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Optimizing SQL Queries for Performance
30 Mar 2007, 05:14:00 PM
During VSLive! 2007 in San Francisco I attended "The Need for Speed" - a very useful track presented by Robert Patton. He talked about optimizing SQL Queries for performance. Here are some DO and DONT'S from his presentation. Some of the ...
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Small Victory in The War Against Spam
19 Mar 2007, 02:10:00 PM
Today I came across a very interesting article in Ney York Times, which has a link to a research paper, describing plumbing of the search engine spammers.   Quote from the article: Tens of thousands of junk Web pages, created only to lure s ...
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Vista Backup error 0x80071A91 and/or failed Windows Updates
15 Mar 2007, 03:30:00 PM
Recently I was very frustrated installing Vista on my home machine. It’s not that something wrong with Vista, it was drivers that drove me crazy. Problems I had were caused by the fact that nVidia failed to provide working drivers for RAID 0+1 arr ...
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