Do I have 32 or 64 bit Java Installed?

Hopefully by now you’re familiar with…

java -version

… to determine what version of Java you have installed, but sometimes you may want to know if you’re running a 32 bit or 64 bit version because you get an error like this…

Can't load AMD 64-bit .dll on a IA 32-bit platform

… to find out just run this variation of the command…

java -d64 -version

… if you have a 64 bit version you’ll get typical output. If not, you’ll get an error similar to this…

This Java instance does not support a 64-bit JVM.
Please install the desired version.
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DB2 Recursive Query

If you’ve ever had to do a recursive query in DB2 to get a hierarchy of records, feel free to use this as a starting point…

WITH LINKS (PARENT_ID, CHILD_ID, UPDATED_TS) AS 
    ( 
    SELECT  ROOT.PARENT_ID, ROOT.CHILD_ID, ROOT.UPDATED_TS 
    FROM    XX.EVENTS ROOT 
    WHERE   ROOT.CHILD_ID = '234ASDFASDF' 
        UNION ALL 
    SELECT  CHILD.PARENT_ID, CHILD.CHILD_ID, CHILD.UPDATED_TS 
    FROM    LINKS PARENT, XX.EVENTS CHILD 
    WHERE   PARENT.PARENT_ID = CHILD.CHILD_ID 
    ) 
SELECT  PARENT_ID, CHILD_ID, UPDATED_TS 
FROM    LINKS 
ORDER BY UPDATED_TS 
FOR READ ONLY WITH UR

… yes, newer versions of DB2 have this ability built in but you’re not always using the most recent version are you??

Thanks to this page for pointing me in the right direction.

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Remove Duplicate Lines in Notepad++

If you’ve ever had the need to remove the duplicate lines from a long list of entries like so…

hi
bye
hi
guy
bye
hi

… and are looking for this…

hi
bye
guy

You can use the find/replace feature in Notepad++ to do it if you use the regex funcationality. Here’s the find string…

^(.*?)$\s+?^(?=.*^\1$)

Just replace with a zero length string.

If you’d like to read up on the details I found this tip here

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