Howdy:
Silly question time -
Is there a way to get the date and change
it into a binary number?
To explain:
One of my colleague suggested that we could start
doing our backups / dump of the database via the
'Tower of Hanoi' algorithm.
The algorithm to select backup number would be the
smallest non-zero place in binary representation of
the backup number (tape).
My thinking is that I could try to figure out a case
statement to get the backup date and from there get
a binary number (an anchor date from the beginning
of the year) unique to that backup dataset (or, tape).
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
-X
