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"I want to make a table in this database containing all the ISBNs. How many ISBNs do you reckon there are in the world? A few thousand?" - an ambitious developer in my team.On Internet Archive
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Did you know that the original 9-digit SBN code was created primarily for WHSmith to make it easier for them to sell books?Permalink On Internet Archive
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To his credit, he's done it. The SQL extracts the ISBNs from the MarcXML records in the database and puts all our ISBNs in a separate new table so they're easier to work with. We decided to set the upper limit for the sequential control no. at 20,000,000 just to be safe.Permalink On Internet Archive