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ODPC gives data handlers 14 days to renew expired certificates

Data Commissioner Immaculate Kassait said all data controllers and data processors whose certificates have expired must regularise their status by September 11, 2026.

  • Data handlers have 14 days to renew expired certificates.
  • Renewal deadline: September 11, 2026.
  • Failure risks enforcement action from ODPC.

Building a Client-Side Byte to String Decoder with Unicode Support

Hey DEV community! 👋 When debugging network streams, parsing custom file formats, or inspecting database buffers, we often extract data as raw arrays of numbers rather than human-readable text.

  • Browser-based Byte to String Converter processes data locally
  • Utilizes UTF-8 encoding for diverse character support
  • JavaScript code validates byte values before decoding

Subqueries vs CTEs: Query Optimizer Internals & Memory Spooling Explained

Many engineers believe Common Table Expressions (CTEs) are always faster than subqueries. In modern SQL Server (and PostgreSQL), that is a myth . Here is what actually happens under the hood: 1.

  • CTEs and subqueries treated similarly by SQL optimizer in recent versions
  • CTEs offer readability and pipeline stacking advantages
  • Reusing a CTE multiple times may cause performance overhead

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