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I was given a little reward the other day. My son came home telling me that the manufacturing company he works for wants to build some custom test equipment using Arduino-style controller chips. I've been experimenting, pretty darned lightly so far, with these over the last year. He starts asking me about which controllers I […]

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SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation

A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?

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