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Jay Whaaaat?

jQuery is a powerful JavaScript framework by which to examine a page's HTML and add new content or change the page's structure. Use it with site generators such as Squarespace to make design... Read...

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Helping to Advance your Career

Do you want to advance your career? Help someone else advance theirs. The more people you drag up the ladder behind you, the faster you go.  Read the full post at www.gennick.com/database.

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Choosing Squarespace

Squarespace is a drag-and-drop website-builder for small organizations and creative professionals wanting a polished and functional web presence. Squarespace sites are quick to create and then... Read...

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Safeguarding Your Domain

Brand identity from a domain name is valuable. Small organizations with volunteer-built websites are often at risk for losing control over their names. Protect your organization's name by treating......

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Border Lines

Generate underscore hovers on links in your site menu with CSS border settings. When doing so you may need to adjust padding versus margin to control whether and how far your underscore hover... Read...

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Color Choosing in Squarespace

Choosing colors for a new Squarespace site ironically is made much easier if you find good ways to limit your options. Otherwise the 16+ million colors from the color wheels become overwhelming.......

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Conferences and Missed Opportunities

My job sends to many industry events, but I've missed attending some events that would have fed my soul. Don't miss those! Regrets are no fun. Feed your career, and feed some dreams too. Read the full...

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Installing Adventure Works

Create a test bed for learning SQL by installing Microsoft SQL Server Express along with the Adventure Works example database. Motivated by Tim Ford's #EntryLevel Challenge. Read the full post at...

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Sliced Bread in SQL

There is sliced bread in SQL. You'll find it in the from of window functions. They are so very important and useful that it's irresponsible not be understand them and use them.  Read the full post at...

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ANSI Join Syntax in SQL Server

Writing your database queries using explicit join syntax helps toward clarity and readability while reducing the opportunity for error and wrong results. Read the full post at www.gennick.com/database.

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SQL Joinery

Joins are fundamental in SQL, and are used in most every production query. There are three types in particular that every developer should fully understand. Read the full post at www.gennick.com/database.

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Exceptional SQL

SQL's union operators can make queries easy to write and intuitive to read and understand. One of these is the EXCEPT operator that "subtracts" one set of rows from another.  Read the full post at...

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Cross Joins

Cross joins give all combinations of rows from two tables. One use for them lies in generating large amounts of data for performance testing or similar purposes. Read the full post at...

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Skinny Banners and the Corporate Laptop

Prevent the narrow display of banner images from Squarespace websites on laptops with 1366 x 768 screens. This includes many corporate laptops, as well as budget models from discount stores.  Read the...

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Fear Nothing

Three-valued logic arising from nulls in the database is like a triple-headed monster attacking your queries through unintended and often wrong results.  Read the full post at www.gennick.com/database.

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Surprise Attack of the Nulls: Hidden Traps in the NOT IN

Nulls are tricky, and their effects go beyond query formulation to affect even the very the business questions you’re able to pose. Business questions must be formulated with nulls in mind.  Read the...

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Subqueries

Subqueries can take the place of column and table references, helping you to formulate queries that otherwise would be more difficult or less efficient to express using join operations.  Read the full...

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The Roots of Relational

A conversation with Chris Date about the term relational, and how that term came to be used to describe database engines such as SQL Server and Oracle Database. Read the full post at...

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Accelerating Your Experience

We all want more experience. The fastest way to get it is by helping solve other people's problems. Read the full post at www.gennick.com/database.

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Make a Difference!

Don't waste your career sitting on the fence. Commit to something! Work diligently. Make a difference.  Read the full post at www.gennick.com/database.

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