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My Conference Attendance …

I regularly attend technical conferences in order to learn, make new contacts and generally participate in whatever community that conference represents. Over the years, I have found that the best way to increase my chances of making new friends and contacts is to speak at the conference - people …

Why I use LaTeX

When I tell people that I don’t use Microsoft Word, they are generally somewhat taken aback and then assume that, because I own a Mac rather than a Windows PC, that I just use Apple’s Pages instead. I don’t! In fact, I don’t use any kind of conventional word processor. I also …

Oracle Update Statements

There are several methods in Oracle SQL to update records in one table based on the content of another table. Here, I give some of those methods and some guidance on where they might be most appropriate. The Basics Oracle uses a ‘correlated subquery’ syntax which looks like this: UPDATE …