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Looking for an edge delivering more data insights? This article is about easy ways to empower users by implementing database views and stored procedures, offering insights into how and why, their respective advantages, plus real life examples to get even greater efficiency for your users. Demonstrating use cases for views and stored procedures, with comparison of features. Based on PostgreSQL, it's applicable to any database with support for views and procedures.
Email is essential in today's world, implementing DMARC ensures we are doing our best to ensure our email safely reaches its destination and reduce forgery and phishing. With these free tools help is at hand to deploy DMARC in three easy stages.
Email is essential, as are time and sanity, the latter are scarce resources so it's essential to use them well. Filtering email to organise and tame this never ending stream benefits us by using our time more effectively and keep our sanity. This article uses standard SIEVE RFC-5228 to make moments that matter more effective.