your mileage may vary

jə ˈmaɪlədʒ meɪ ˈvɛəɹi

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#1·6h ago

(North America, idiomatic, often, computing) It may work differently in your situation, or be different in your experience.

The battery lasts a day in my phone, but your mileage may vary.

Origin: [[File:Auto fuel gauge.jpg|thumb|The fuel gauge of an automobile]] The United States Environmental Protection Agency requires all new vehicles to undergo a set of standard emissions tests which simulate city and highway driving. Part of the test measures estimated city and highway gas (petrol) mileage estimates. Since no test can exactly simulate all driving habits and conditions, the actual gas mileage of each vehicle will vary. As a result, when these estimated mileage claims from automobile manufacturers appear in advertisements, they are almost always accompanied with the standard discl. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·6h ago

(North America, idiomatic) : this is just my opinion, your opinion may be different.

When that definition is executed, the metadata for the temporary table is put into your schema (most likely—your mileage may vary), but no space is allocated to hold data.

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