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Entries from April 2011

Toronto hosts second Ontario Women in Computing Conference

April 21st, 2011 · Comments Off

Following a very successful Ontario Women in Computer Science conference held last October at Queen’s University in Kingston, the University of Toronto has announced that it will hold a second Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing conference at the University of Toronto Faculty Club on October 21-22, 2011, hosted by the Women in Computing Science [...]

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Tags: Computer Science education

The first deadly sin – part un

April 20th, 2011 · 2 Comments

In February I introduced the Seven Deadly Sins of Database Application Performance. Our first deadly sin concerns physical database design, which includes schema design issues, table column order, indexing, and choice of database page size, to name but a few important factors, that can adversely impact performance. In this article, I want to explore a [...]

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Tags: Database Administration · SQL Anywhere · SQL Standard