We were able to quickly retrieve data from the Dev Articles site and save it as a text file with tab-separated values. This enabled us to import the file into a table in Access. Querying this data using SQL statements allowed us to arrive at an objective determination of the December contest winner.
Finally, to the prize committee I would like to say “Thank you. Don’t wrap it, I’m not putting it under the tree.” ;)
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