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by r937 | What is the "top ten" problem? Using SQL, how do you select only those rows that have one of the top ten values for a certain column? Read More »

by MartinB | So, you can write CGI scripts. And they get kicked off when a user goes to your page, and fills in a form. But what if you want to have things going on even if you don't get any users? What if you waBut what if you want to have things going on even if you don't get any users? What if you want to run a big database job nightly, ready for your first morning's visitor? Or maybe you want to have an autoresponder check a POP box every few minutes, and fire out appropriate response emails? Read More »