(Jason Roberts) C# 7.0 introduced the concept of discards. Discards are intentionally unused, temporarily dummy variables that we don’t care about and don’t want to use.
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Grouping Shared Variables in Azure DevOps Pipeline
(Abhijit Jana) Grouping Shared Variables in Azure DevOps Pipeline helps to organize and managing common variables across different Build and Release Pipelines.
Visual Studio Code Gets New Python Debugger
(David Ramel) The March 2020 update to Microsoft’s wildly popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code focused on improving quality via bug fixes, but it did introduce a new debugger.
Better Prometheus rate() Function with VictoriaMetrics
(Peter Zaitsev) There are a lot of things I love about Prometheus; its data model is fantastic for monitoring applications and PromQL language is often more expressive than SQL for data retrieval needs you have in the observability space.
SQL SERVER – Error 15580 – Cannot Drop Master Key Because Dialog ‘GUID’ is Encrypted by It
(Pinal Dave) Sometimes I get amazed by the speed at which the search engine crawls and gets the right results. A few days ago, I wrote a blog about a UI error in Always On availability group.
Use Angular Application As Desktop Application Using Electron
(Nagaraj M) In this article we will learn about how to use Angular as a desktop application using the Electron plug-in, and also we will see how to create a set up for Windows.
ORA-17502: ksfdcre:4 Failed to create file +DATA during Physical Standby creation using RMAN
(Anuradha Mudgal) We are going to follow some steps to solve the “ORA-17502: ksfdcre:4 Failed to create file +DATA during Physical Standby creation using RMAN”.
GitHub to acquire NPM JavaScript package registry
(Paul Krill) Microsoft-owned GitHub has signed an agreement to purchase JavaScript package registry provider NPM, with plans to integrate the two platforms and move the private NPM packages of paying NPM customers to the GitHub Packages registry.
Using Subtraction To Power The Array Sort Comparison Operator In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, while looking at generating color histograms using GraphicsMagick and Lucee CFML, I had to sort of an Array of colors based on their frequency distribution within an image.
MySQL Group Replication and its Memory consumption (troubleshooting).
(Vignesh Prabhu) This blog is about one of the issues encountered by our Remote DBA Team in one of the production servers. We have a setup of MySQL 5.7 Single Primary (Writer) GR with cluster size of 3 .