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Editorials Phil Factor in Editorials Xerox stars for accessibility I was working for Xerox when the Xerox Star, precursor to all the computer systems in use today, was introduced.... 08 May 2023 3 min read
MySQL Robert Sheldon in MySQL Importing data into a MySQL database using LOAD DATA Database and development teams often load data from plain text files into their MySQL databases. The files might be used... 04 May 2023 24 min read
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T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming One use case for NOT using schema prefixes I’ve long been a huge advocate for always referencing objects with a schema prefix in SQL Server.… 20 April 2023 6 min read
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Web Aneesh Lal Gopalakrishnan in Web How to secure legacy ASP.NET MVC against Cross-Site (CSRF) Attacks Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks are widespread, and even some BigTech companies suffer from them. Netflix suffered in 2006 with... 12 April 2023 9 min read
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T-SQL Programming Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Ordered Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2022 One of the more challenging technical details of columnstore indexes that regularly gets attention is the need for data to... 07 April 2023 17 min read
MySQL Robert Sheldon in MySQL Modifying MySQL data from within Python In the previous article in this series, I introduced you to how to access MySQL data from within a Python... 03 April 2023 21 min read
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