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Short for "difference" or "differencing", in computing, "diff" refers to a data comparison that calculates and displays the differences between two objects (usually files or directories).

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Are there any performance difference between Microsoft SQL server 2008 Editions

I always wonders this. For example you are using Microsoft SQL server 2008 web edition. It supports your hardware fully. And you upgraded it to Datacenter edition. would there be any performance difference at select,update,insert and delete queries…
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Bacula and send file list to RunAfterJob script

I have Bacula backup server. And I run sripts before and after backuping, using RunBeforeJob and RunAfterJob. Can I send to script in "RunAfterJob" parameter contained list of backuped files?
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diff command for comparing files more than 2GB in solaris?

how to run recursively diff command for comparing files of file size more than 2GB in solaris?
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linux diff command options

diff cookies.old cookies.new 5c5 < One cup vanilla extract --- > One teaspoon vanilla extract 7d6 < Six ounces chopped liver 21a22 Any flags/options can help me get rid of this 5c5, 7d6, 21a22 in output ? What does these characters mean exactly ?
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How do I make sdiff ignore the * character?

Here's what I'm sure is an easy one, but I can't figure it out. I have two files: file1: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike file2: You are in a maze of twisty little* passages, all alike I want to perform sdiff on these files,…
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Efficient way of determining whether 2 directories have ANY difference?

I'd like to recursively compare two directory trees that are expected to be identical, but I don't want a full comparison which would take forever. I'd like to do an efficient comparison so that as soon as 1 difference is detected, the command stops…
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Compare 2 Directories and Move Differences to a Third directory

Running Ubuntu 20.04 and want to compare two directories called 1 and 2 and move differences to a separate directory called 3, ideally conserving the subdirectories. I am able to get almost the desired effect using: rsync -aHxv --progress …
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Differencing Disks in VirtualBox

I'm struggling to understand how to do differencing disks in VirtualBox v3.1.0. I've created a Windows 2008 Server, but now I want to use that as a base image for a number of other servers. The help file has a description of what differencing disks…
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diff gives all-different, but human compare shows equalities

I have 2 files a: 2 m1.small 1 m3.large 2 m3.medium 2 t1.micro 1 t2.large 7 t2.medium 4 t2.micro 7 t2.small and b: 1 c4.2xlarge 1 c4.large 2 m1.small 1 m3.large 3 …
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how to compare and move the matched string files in different locations

I have a two different .zip files in /tmp/1/ and /tmp/2 I want to compare these two different location files and move the matched string files into…
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Show files to be patched on .diff file and determine if they are patched or not

Having a .diff patch file, I'm trying to take actions in a shell script depending on if files listed in .diff file are: 1) already patched, 2) not patched, 3) not patchable. I found no way on GNU Patch to show this information in a non-interactive…
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Does rsnapshot save binary diffs?

I use rsnapshot for some years under Kubunt/Linux. But I am not sure how it (and underlying rsync) handles binary diffs: Image a large Thunderbird mailbox file or a 10 MB jpg photo and I change the EXIF data by adding a tag or a rating. What does…
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AIX diff not showing the content of a new file

I need to create a patch between 2 folder: On linux: diff -Naur folder folder_fix It's working for all the file I just edited but not for the one I added (can't get the content of it). The command return: Only in folder_fix/add/: file.conf I need…
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SQL Server connection issue

I am learning from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143432.aspx, my question is what is the differences between "Connections per client" and "user connection"?
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Xen dom0 and domu ifconfig returns different stats

I expected that when I use ifconfig command to display network traffic RX and TX values both for dom0 and domu machine, there are differences. I run once ping inside the domu. domu ifconfig command show [root@localhost /]# ifconfig eth0 | grep…
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