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MySQL WHERE Clause Equality Comparison Operator

We don’t always need all rows from the table as part of the final results set. You can use one (or more) of the comparison operators to filter the rows with a WHERE clause conditional. In this post, we are looking at the equality comparison operator (=)…

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MySQL Count Weekday occurrences

Each SQL dialect is different in some way, shape, form, or fashion from the next flavor. Some dialects have this function, while others have that function. In this post, I cover porting over Oracle SQL to MySQL in order to count the number of occurrences of a specific weekday found in the current given month (at the time of writing) purely as a learning exercise focused on MySQL DATE functions and the WITH clause…

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TRIM() string function in MySQL – with examples.

In this post, I’ll cover examples of the MySQL TRIM() function. TRIM() removes specific characters – or spaces – from a given string, at either: the beginning, ending, or potentially in both locations depending on several factors. With an optional keyword argument that controls which character(s) – if any – are removed, TRIM() can be tricky so let’s gain understanding with several easy-to-digest examples…

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COLLABORATE Social Media Hour – Tue 4/24 1-2p Exhibit Hall (IOUG Booth)

At Collaborate, and on the Web, come on and join us and F2F with the tech-saavy! COLLABORATE Social Media Hour  Tues, 4/24, 1–2 pm Exhibit Hall-IOUG Booth There’s no 140 character limit for this meet up! Stop by the IOUG … Continue reading →

Whatever Happened to "Do No Evil?"

 

A buddy of mine, Doug Marks, recently opened my eyes to some sites that are putting out misleading product reviews fueled by Google Ad Words.  I wrote about this on my InfoWorld blog with a story entitled "FTC and Google need to crack down on scam review sites" which provides a counterpoint to the concerns on the US FTC's blogger disclosure rules that become effective …

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Could Google be stymied by a lack of openness?

It seems almost churlish to wonder whether Google could be even more successful than it already is with a different strategy, but the company’s approach to open source and open development has come into focus in recent weeks.

On last week’s podcast we discussed whether the company should see the AGPL as more of an opportunity than a threat following Jay’s post about the company releasing more code under open source licenses.

Nik Cubrilovic over at TechCrunch, meanwhile, has written an interesting …

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