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Activity for BobJarvis
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A: What is the difference between a hook and a code injection? A "hook" is a method provided by the developer of a piece of software so that other developers can easily write software which modifies the behavior of that software to fit their particular requirements. Contrasted with this, "code injection" is a technique to modify the behavior of a piece of s... (more) |
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A: Is it unsecure to use a password on the command line to run a MySQL script on Windows? I suppose it depends on your specific environment and just how paranoid you want to be. If you're sitting alone in your home/apartment/cave and there's no one else/no one you can see/no other humans there, then you're probably/maybe/might not be OK. On the other hand, if you're at work/coffee s... (more) |
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A: Why would excluding records by creating a temporary table of their primary keys be faster than simply excluding by value? `isexcluded = 1` is very different from `donottouch != 1`. Whenever possible, try to structure your data and queries so that you can do an equi-join - that is, compare things using an `=` comparison. `>` and `<` and `!=` can be really bad because the database will at the very least have to do an inde... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |