2015-01-23 (first published: 2013-10-08)
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Sioban Krzywicki
Find the Currently Running Scheduled Job
Ever need to automatically stop a long running job? Ever need to find which named Schedule is the currently running version of your job? There's simple code that'll let you find out.
2013-04-25
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Tally Table Uses - Part II
In part II of this series, Sioban Krzywicki shows us another way Tally Tables have helped solve problems - Text Parsing.
2010-08-03
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Tally Table Uses - Part I
In the first part of a series on Tally Tables, Sioban Krzywicki shows how a Tally Table has helped out with fiscal year calculations.
2010-08-02
16,486 reads
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