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Refers generally to the process of moving data from an external source into one's platform, program, or data set.

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How to include a JavaScript file in another JavaScript file?

Is there something similar to @import in CSS in JavaScript that allows you to include a JavaScript file inside another JavaScript file?
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What is the difference between #import and #include in Objective-C?

What are the differences between #import and #include in Objective-C and are there times where you should use one over the other? Is one deprecated? I was reading the following tutorial: ...
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Quickly reading very large tables as dataframes in R

I have very large tables that I would like to load as a dataframes in R. read.table() has a lot of convenient features, but it seems like there is a lot of logic in the implementation that would slow ...
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Why is using a wild card with a Java import statement bad?

It is much more convenient and cleaner to use a single statement like import java.awt.*; than to import a bunch of individual classes import java.awt.Panel; import java.awt.Graphics; import ...
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CSV File Imports in .Net [closed]

I realize this is a newbie question, but I'm looking for a simple solution - it seems like there should be one. What's the best way to import a CSV file into a strongly-typed data structure? Again ...
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Dynamically load a JavaScript file (think of #include in C)

How can you reliably and dynamically load a JavaScript file? This will can be used to implement a module or component that when 'initialized' the component will dynamically load all needed JavaScript ...
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Stop Excel from automatically converting certain text values to dates

Does anyone happen to know if there is a token I can add to my csv for a certain field so Excel doesn't try to convert it to a date? I'm trying to write a .csv file from my application and one of the ...
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Import / Export database with SQL Server Server Management Studio

I thought this would be trivial, but it isn't... I'm sure there is a simple way to do it but I can't manage to find it. Shame on me. I want to import/export the database itself, the tables, the ...
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Any reason to clean up unused imports in Java, other than reducing clutter?

Is there any good reason to avoid unused import statements in Java? As I understand it, they are there for the compiler, so lots of unused imports won't have any impacts on the compiled code. Is it ...
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remove unused import from eclipse

Is there any way to automatic remove all unused import (signaled with a warning) of a project with Eclipse IDE?
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In Node.js, how do I “include” functions from my other files?

Let's say I have a file called app.js. Pretty simple: var express = require('express'); var app = express.createServer(); app.set('views', __dirname + '/views'); app.set('view engine', 'ejs'); ...
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Difference between @import and link in CSS

I'm learning some CSS to tweak my project template. I come to this problem and didn't find a clear answer on the web. Is there a difference between using @import or link in CSS? Use of @import ...
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How do I export (and then import) a Subversion repo?

I'm just about wrapped up on a project where I was using a commercial SVN provider to store the source code. The web host the customer ultimately picked includes a repository as part of the hosting ...
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How do you run a 300mb+ MS SQL .sql file?

I use RedGate SQL data compare and generate a .sql file so i can run it on my local machine but the problem is the file is over 300mb and i can't do copy and paste because the clipboard won't able to ...
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Change Name of Import in Java, or import two classes with the same name

In Python you can do a: from a import b as c How would you do this in Java, as I have two imports that are clashing.

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