SourceForge  

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Fast, secure and free downloads from the largest Open Source applications and software directory.

ISOHunt - the BitTorrent and P2P search engine  

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Welcome to isoHunt, the most comprehensive BitTorrent search engine. With cross-referenced trackers data you won't find anywhere else, all updated to the hour. This is your all-in-one P2P files search engine and community.

crazedlist.org search craigslist like a madman  

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Revision3 Internet Television  

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Some of my favorite channels include:


Don't forget to check-out Veronica's Blog too:

Gnome Partition Editor (gParted)  

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KickYouTube - Download videos from youtube  

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User-Defined Functions: Scalar vs. Table-Valued vs. Inline  

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SET vs SELECT when assigning variables  

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Do you know what the difference is between using SET and SELECT when assigning varaibles in T-SQL? Well, there are some differences. I came across a great article by Narayana Vyas Kondreddi from the UK that describes the difference between the two.


The article is well worth the read, but here are the main points:


  1. SET is the ANSI standard for variable assignment, SELECT is not.
  2. SET can only assign one variable at a time, SELECT can make multiple assignments at once.
  3. If assigning from a query, SET can only assign a scalar value. If the query returns multiple values/rows then SET will raise an error. SELECT will assign one of the values to the variable and hide the fact that multiple values were returned (so you'd likely never know why something was going wrong elsewhere - have fun troubleshooting that one)
  4. When assigning from a query if there is no value returned then SET will assign NULL, where SELECT will not make the assignment at all (so the variable will not be changed from it's previous value)
  5. As far as speed differences - there are no direct differences between SET and SELECT. However SELECT's ability to make multiple assignments in one shot does give it a slight speed advantage over SET.

Take a look at the complete article to see Vyas' complete tests to get the entire picture.

Rules to Better SQL Reporting Services  

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