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Many years ago, I started at a smaller-sized company. About 150 employees; it was a SaaS company that provided survey software. It was growing quickly, and I was the primary DBA. I was hired not only to be a DBA, but to build a DB team to handle many of the issues the company faced […]
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DML Trigger Types
How many types of DML triggers are there?
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