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A look at what's going on behind the scenes when you perform a "join" in MySQL. John Paul Ashenfelter uses the cross join as an example of how joins work in general.
March 20,
2008
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The exploration into JOIN statements continues with a look at INNER JOIN, the most commonly used SQL join.
March 17,
2008
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This week, John Paul Ashenfelter looks at the "self-join," a tool that is particularly useful in certain situations, such as when you have a normalized database table that needs to be flattened.
March 14,
2008
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Subqueries are extremely useful in web-based database applications where you need to combine two queries and manually put them together to achieve a desired result. Subqueries allow SQL to do all of the heavy lifting!
March 12,
2008
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Because SQL is based on relational algebra, it should come as no surprise that the standard contains several set-oriented operators. In that spirit, it's time we take a look at the UNION operator.
March 11,
2008
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GUI-based database management tools are great, but it's also important to understand the broad strokes of directly manipulating database structure. In this week's aboutSQL, John Paul Ashenfelter describes how to use SQL to define the database, its component tables, and other artifacts.
March 7,
2008
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Most database products support ANSI-SQL for manipulating data, but there is far more variance in the details of how DDL is implemented. John Paul Ashenfelter discusses data types for different SQL platforms.
March 5,
2008
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Noel Davis looks at a problem with Perl's safe mode; some serious vulnerabilities in MySQL; buffer overflows in wget, tcpdump, Canna, and GTetrinet; and problems in lynx, mICQ, Sun Cobalt RaQ 4 Server Appliances, xdvi, dvips, and Exim.
February 22,
2008
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Your database-backed application is too slow. Panic, upgrade, or rewrite? Steven Hauser suggests a more thoughtful approach: step back and consider the whole system. Then, do the simplest thing with the greatest potential payoff. Hauser explains how to make the most of tuning opportunities.
February 5,
2008
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HTTP is stateless. If you've ever written a web application where user data matters, you know that managing that data can be troublesome. There are two kinds of data, though: page and session data. Understanding the differences can help you develop better and more easily. Brian Fioca explains.
January 17,
2008
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