An alias is an alternative name. In computer science, the most common contexts are command aliases in shells, column aliases in databases, or variable references in languages like C++.
For bash aliases use the bash-alias tag.
Questions tagged [alias]
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Alias and namespace conflict in Visual Studio Designer
I have a namespace conflict between two referenced assemblies:
i.e., I'm referencing Foo.A.Foo and Foo.Bar, so when I say I want Foo.Bar.Control, VS is trying to find Foo.A.Foo.Bar.Control
I can twiddle the Designer.cs code by adding new…
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Difficulty running a Perl script as a Bash alias
To format my apache error_log so that it is more pleasurable to look at I have written a quick and dirty perl script.
tail -f /var/log/apache2/error_log | perl -ne
'($timeStamp, $error, $hostName, $message) =
/^\[([^\]]+)\] \[([^\]]+)\]…
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Doctrine2 Native SQL Alias without Annotations
I have a problem with the native SQL in Doctrine 2.
The main problem is that the alias does not work. I can only map a SQL-Alias to the entity by adding an annotation. This works fine, if I do it. But it's not really good in production because I…
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Does apache Alias also work with mod_vhost_alias variables?
I'm using mod_vhost_alias for Apache to dynamically use vhosts and documentroots which works fine... But now I'm trying to add an alias to another directory somewhere within the dynamic allocated directories but I can't get it to work...
This is…
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New to Windows Azure Preview
3 questions about Windows Azure Website Preview service (placing my website into cloud):
1. A little embarrassing, but I can't find my FTP credential. I tried my website setup credential as well as the data source string. Both are not applicable. So…
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Adding a user-defined property to all types in D
I'm using Derelict for my OpenGL work, and I'm tired of having to cast(GLvoid*) Vec3.sizeof all the time for funclions like glVertexAttribPointer. So I thought I'd make a function, glsizeof
import std.stdio;
alias void GLvoid;
struct Vec3 {
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Hibernate: Criterion. Add Alias to Criterion Object
In Hibernate, is there a way to create an add an Alias to a Criterion object. I have the following to work with:
I have a dynamic search from big Database with many tables. The search has many (25+) optional non-exclusive parameters selected…
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Server.DataBase alias in SQL Server 2008
I've searched for this in quite a few areas, but haven't found a crystal clear answer to this.
I am working with multiple database servers and am consistently writing out [ServerName].[databasename].dbo.TableName. I know you can alias a table,…
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Giving an alias to a subquery containing a join in access
I am more experienced with SQL server's T-SQL but i have been working in Access. My question is how to give an alias to a sub query that has its own join operation. I believe i am talking about nested join operations. I know that i could create a…
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can't set up alias for lab directory but can set up alias for phpMyAdmin in lion
I am using mac with osx lion
I set up alias for my apache using the following setting:
Alias /phpMyAdmin/ "/Users/jason/Sites/phpMyAdmin/"
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order…
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Is there something problematic about this particular aliased SQL column?
Why would aliases be treated like aliens when used in a select statement?
I can't imagine this is always the case, but I had to change this code:
const string query =
@"SELECT C.PLATYPUSCLIENTID, E.DEWDROPNAME FOGGY
FROM DUCKBILLACCOUNT B,
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Alias Columns Returned by a Stored Procedure [SQL Server 2008]
I'm not super familiar with stored procedures in general and SQL Server/T-SQL specifically. I'm wondering if there is a way to alias or rename the columns returned by a stored procedure without modifying the stored procedure itself.
Here is the…
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Where does __import__ get alias names from?
Python allows aliasing of imports, through ...as clauses in the import statement, like this:
import mymodule as somealias
from myothermodule import spam as spamalias, ham as hamalias
Now, in the default case at least, import statements,…
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Can I alias multiple columns? How?
I'm using pyodbc and postgres.
Can I alias multiple columns?
Here's the description of my problem:
Data structure:
data
id | c1 | c2
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1 | 11 | 12
2 | 21 | 22
Notation: c is for column
dictionary
id | key | value
----------------
1…
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how to make this git alias?
I use this command to export all files in specify commit(s)
git archive --output=export.zip --format=zip HEAD $(git diff --name-only COMMIT1 COMMIT2)
I want to make an alias so I dont need type this long command everytime.
I tried:
git config…
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