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DB by PHP & MySQL1/22/2010
  Q: I'm looking for a best friendly and easy Administrative front-end Database using PHP & MySQL. I ...
  A: I know AppGini is free and I have heard good things about it, although I have never used it myself. ...
embed video in a database1/7/2010
  Q: Hey, I recently got into web designing and decided to make a website to stream videos and I just ...
  A: Yes you will need an OBJECT database like ORACLE to embed video, graphics audio, graphs, and photos ...
Question about query11/15/2009
  Q: I have the following query: SELECT * FROM PickListDetails WHERE Quantity=(SELECT MAX(Quantity) from ...
  A: Your problem is that you need a GROUP BY statement at the end of the SQL statement for the columns ...
conceptual database design10/4/2009
  Q: I have a question on a homework problem asking me to Identify the mandatory/optional dependencies ...
  A: this look like a relational databases question ?? If so then we are talking about existence ...
SQL Query9/23/2009
  Q: In a view I want to count the number of activities (CMTR_WR_ActivityType) per person ...
  A: I am not sure which database you are using, but most SQL is the same in relational databases. You ...
Which program to use9/11/2009
  Q: I have built an Access database that I want to re-write in a different program for resell as web ...
  A: If you want to use the database thru a webserver/browser yuo should probably use MySQL and apache ...
access 2003 inventory database8/19/2009
  Q: My question is that I need to create and inventory database that can be added to and subtracted from ...
  A: I am not completely clear on what you need. But a basic Inventory database has an Inventory table ...
Dbms7/17/2009
  Q: what is the basic difference between DBMS & RDBMS?
  A: RDBMS is "Relational database management system", DBMS is the same minus the relational. There are ...
calculations in databases7/13/2009
  Q: how do i create an expression that affects two fields in two different tables in a form
  A: You can use the POST_TRIGGER command. You can have a block level POST_INSERT trigger on one table ...
Database and caller id7/10/2009
  Q: My friends parents run a small cleaning company. They have some database that was written by someone ...
  A: This is not an area of my expertise, but there are a few companies that I have found on the ...

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I have 15 years of SQL experience in several large scale business catagories. I have many programs involving complicated SQL queires in both DB2 and Orcale databases. I have many years experience dealing with Database administrators in performance/tuning and implementing large scale SQL systems.

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I have designed many complicated SQL queries involving many aspects of the SQL syntax to obtain information from large databases with performance and efficiency as a major consideration.

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Bachelors degree in Computer Science.

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