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the trilogy as a source of help

I’ve been a user on stackoverflow since shortly after it debuted last year. I’m also becoming active on superuser and serverfault.

Today I have a prime example of why these services are so helpful. I have a small db scripting problem. After googling’ for a while with various combinations of keywords, including attempting to make heads or tails of the MySQL documentation, I asked this question on SO.

Inside of a couple minutes, several folks answered my question, pointing to exactly the part of the manual I couldn’t find on my own.

Volunteer communities are awesome.

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  1. antipaucity » more help from stackoverflow on Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 10:57

    [...] this question a while back, but in reviewing some of my history, I was reminded of how helpful the site has been for a variety of [...]

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