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Under the hood and working with .Net, Test Driven Development, Software Design, and Agile Methodologies

Thoughts on SQL, XML, .NET and sometimes beer.

Back in the days of classic ASP, if you were building a database-driven web site, your choice was either to invest a lot of money to get a copy of Microsoft SQL Server (or some other enterprise-ready database) or invest a lot of time finding a way to deal with the performance and scalability limitations of Microsoft Access. Luckily these days there's another viable alternative: MySQL.

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