...datetime2. Here is their recommendation: Use the time, date, datetime2 and datetimeoffset data types for new work. These types align with the SQL Standard. They are more portable. time, datetime2 and datetimeoffset provide more seconds precision. datetimeoffset provides time zone s...

...long-running stored procedure in SQL Server 2005 that I'm trying to debug, and I'm using the 'print' command to do it. The problem is, I'm only getting the messages back from SQL Server at the very end of my sproc - I'd like to be able to flush the message buffer and see these messages immediately d...

I am finding it hard to understand the process of Naive Bayes, and I was wondering if someone could explain it with a simple step by step process in English. I understand it takes comparisons by times occurred as a probability, but I have no idea how the training data is related to the actual datase...

... before. Right now, I feel like it's time to get to know the possibilities and create my own personal preference to use in my upcoming projects. ...

I'm using the pdb module to debug a program. I'd like to understand how I can exit pdb and allow the program to continue onward to completion. The program is computationally expensive to run, so I don't want to exit without the script attempting to complete. continue doesn't seems to work. How can...

...setup.py install use pip install . You need to remove all files manually, and also undo any other stuff that installation did manually. If you don't know the list of all files, you can reinstall it with the --record option, and take a look at the list this produces. To record a list of installed ...

... The most readable way is x = 10 if a > b else 11 but you can use and and or, too: x = a > b and 10 or 11 The "Zen of Python" says that "readability counts", though, so go for the first way. Also, the and-or trick will fail if you put a variable instead of 10 and it evaluates to Fals...

...pon the Curry-Howard Isomorphism relatively late in my programming life, and perhaps this contributes to my being utterly fascinated by it. It implies that for every programming concept there exists a precise analogue in formal logic, and vice versa. Here's a "basic" list of such analogies, off th...

Can anyone please explain what setup.py is and how it can be configured or used? 10 Answers ...

... I'd recommend taking a look at the UK Government Data Standard for postcodes [link now dead; archive of XML, see Wikipedia for discussion]. There is a brief description about the data and the attached xml schema provides a regular expression. It may not be exactly what you want bu...