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Obviously a noobie post The surprise here for a SQL Server expert is that “select into” doesn’t work for copying data from a source table into a destination. Perhaps there is some other command, but select into isn’t it. To dump a few tables (users, bottles, wines, vintages)
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Recently I had a close look at the mysqli prepared statements. Why use prepared statements in php if you can easily concatenate a statement string and then execute it? There are several is an interesting issue, for example an article states that prepared statements make a difference. Let’s start from the beggining. mysqli is an extended version of the well known mysql library. Why is that a good thing? Well most functions are called the same and therefore porting from one to the other will not be as difficult - one does not need to change the approach, just make sure that everything works and the names of functions have a ‘mysqli’ instead of ‘mysql’. (more…)
The procedural aspects of LaTeX markup naturally suggests a connection with scripting languages. Any anyone serious about writing with strutural markup will eventually benefit with some familiarity with a scripting language, be it Perl, Ruby, Lua or what have you. (I have been learning Ruby.) Larry Wall author of Perl has written some reflections on scripting languages. It is an interesting read even for the unitiated. Wall’s background in linguistics and evident humanity shine through. One of the delightful surprises is the connection between Perl and Postmodernism (one may quibble with the implicit characterization of Postmodernism and its description as “liberal”, but I won’t, as it would only detract from what is of genuine interest):
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