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The Search Path Less Traveled

(Michelle A. Poolet) You’ve been using keywords to help you locate data since you were a kid. Maybe you used a card catalogue the first time you went to your local library, or maybe the nuances of online search engines taught the youthful you about keywords. However you learned about them, you proba

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Parlez-Vous BI?

(Robert Catterall) Does this scenario sound familiar? You’re a DB2 DBA with years of experience managing operational database systems. You’re in a meeting in which some business intelligence (BI) experts – your colleagues or consultants – are discussing various aspects of a new DB2-based decision-su

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SQL Server Views

(Scott) In SQL Server a view represents a virtual table. Just like a real table, a view consists of rows with columns, and you can retrieve data from a view (sometimes even update data in a view). The fields in the view’s virtual table are the fields of one or more real tables in the database. You c