What is the purpose of Android’s tag in XML layouts?

<merge/> is useful because it can get rid of unneeded ViewGroups, i.e. layouts that are simply used to wrap other views and serve no purpose themselves. For example, if you were to <include/> a layout from another file without using merge, the two files might look something like this: layout1.xml: <FrameLayout> <include layout=”@layout/layout2″/> </FrameLayout> layout2.xml: … Read more

Errors: “INSERT EXEC statement cannot be nested.” and “Cannot use the ROLLBACK statement within an INSERT-EXEC statement.” How to solve this?

This is a common issue when attempting to ‘bubble’ up data from a chain of stored procedures. A restriction in SQL Server is you can only have one INSERT-EXEC active at a time. I recommend looking at How to Share Data Between Stored Procedures which is a very thorough article on patterns to work around … Read more