Partial fix for #495

Add JdbcPreparedStatement.executeLargeUpdate() with implementation delegating to old internal method

Fix for issue #311

Better getObject error message

SecureRandom is already synchronized

Return properly encoded UUID from SimpleResultSet.getBytes()

When an unsupported type is passed to getObject(int|String, Class) the
error message always says that "java.lang.Class" is unsupported instead
of the actual type.

TestFunctions less english dependent

Fix for issue #644: Year changing from negative -509 to a positive 510

SIGNAL function

added Javascript support for Triggers' source

Issue #694: Support for Oracle style parenthesised column modification:

ALTER TABLE foo MODIFY (bar VARCHAR2(255) NOT NULL)

Ensured that an index is used for ordering, even if NULLS FIRST is sp…

Ensured that an index is used for ordering, even if NULLS FIRST is specified for an ASCENDING sort order. Issue #699.

Fix classpath loading issue #697