Comments on: One Billion Errors http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2009/04/10/one-billion-errors/ The technology blog of Neil Thompson Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:14:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Neil Thompson http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2009/04/10/one-billion-errors/comment-page-1/#comment-1058 Neil Thompson Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:54:51 +0000 http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2009/04/10/one-billion-errors/#comment-1058 You are right but seems to have been fixed now - perhaps as a result of reading this blog?! You are right but seems to have been fixed now – perhaps as a result of reading this blog?!

]]> By: Steve Conlan http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2009/04/10/one-billion-errors/comment-page-1/#comment-1039 Steve Conlan Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:57:08 +0000 http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2009/04/10/one-billion-errors/#comment-1039 Just to note, it does work if you crop your own postcode to 5 characters. Now get submitting those 25 entries a day. Just to note, it does work if you crop your own postcode to 5 characters. Now get submitting those 25 entries a day.

]]> By: Steve Conlan http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2009/04/10/one-billion-errors/comment-page-1/#comment-1038 Steve Conlan Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:55:42 +0000 http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2009/04/10/one-billion-errors/#comment-1038 Ahhh..digging deeper... ORA-12899: value too large for column "JINGLE"."MZ_BILLION_APP_ENTRY"."ZIP" (actual: 7, maximum: 5) They've coded the ZipCode for maximum of 5 characters. Great coding there Apple ;) Don't know about other countries, but UK is 7 characters. Ahhh..digging deeper…

ORA-12899: value too large for column “JINGLE”.”MZ_BILLION_APP_ENTRY”.”ZIP” (actual: 7, maximum: 5)

They’ve coded the ZipCode for maximum of 5 characters. Great coding there Apple ;)

Don’t know about other countries, but UK is 7 characters.

]]> By: Steve Conlan http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2009/04/10/one-billion-errors/comment-page-1/#comment-1037 Steve Conlan Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:50:38 +0000 http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/2009/04/10/one-billion-errors/#comment-1037 Must...resist...thinking....its....conspiracy.... Heh, of course Apple wouldn't be putting this little bug in there on purpose to force people to download from their appstore? They wouldn't do that would they....would they? Must…resist…thinking….its….conspiracy….

Heh, of course Apple wouldn’t be putting this little bug in there on purpose to force people to download from their appstore? They wouldn’t do that would they….would they?

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