Top "Field" questions

MySQL field type for a comments field or text area

As the title says, I'm after a good field type for a comments field I have in a table. It …

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Is it possible to do Solr faceting combining multiple fields, like distinct on multiple columns in RMDB?

Let's say I want to do faceting on the combination of two fields in my doc. For example: Field1 Field2 …

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Inserting text and fields in Word 2010 header without using .Select

I am trying to fix up a Word 2010 page header containing fields for filename, save date and page number as …

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Hiding Fields in Java Inheritance

Within a class, a field that has the same name as a field in the superclass hides the superclass's field. …

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Select * for Github GraphQL Search

One of the advantage of Github Search v4 (GraphQL) over v3 is that it can selectively pick the fields that …

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How can I improve performance of Field.set (perhap using MethodHandles)?

I'm writing some code that calls Field.set and Field.get many many thousands of times. Obviously this is very …

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Django - Determine field type of a variable passed to a template tag

I would like to write a Django template tag to which I can pass a variable. I would like the …

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Regex for fixed width field

I need to match a fixed width field on a file layout with a regular expression. The field is numeric/…

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