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Excellent! Everyone can stop trying to write String concatenation tutorials, because you're never going to top this one.

Thanks! :)

In the Hibernate book, there is a great line about how (paraphrasing): "we are blessed with a myriad number of tutorials on string concatenation and yet little is offered on the N Selects problem".

My vote is: 0. Not -1 because it is a legit article.

So, you're basically complaining that it's not about N selects? :)

Well, I only wrote it because the other one had so little to offer. To tell the truth its real purpose is to show how this type of article should look like. I could have written one about that very topic, but I thought it would be more effective/useful to write an exemplary article instead.

Complaining is always easy, doing it better requires more work and dedication. That's why I went down this slightly obscure two birds with one stone route. In retrospect I think it turned out fairly well. While all its attention stems from its topic, it clearly demonstrates that an article with more depth is more useful/interesting to the developer community. And that's the point I actually wanted to make.

Of course it's cool that I also found out a few less well known details on the way. :)

I'm not really interested in N selects myself. I do quite a lot of different things with different languages, but so far I never came close to that topic. If you are interested in it... how about doing some research and writing your own article? It can be quite entertaining.

By the way I already wrote about more creative/unique topics like spreading the shuffling overhead across the draws in a continuous fashion ( http://kaioa.com/node/53 ). While that one was truly groundbreaking, it isn't really something many people care about. Well, the dots were there... I had to connect em. ;)

I completely agree with Daniel - this is not going to be topped. Thanks alot.