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If you need a simple Views display switch to toggle e.g between a list and a grid display of a view, there are a couple of plug & play options already.

Please note the date of the article - it may not be current nor does it necessarily reflect the author's current opinion on the matter. See this comment.

The ability to fork is a wonderful thing.

In the open source community, the ability to fork software projects is a wonderful thing, as it allows taking a software snapshot in a completely different direction from what was intended by its current maintainers.

Why check if term is associated to a node prior to deletion?

In cases where taxonomy terms are used only for categorizing content on a Drupal powered web page, there should be no harm in deleting them. However sometimes taxonomy is used to store terms critical to the content they are referenced from and in this case steps should be taken to prevent an accidental deletion.

If you need to find out if a SQL Server instance has ForceEncryption turned on at a server level, the only reasonable way to do this is read it through the registry. You must look for:

Yes, crazy that this can happen. But sometimes you just have to live by other people’s (i.e the sysadmin’s) rules. 

Here’s some VBScript on making sure a service account stays unlocked. You can schedule it to run periodically. The account it’s run as needs permission to unlock the service account, obviously.

In 10g, if you are trying to make DDL changes on a busy object, you’re met with:

ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified

If you google how to fix this, you're told to re-run the transaction, or find out what’s locking the object. If you're trying to make schema changes on a live system in a scripted/automated way, you don't want to interfere with production processes and you need to deal with re-running the transaction in an automated way. This is the solution: