Author: sroot
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creating a new column in a MySQL select query
I’ve been really busy since my last post (a whole month without a post!). Work is exceptionally busy and work comes first. Even my reading has slowed down a bit. I have several things waiting to be posted when I get time to write about them – including the first ever competition for this blog!…
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Sharpe's Havoc (Bernard Cornwell), Sharpe's Tiger (Bernard Cornwell) & Sharpe's Eagle (Bernard Cornwell)
I have been busy reading. Just before we left for our holiday I scoured the local second hand bookshop and picked up 3 more Sharpe books. I’ve been aiming for the beginning of the series and I did quite well. Firstly I started with Sharpe’s Tiger which (being chronologically first in the series) tells the…
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Warrier Class (Dale Brown)
Another Dale Brown novel, but this time not part of the “Dreamland” series of novels. At least it doesn’t say ‘Dreamland’ on the front cover but it does have all the hi tech gadets and gizmos and the ‘dreamland’ base is used too. In these books, people can jump out of airplanes without parachutes and…