Beat Vontobel
CTO, MeteoNews AG

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Beat Vontobel is the CTO at MeteoNews AG, a Swiss weather forecasting company, where he initiated the transition from MS SQL to MySQL and generally from closed to open source a few years ago. The company used most of the new features of MySQL 5.0 right from the start (and Beat Vontobel, an active member of the MySQL community and of the MySQL guilds, regularly blogged about this experience.

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11:55am Tuesday, 04/15/2008
The Lost Art of the Self Join
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Beat Vontobel (MeteoNews AG)
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Why would you join a table to itself? It's an elegant solution to many problems beyond the text book example of an employee's table! And if you're brave, you might even solve a Sudoku with one SELECT. Read more.
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