SQL Commands: The List of Basic SQL Language Commands
This article provides a comprehensive guide to master SQL Commands. Explore DDL, DML, DCL, and TCL commands along with examples, SQL dialects and best security practices for efficient database management. Continue reading SQL Commands: The List of Basic SQL Language Commands on SitePoint.
Read moreWBIT#3: Can good team dynamics make Agile obsolete?
Kyle welcomes Wes Copeland, a senior frontend engineer at Apartment Advisor, to the interview. They talk about how good test coverage helps you develop software faster, the benefits of low-fidelity prototypes, and why he prefers to avoid vibes-driven development.
Read moreHow to analyze large datasets with Python: Key principles & tips
Data analysis with Python becomes a lot more challenging when dealing with large datasets. Unlike smaller datasets, which can be handled with basic tools and workflows, large datasets bring about unique problems like memory limitations, performance bottlenecks, and slower processing times. These challenges require data analysts, data engineers, and software
Read moreChris’ Corner: HTML
HTML is fun to think about. The old classic battle of “HTML is a programming language” has surfaced in the pages of none other than WIRED magazine. I love this argument, not even for it’s merit, but for the absolutely certainty that you will get people coming out of the
Read moreArea of a quadrilateral from the lengths of its sides
Last week Heron’s formula came up in the post An Unexpected Triangle. Given the lengths of the sides of a triangle, there is a simple expression for the area of the triangle. where the sides are a, b, and c and s is the semiperimeter, half the perimeter. Is there
Read moreEntering Russian characters in Vim with digraphs
The purpose of this post is to expand on the following sentence [1]: Russian letters are created by entering [Ctrl-k followed by] a corresponding Latin letter followed by an equals sign -, or, in a few places, a percent sign %. The Russian alphabet has 33 letters, so there couldn’t
Read moreChebyshev and Russian transliteration
It’s not simple to transliterate Russian names to English. Sometimes there is a unique mapping, or at least a standard mapping, of a particular name, but often there is not. An example that comes up frequently in mathematics is Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821–1894). This Russian mathematician’s name Пафну́тий Льво́вич Чебышёв
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