What is Xpenology? Is it Linux related thing?

Xpenology isn’t a linux OS like Ubuntu or other common distribution. It’s a bootloader for synologys operating system DSM, which they use on their NAS devices. DSM is running on a custom linux version developed by Synology, so it’s also not real compareable to desktop/server distributions in a direct way. Its optimized for running on … Read more

What is the difference between UNION and UNION ALL?

UNION removes duplicate records (where all columns in the results are the same), UNION ALL does not. There is a performance hit when using UNION instead of UNION ALL, since the database server must do additional work to remove the duplicate rows, but usually you do not want the duplicates (especially when developing reports). UNION Example: Result: UNION ALL example: Result:

What is an MDF file? [closed]

SQL Server databases use two files – an MDF file, known as the primary database file, which contains the schema and data, and a LDF file, which contains the logs. See wikipedia. A database may also use secondary database file, which normally uses a .ndf extension. As John S. indicates, these file extensions are purely convention … Read more

What are the differences between a HashMap and a Hashtable in Java?

There are several differences between HashMap and Hashtable in Java: Hashtable is synchronized, whereas HashMap is not. This makes HashMap better for non-threaded applications, as unsynchronized Objects typically perform better than synchronized ones. Hashtable does not allow null keys or values. HashMap allows one null key and any number of null values. One of HashMap’s subclasses is LinkedHashMap, so in the event that you’d want predictable iteration order (which is insertion order by default), you … Read more

How do I force git pull to overwrite everything on every pull?

Really the ideal way to do this is to not use pull at all, but instead fetch and reset: (Altering master to whatever branch you want to be following.) pull is designed around merging changes together in some way, whereas reset is designed around simply making your local copy match a specific commit. You may want to consider slightly different options to clean depending on your system’s … Read more

‘App not Installed’ Error on Android

Primarily for older phones I only encountered the App not installed error when trying to install an apk on my phone which runs on 4.4.2 aka KitKat, but my friend did not encounter this error on his phone which runs on 6+. I tried the other solutions such as removing the old/debug version of the app because … Read more

How to deal with SettingWithCopyWarning in Pandas

The SettingWithCopyWarning was created to flag potentially confusing “chained” assignments, such as the following, which does not always work as expected, particularly when the first selection returns a copy. [see GH5390 and GH5597 for background discussion.] The warning offers a suggestion to rewrite as follows: However, this doesn’t fit your usage, which is equivalent to: While it’s clear that you don’t care … Read more