Using MAX() in a SQL Subquery

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One pro bono project I’m working on is improving a school website where parents can sign up for classes, view students’ grades, etc. One of the problems with the website was that the list of user accounts, which includes all parents and teachers, includes parents from previous years who no longer have students there. The … Read more

EF Database First with ASP.NET MVC 5 and Oracle Database 12c

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There is a great article called “EF Database First with ASP.NET MVC” by Tom FitzMacken that is part of Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC tutorial. I wanted to create a website using the steps outlined here, except instead of using a SQL Server database (as was presented in the article), I wanted to use an Oracle 12c … Read more

The New City of Houston City-Wide Fee Schedule has been Published!

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Back in 2013, I was on the winning team for the City of Houston’s Open Innovation Hackathon, and we produced a replacement for the previous fee schedule. The new fee schedule is now on the public City of Houston website! Update: The new fee schedule, which was at http://www.houstontx.gov/finance/feeschedule/, is not available as of 2015-09-10.