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Client Pressures and Code Quality
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SQL Query Result Order
Every time an SQL query is run without the ORDER BY clause, the sort order of the results returned is...
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SQL Logical Query Processing Order
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SQL and Relational Theory
Do you know the foundation of SQL? According to the book Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Training Kit on the...
2013-05-31
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The right terminology for the right audience
For those who has the privilege of being in the technology consulting industry for some time and started out in...
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Address Clean-up for Mail Merge using SSIS
Remember the good ol’ days of going through a list of addresses and manually cleaning up hundreds if not thousands...
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I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
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Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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