Technology Questions

MIME - Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions. 

MIME types represents a standard way of classifying file types over Internet. 

Web servers and browsers have a list of MIME types, which facilitates files transfer of the same type in the same way, irrespective of operating system they are working in.

A MIME type has two parts: a type and a subtype. They are separated by a slash (/). 

MIME type for Microsoft Word files is application and the subtype is msword, i.e. application/msword.

In a mapreduce job the master pings each worker periodically. In case a worker does not respond to that system then the system is marked as failed. Even completed tasks are rescheduled because the output was stored in a in a local disk of a worker which failed. Hence mapreduce is able to handle large-scale failures easily by simply restarting a task. The master node always saves itself at checkpoints and in case of any failure it simply restarts from that checkpoint.

You can use the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage and the System.Net.Mail.SmtpMail classes to send an email in your Web pages. In order to send an email through your mail server, you need to create an object of the SmtpClient class and set the server name, port, and credentials.

A session is a logical object created by the PHP engine to allow you to preserve data across subsequent HTTP requests. Sessions are commonly used to store temporary data to allow multiple PHP pages to offer a complete functional transaction for the same visitor.

All the above listed actions are the functions of cursor

Yes the object is retained. It creates a timer that calls a selector on the current threads run loop. It may not be 100% precise time-wise as it attempts to dequeue the message from the run loop and perform the selector.

View:

- Tail raid data representation is provided by a view to access data from its table.

- It has logical structure can not occupy space.

- Changes get affected in corresponding tables.

Materialized view

- Pre calculated data persists in materialized view.

- It has physical data space occupation.

- Changes will not get affected in corresponding tables.

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE command can be used to call DDL statements. 

Example:

BEGIN

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE  'TRUNCATE TABLE employee';

END;