Chapter 18. Working with Data from External Sources

In the last chapter, you learned how to optimize your database. This chapter brings together elements from other chapters in more ways than one. This means that you will be building on a foundation that was laid in previous chapters. You will see things that are familiar to you either as an expansion or as a different perspective of a previous topic. Seemingly unrelated pieces of information will come together to form a harmonious whole.

Various types of integration have been discussed and shown by example. This chapter delves a little deeper into the issue of how integration (through automating importing and exporting) can help overcome common development obstacles. In particular, you learn ...

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