Compares SQL performance to a military campaign similar to Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War,' with information on design strategy, SQL patterns, concurrency, and response times.

International economic integration can in many ways be seen as one of the everyday consequences of globalization. As communication lines grow shorter, more and more countries are seeing the use in hacking down trade barriers. This edition deals with this topic.

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This collection of essays, part of the Onati International Series in Law and Society, focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty. They illustrate the distinct dimensions of poverty in a range of different political and cultural settings and also show how poverty is exacerbated by quite discrete local cultural factors in some instances. There is, nonetheless, a universal element which runs through all the contributions. The fate of those who are disadvantaged in society depends crucially on their access to goods through the world of work. Thus gender, ethnic background or disability can result in individuals having a much higher chance of experiencing poverty than others, and the success of these groups in achieving a measure of prosperity is bound up with a multiplicity of geographical and political factors.