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insanepenguin
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 Posted - 2011-02-12 : 16:46:47
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| Hi Everyone!I'm in the second semester of my first year at University and as I'm a 'mature' (26) student anything that could help me would be very much appreciated!I've only just started with SQL and database design but I find it very interesting. Should I try and find placements or charity work in the summer working with databases? I'm not sure if this will be possible or not, but a lot of graduates struggle with the amount of experience they have. Failing that I guess I'll go all out for a first class degree! |
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Lumbago
Norsk Yak Master
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Posted - 2011-02-14 : 03:13:53
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| Getting real-life experience as early as possible will make it *a lot* easier for you to get a decent job when you're finished with your degree. Getting a relevant paid job as a freshman might be difficult (but not at all impossible!) but if you're willing to work for free to get experience it's a different story. Ask around!If it's hard to get a job, you can also create your own and it is in fact a lot more fun. Find someone in your class or something and start a data driven web site. Create a social network of some kind or a fantasy football league or something. It doesn't have to be ground breaking technology or anything new and fancy but start a cool project that you believe in and that would be fun and that might have some business potential.- LumbagoMy blog-> http://thefirstsql.com/2011/02/07/regular-expressions-advanced-string-matching-and-new-split-function-sql-server-2008-r2/ |
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Transact Charlie
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2011-02-14 : 05:09:15
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| ++ Make a website and build the storage engine in sql server.And normalise the hell out of your first design!Charlie===============================================================Msg 3903, Level 16, State 1, Line 1736The ROLLBACK TRANSACTION request has no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION |
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