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Book review: The Pragmatic Programmer
posted on 21 March 2009 (01:41 AM)
David, my fellow nerd at Grrr, whom I highly respect as a programmer, recommended The Pragmatic Programmer as a bible for developers.
So what could I do but pick it up and give it a read?
Eliminate articles when ordering in MySQL
posted on 08 March 2009 (10:06 PM)
When generating alphabetically ordered resultsets from your tables, it may be useful to eliminate articles (the and a in the English language).
The following is a simple method of doing this.