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London, United Kingdom

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Data warehouse contractor in London. Mostly I work with SQL Server on Insurance clients. I've proposed a business intelligence site on Area 51, which has now been merged into dba.stackexchange.com.

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Ways to avoid eager spool operations on SQL Server

sql-server tsql spool eager asked Sep 17, 2008 at 8:58

stackoverflow.com

25 votes

Where can one find source archives of old SQLite versions?

sqlite asked Mar 5, 2009 at 15:19

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23 votes

Is it possible to programmatically construct a Python stack frame and start execution at an arbitrary point in the code?

python serialization stack continuations python-stackless asked Feb 12, 2009 at 13:53

stackoverflow.com

13 votes

Two recruiters have asked for 'market activity' in the past two days - is this a scam?

recruitment asked Jul 18, 2018 at 22:09

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12 votes

Descent 2, level 24 - how to deactivate this force field?

descent-2 asked May 5, 2012 at 0:29

gaming.stackexchange.com

11 votes

Please warn people instead of silently clipping answers over max length

feature-request asked Aug 11, 2009 at 15:12

meta.stackexchange.com

10 votes

Should Stack Exchange support ESR releases of Firefox?

discussion firefox asked Aug 11, 2012 at 22:29

meta.stackexchange.com

8 votes

What are the binary storage formats for sqflt8, sqlmoney and other native SQL data types?

sql-server file-format bcp asked Jan 20, 2010 at 8:23

stackoverflow.com

6 votes

How good is the noise reduction on an XRackpro2?

rack noise-reduction asked Jul 11, 2010 at 11:44

serverfault.com

5 votes

Does InDesign have an analogue to MIF or some other easily generated format with equivalent capability?

import adobe-indesign asked Sep 13, 2009 at 11:42

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Random is barely random at all?

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Dealbreakers for new programming jobs?

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Should developers have administrator permissions on their PC

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Should developers be able to query production databases?

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Why can't RDBM's cluster the way NoSQL does?

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Database development mistakes made by application developers

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How to Store Historical Data

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Resources for learning C program design

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