Once upon a time, back in the 60s, some MIT nerds took it upon themselves to “waste” valuable research computer time to compute the ideal route to ride the entire New York subway system. This is a pretty interesting look at how to coordinate a project to achieve a monumental feat purely for the [...]
Over time, I’ve had the need for more and more robust error handling in SQL. Initially I accomplished this with transactions, but eventually I needed something more. Finally, I came up with a template that I have started to use every time I start writing a new SQL file.
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