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Mercurial cherry picking changes for commit

June 10, 2023 by Tarik

If you are using TortoiseHg 1.x for Windows, this feature is implemented beautifully right out of the box (no extensions required). Run the TortoiseHg Commit Tool. Choose a file for which you only want to commit a subset of its changes. Click on the Hunk Selection tab in the preview pane. Double-click or use the … Read more

Add a new table column to specific ordinal position in Microsoft SQL Server

July 22, 2022 by Tarik

You have to create a temp table that mirrors the original table’s schema but with the column order that you want, then copy the contents of the original to temp. Delete the original and rename the temp. This is what SQL Management Studio does behind the scenes. With a schema sync tool, you can generate … Read more