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What are some of your most useful database standards?

I have some ideas, some that I have accumulated over time, but I really want to know what makes things …

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What is "ANSI C++"?

I've had someone tell me that C++98 was written under ANSI before being formally standardised as ISO/IEC 14882:1998. I know …

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When can you omit the file extension in an #include directive?

I'm playing around with gmock and noticed it contains this line: #include <tuple> I would have expected tuple.…

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Closest ancestor matching selector using native DOM?

Is anybody working on a jQuery.closest() equivalent in the DOM api? Looks like the Selectors Level 2 draft adds matches() …

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Open a Standard Jet DB 4.0 file (*.vmd)

I downloaded a database file with the extension "VMD". Now I'm looking for a windows software which can open this …

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Is `long` guaranteed to be at least 32 bits?

By my reading of the C++ Standard, I have always understood that the sizes of the integral fundamental types in …

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Do minor currency units have a ISO standard?

ISO 4217 defines 3-letter currency symbols: EUR USD LKR GBP Do currencies' minor units (cent, pence) have a ISO or similar …

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atoi is a standard function. But itoa is not. Why?

Why this distinction? I've landed up with terrible problems, assuming itoa to be in stdlib.h and finally ending up …

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Are all integer values perfectly represented as doubles?

My question is whether all integer values are guaranteed to have a perfect double representation. Consider the following code sample …

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In an ISO 8601 date, is the T character mandatory?

I'm wondering if the following date is ISO8601 compliant : 2012-03-02 14:57:05.456+0500 (for sure, 2012-03-02T14:57:05.456+0500 is compliant, but not …

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