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Top 12 Smart Tips To Work With SQL

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Your users probably don’t know a thing about SQL, but you know its value. It’s everywhere, it’s easy to learn, and SQL solutions are simple to implement. Whether you use SQL a lot or sparingly, working smarter with SQL will help you avoid errors and improve performance.
Many SQLs are vendor-specific. The following tips apply to [...]

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Ten PHP Design Patterns

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Design patterns can speed up the development process by providing tested, proven development paradigms. Effective software design requires considering issues that may not become visible until later in the implementation. Reusing design patterns helps to prevent subtle issues that can cause major problems, and it also improves code readability for coders and architects who are [...]

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Database Normalization and Table structures

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Normalisation is the term used to describe how you break a file down into tables to create a database. There are 3 or 4 major steps involved known as 1NF (First Normal Form), 2NF (Second Normal Form), 3NF (Third Normal Form) and BCNF (Boyce-Codd Normal Form). There are others but they are rarely if ever [...]

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Prevent identity theft by avoiding these seven common mistakes

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Identity theft may be on the rise, but you don’t have to make it easy for thieves — take steps to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of your employees and clients.
Is your organization part of the solution or part of the problem? PII is pouring through the security floodgates and ending up in the [...]

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Pop-up windows: Know the difference

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There’s been a lot of publicity about pop-up windows, and most of it hasn’t exactly been rave reviews. But it hasn’t always been this way.
In fact, pop-up windows were a positive component in the beginning. Created long before tabbed browsers, their purpose was to present information without interfering with the current browser window.
These days, due [...]

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