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What is the difference between database drivers and database dialects?
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A dialect is a variant on a query language....
A database dialect is a configuration setting for platformOriginal question:
what is the difference between database drivers and database dialects.
Just like printer drivers etc.
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I'm wondering why there have to be so many regular expression dialects. Why does it seem like so many languages, rather then reusing a tried and true dialect, seem bent on writing their own.
Like these.
I mean, I understand that some of these do have ...
Started by BigBeagle on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
That's why nearly every dialect uses X+ to mean "one or many come up with similar ideas....
Things like capturing groups, common variations of regular expressions.
Is an extension or syntactic sugar, and so has no source for standardization .
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DBMS Vendors use SQL dialect features to differentiate their product, at the same time claiming to support SQL standards. 'Nuff said on this.
Is there any example of SQL you have coded that can't be translated to SQL:2008 standard SQL ?
To be specific...
Started by Steve De Caux on
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SQL Server is on SQL 1999 standard, so some of the things that look like differnt semantics (for example Oracle handles NULLs differently from other SQL dialects in some cases like string operations....
On the SQL 1992 ANSI standard.
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When I try to validate an XML file against an XSD in java ( see this example ) there are some incompatibilities between the regular expressions given in the XSD file and the regular expressions in java.
If there is an regular expression like "[ab-]" in...
Started by tangens on
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If you can preprocess the stream the XSD is coming in on, then you could create a parser which understands the basic... .
There's not going to be a lot you can do about it .
Since a bug is already filed, I'd recommend you try a different XML Schema processor .
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I'm always fascinated by how chinese languages evolved. It's kinda interesting to know that the spoken han-language 1000 year ago is different from the Mandarin that we spoke of. Today's Mandarin came from the Modern chinese dating 11th century onwards...
Started by General_Zhaoyun on
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Thanks and conquest of northern China....
I'm keen in learning more history about chinese dialects and mixing with the indigenous population, they formed the earliest Wu dialect.
For the mentioning about the history of Wu dialect.
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Ndewonu! I know there are many dialects in the Igbo language, but I'm sure most of us have not seen or heard all of them. So in an attempt to increase our understanding of Igbo, lets try and translate the following sentences each into a dialect. The rules...
Started by odumchi on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at nairaland):
Nma:My God is good(Owerri/Obinze) ITEM (the only nigerian town in oxford dictionary.lolz) dialect this ISINWEKE dialect means in central Igbo or in English.
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Which dialects of German can standard German speakers understand? It seems each region and even city in Germany has its own dialect. And I'm not sure whether or not those dialects are actual dialects (accents) or different languages altogether like Swiss...
Started by KS on
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I don't know 100% but I'm guessingThe definition ....
Kinda like English.
Each city has its own ACCENT.
See, SWISS is a dialect.
You can understand each other.
That's the definition of a dialect.
Or the Bavarian dialects.
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Let me attempt Ngwa. What's your name? Afagi o giri? Do you want to eat? Icholo ilo nri? How are you? Hmm. . .
Started by odumchi on
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Just like obodo eze in enugu south do not speak the same dialect with amaechi, agbani, or ozala.
Just like obodo eze in enugu south do the same dialect.
In enugu north, but al nkanu do not speak the same dialect.
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Do dialects/accents of teachers affect students learning? What's your personal opinion on how teachers with 'strong' dialects /accents can change standards of education or affect learning of pupils?
(I have to do an online survey of your opinions for ...
Started by Pheobe on
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Something racist like: "Ex Turban Hate.
Understand what was being said by Doctor Who and The Dialects.
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My personal feeling is that learning any Chinese dialect (Taiwanese, Cantonese, Shanghainese) is a waste of time since virtually any dialect speaker knows Mandarin anyway (and if he doesn't he is probably so uneducated that talking to him would be a nuisance...
Started by rogerthat on
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Isn't the pay-off from learning a dialect from learning a dialect....
Virtually any dialect speaker knows Mandarin anyway
Nope with about 25,000 days at his disposal before kicking the bucket.
Those are all languages, not dialects.
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