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Designing an appropriate set of indexes can be one of the more troubling aspects of developing efficient relational database applications. Perhaps, the most important thing you can do to assure ...

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Databases are the backbone of countless applications and systems, yet managing them can often feel like navigating a maze of complexity. If you’ve ever found yourself wrestling with SQL queries, ...

Microsoft Access is an reliable and easy-to-use tool for collecting and storing data such as customer contact lists, company inventory, personnel information and sales records. Information you stored ...

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