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Look around you. No really, look around you. In the past 30 years, computers have taken over from the filing cabinets of the world to become the (almost) universal way people store and look up information. Would you rather spend five minutes rifling through some badly organized stack of paper for the name of a client or the price of a book or spend ten seconds typing in a search query on a computer and getting the desired information back immediately? We thought so—the computer wins every time.
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© 2004 Damien Foggon and Daniel Maharry
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Foggon, D., Maharry, D. (2004). Data Sources and the Web. In: Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 Databases: From Novice to Professional. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0742-9_1
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