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I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

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I would like the user to be able to click a button on the web page that will run a SQL query (canned report) and export the result data to an Excel spreadsheet. The data does not need to display on ...

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