Useful LaTeX Tip

I'm using TeXPoint, a Powerpoint plugin that lets you easily include LaTeX in your slides. One thing I didn't know and discovered today: if you want to include blackboard fonts, you can't use \mathBB{A}, which creates a double-outlined A. Instead, you need to use \bbA, which does the same thing.

Helpful LaTeX Math Symbol Cheat Sheet

This is the most useful LaTeX cheat sheet I've found to date. I think it's got everything I need on there, which is nice because it's tough to remember those rarely used symbols for mathematical formulas!

So Others Will Not Share My Pain

Two things I learned today:

1) LaTeX
To include a .cls stylesheet in a LaTeX document, simply place it in the same directory. Easy!

2) .NET
When making queries to very, very large tables (>>5 million tuples), if you are doing statements with aggregation, like select count(*), make sure to add the following line (in bold) after you create your command. For example:

SqlCommand getSizeCmd = new SqlCommand(tempCommand, myConnection);
getSizeCmd.CommandTimeout = 10000;

Otherwise, pain, pain pain, I tell you!

(Basically, you will get timeout errors every time.)