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Screen Scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup Code Examples

BeautifulSoup (sometimes referred to as Beautiful Soup library) is one of several widely used screen scraping packages for a web page. It is highly regarded for its ease of use and power.
Screen scraping enables developers to create solutions that permit comparative analyses from all over the internet, such as web applications that look for the best price on an item from many different online stores.

2023-08-25

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Database Monitoring for Developers

Database monitoring is an essential part of database development and testing because it will reveal problems early and allow you to drill down to the root cause, as well as look for any worrying trends in behavior of the database, when under load. If you are delaying doing this until a database is in production, you're doing it wrong.

2023-08-21

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Vector Datatype Dimensions

The new vector datatype in SQL Server 2025 requires a number dimension parameter. What is the maximum number of dimensions supported?

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