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		<title>NoCOUG (My)SQL Challenge entry #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I learned about this year&#8217;s NoCOUG SQL Challenge and decided to to put the gray matter between my ears to work. I&#8217;ve been teaching a MySQL course this week and my first impulse was to use my MySQL VM to test my solution attempts. However, I eventually decided to use Recursive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NoCoug SQL Challenge Entry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 18:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love puzzles. So when I heard about the NoCoug SQL Challenge I felt tempted to give it a go. The Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCoug) has challenged us to find a good way to calculate the probability of getting different sums for x throws of a n-sided die using only SQL. The probabilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Server Query Processing Puzzle: LIKE vs ?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adam Machanic</dc:creator>
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