10g some handy build-ins of the UNIX pattern matching language AWK are easily implemented. I myself use AWK split() function quite often in AWK …

The standard PL/SQL package dbms_random only allows for drawing uniformly distributed (all numbers equally likely) random numbers. As far as I know, other discrete probability distributions have to be …