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• Recommended SQL Books

  Every professional programmer (and DBA) should have a good book (or four) on SQL. There are many to choose from, and a lot of them are very good. The first SQL book I recommend is SQL Performance Tuning by Peter Gulutzan and Trudy Pelzer. It provides Read More... Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 2:06 PM by cmullins | 2 Comments Filed under: SQL, queries, books

• Bad Standards #3 - Table Limits for Online Joins

  Tonight's entry continues our on-going series on "bad" database standards. And the "bad" standard we'll discuss tonight is a particularly nasty one. Although the general idea behind this standard might seem to be understandable, Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:31 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: DBA, standards, SQL, queries