A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. text Generally issues like this are related to any of the following need to be looked at: firewall settings from the web server to the database server connection string errors enable the appropriate … Read more
The semantics of ‘contains’ is not straightforward at all. In general, it would be better to use ‘index’ to test if an array has a specific value, e.g. .fruit | index( “orange” ) However, if the item of interest is itself an array, the general form: ARRAY | index( [ITEM] ) should be used, e.g.: … Read more
EDIT: Do not use the Membership Provider as-is because it is horridly inadequate in terms of protecting user’s passwords In light of the fact that googling “membership provider hashing algorithm” turns up this answer as the first result, and the gospel that will be inferred, it behoves me to warn folks about using the Membership … Read more
You are running into comparison operator chaining; 1 in () == False does not mean (1 in ()) == False. Rather, comparisons are chained and the expression really means: (1 in ()) and (() == False) Because (1 in ()) is already false, the second half of the chained expression is ignored altogether (since False … Read more
Often developers struggle with the verification of a login password, because they are not sure how to handle the stored password hash. They know that the password should be hashed with an appropriate function like password_hash(), and store them in a varchar(255) field: // Hash a new password for storing in the database. // The … Read more
The bug is probably somewhere else in your code, because it should work fine: >>> 3 not in [2, 3, 4] False >>> 3 not in [4, 5, 6] True Or with tuples: >>> (2, 3) not in [(2, 3), (5, 6), (9, 1)] False >>> (2, 3) not in [(2, 7), (7, 3), “hi”] … Read more