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.1 Introduction

When I fly across the country, I often pass the hours programming on my PowerBook. If that programming involves MySQL, I inevitably end up lugging around the book I co-wrote, Managing and Using MySQL (O'Reilly). "


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| DECODE(ENCODE('open sesame', 'please'), 'please') |
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| open sesame                                       |
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 row in set (0.01 sec)"