What is Ingress? It’s a game. A huge MMO that is played world wide. It’s played outside, in the real world, using any mobile device. It’s using google maps to show a real world view. Ingress is an Augmented Reality Game (ARG) where you have to go to certain locations and hack portals. There are

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RPG EXAMPLE to read NUMERIC from ALPHAMERIC AKA: how to select only the number from an address in a field, or file data A little while ago, I wanted to extract out the numerics from a string of data: For example (a) if I feed in a phone number like “(540)-123 – 1234” but I just

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STRSQL is not the only way to use SQL! SQL is a story in two parts — (1) IBM SQL is an interface to the data and (2) runtime SQL is part of the base operating system. IBM I Administrators often want to limit what SQL statements a user is allowed to run because how

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