Xaprb

http://www.xaprb.com/blog Technorati Authority: 464 Xaprb is a blog about software engineering. I focus a lot on SQL and tools I've written for monitoring and managing MySQL. I also review books, explore programming techniques, and share what I learn about the World Wide Web.

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1. A simple way to make birthday queries easier and faster

   It’s New Year’s Eve, a date that should strike terror into the hearts of many, because tomorrow a bunch of their queries are going to fail. Queries to “find all birthdays in the next week” and similar are always a nightmare to write. If you want to see a ...

   7 hours ago

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