Steve WynKoop and I talk a lot about designing and managing our professional careers on a weekly interview on SSWUG.org. This episode was about how to handle interviews when you have a large employment gap in your resume. This article goes into more detail.
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Borrowing from Science to Revolutionize Business Analytics
(Chris Young) Research engineers at Intel and IBM have a long history of working together to offer industry-leading technologies—many of them designed for the fastest computers on the planet, like the supercomputing clusters used for astrophysics or oil and gas exploration.
MySQL Like Operator in PHP
(Vinod Kumar) In this article I will explain the MySQL “Like” operator in PHP. The MySQL Like operator is based on pattern matching and commonly used to select data based on pattern matching.
DB2 Basics: Triggers
(Ember Crooks) As with the other entries in my DB2 Basics series, this entry does not cover everything about triggers. Instead, I’m covering the basics and a few important points.
A Look at SQL Plan Management
(Eric Jenkinson) All of us have experienced times when the runtime of a regularly executed report or query changes and not always for the better, inexplicably. The impact of these runtime changes can range from a simple annoyance to something that may severely impact business-critical operations.
Solving SQL VSS writer problems during backup
(Brien Posey) What are the most common SQL VSS writer issues users encounter when backing up SQL databases with VSS-based backup software?
The Oracle Database Auditing Options
(David Fitzjarrell) I don’t know what auditing requirements may be in place in other parts of the world, but here in the U.S. we have the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (resulting from the Enron debacle from a few years back) which basically calls for audit trails for all financial activity in an organization,
SQL SERVER – Pass One Stored Procedure’s Result as Another Stored Procedure’s Parameter
(Pinal Dave) This is one of the most asked questions in recent time and the answer is even simpler.
How do I use a variable in an IN clause?
(Kenneth Fisher) I see this question in one form or another a lot. I’ve seen this or something like it probably half a dozen times in the last couple of weeks on the forums I read. To the point where it even showed up in a dream the other night (I know, weird hu?). Just to be clear I’m talking […]
The DOM
HTML is an XML-like structure in that the elements form a structure of parents’ nodes with children, like the branches of a tree. There is one root element (html) with branches like head and body, each with their own branches. For this reason, the DOM is also called the DOM tree.