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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

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An assertion documents the expected state of specific program variables at the point where the assertion is written, in a testable way so that we can find program bugs — logic errors that have led to corrupted program state. Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

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