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Sometimes, either to reduce the amount of typing big table names or when joining a table to itself one will need to alias a table. Personally I find SQL statements with aliases harder to read and a...
I often find it useful to arrange things so that each commit on master's first-parent is a discrete change. It allows git log --first-parent --oneline to be used as a concise, automatically-generat...
What exactly must a C compiler do when it finds a compile-time error? The most obvious kind of errors are language syntax errors, but the C standard also speaks of constraints, which are rules tha...
I have a database with quite a few VARCHAR fields. When the database was first built the lengths of the columns were set a bit larger than absolutely necessary. Now after, having used the DB for a ...
As a person with no significant background in mathematics and computer science I thought that concatenation and AND are logically identical if not very similar because both add something to somethi...
Angular CLI official page indicated how to install the CLI, but provides no information about how to upgrade it. I am interested in how to upgrade the CLI.
One of the fonts available (to me) on Google Docs is Caveat. The following is in 18-point Caveat on Google Docs: I found that Caveat is available at https://github.com/googlefonts/caveat/tree/ma...
I added a QPushButton to my ui file named pushButton, and manually connected it using connect. There are no errors or warnings emitted at any point in the compilation stage The button does show up...
I found a confusing construction in several stored procs in an MS SQL 2008 R2 database: DATEADD(dd, 0, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, some_date)) As I understand it, these are the relevant function signatures: D...
Context: Azure; Windows Server 2012; IIS 8 First up, here's the (redacted) web.config for reference <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="ReverseProxyInboundRule1" stopProcessing="false"&...
