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A Left Outer Join (also known as a Left Join or Outer Join) is a Join that ensures all rows from the left table are represented; if no matching row from the right table exists, its corresponding fields are NULL. The following example will select all departments and the first name of employees that ...

A table may be joined to itself, with different rows matching each other by some condition. In this use case, aliases must be used in order to distinguish the two occurrences of the table. In the below example, for each Employee in the example database Employees table, a record is returned containi...

The increment and decrement operators exist in prefix and postfix form. int a = 1; int b = 1; int tmp = 0; tmp = ++a; /* increments a by one, and returns new value; a == 2, tmp == 2 */ tmp = a++; /* increments a by one, but returns old value; a == 3, tmp == 2 */ tmp = --b; ...

min, max, and sorted all need the objects to be orderable. To be properly orderable, the class needs to define all of the 6 methods __lt__, __gt__, __ge__, __le__, __ne__ and __eq__: class IntegerContainer(object): def __init__(self, value): self.value = value def __rep...