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ImageMagick command arguments

Note to self for common commands use by ImageMagick: The manual The examples Geometry specification [width]x[height][+-x+-y] Cropping Always use "+repage" or else... When cropping do specify +0+0 or you'll get lots of tiles Checking the output on the command line -- use xpm:- for output ( -compress none pbm:- is also kind-of usable). Thumbnail gallery: montage input*.jpg -tile XxY -mode Concatenate output.jpg

SQLite, .NET, and DataTable constraints

The problem Here's a simplified snippet of what illustrates the problem I had today. SQLiteCommand cmd = cnn.CreateCommand("SELECT a.a1, b.b1 FROM a INNER JOIN b USING (b1)"); SQLiteDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader(); DataTable dt = new DataTable(); dt.Load(reader); reader.Close(); The problem is that dt.Rows.Count is way lower than what running the same statement in the SQLite CLI produces. The reason The reason is that DataTable complains about an invalid constraint on the "b1" column. Why? Because "b1" has a unique index in "b" and for some reason DataTable doesn't like it when you get to entries with the same value for that column regardless that it is perfectly legal when joining tables. The workaround I have no idea if this is a problem with SQLite or the AdoNet SQLite wrapper, and I haven't tried other databases to see if this is not a problem with SQLite at all. The workaround, however, is this: SELECT a.a1, b.b1 + 0 FR...