(Sachin A. Kadam) Data Mining can be defined as “The nontrivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown, and potentially useful information from data” and “The science of extracting useful information from large data sets or databases”. Although it is usually used in relation to analysis of data,
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Application Error Handling: How to Avoid Death by a Thousand Cuts
(Bryan Sullivan and Billy Hoffman) Conscientious developers often want to help the end user when an application error occurs by creating a message to be displayed that contains detailed information. However, if developers are overly helpful with their error handling approach, they can wind up giving
Developing for Office 2007
(Matt Nicholson) For the end user, the changes that will come with 2007 Microsoft Office System may seem limited to a bright new user interface and some useful new features. However, this new version offers the potential to transform the working life of anyone involved in implementing a project or f
Managing Standalone Scripts in PHP
(George Schlossnagle) PHP has no native support for threads, which makes it difficult for developers coming from thread-oriented languages such as Java to write programs that must accomplish multiple tasks simultaneously. All is not lost, though: PHP supports traditional Unix multitasking by allowin
Deleting archive logs
(Brian Peasland) At what stage can you safely delete archive logs? (R)
Stored Procedures with MySQL
(Shekhar Govindarajan) Most enterprise grade databases support stored procedures, which have two essential advantages. First, stored procedures reside in the database (such as tables and indexes) and the database queries in the stored procedures are executed at the database side. It yields faster re
XML data solutions with xfy and DB2 9, Part 1: Use pureXML to get the full value of your data
(Hideki Hiura) One of the key goals for many companies in using XML has been to enable the processing of a wide variety of unstructured data that cannot be effectively stored in a conventional relational database (RDB). This goal is an important one, since most of the data in an enterprise is not st
Make Your AJAX Apps Wiser Using Auto-Complete Functionality in Atlas
(Wei-Meng Lee) In my last article on Atlas, I gave you an introduction to the Atlas framework and showed you how to use the UpdatePanel control to update portions of pages without a server refresh. In this article, I’ll drive your Atlas abilities even further by showing you how to use the AutoComple
Creating Oracle-Powered SOAP Services in PHP
(John Coggeshall) The ability to provide data and functionality to other Internet-based Web applications via Web services is quickly becoming a requirement for serious development. While Oracle does provide a number of ways to host Web services, doing so is not always the most effective approach if
Getting Rich with Ajax
(Rich Schwerin) If you’ve ever used Google Maps to get directions or Flickr to share photos, you’ve seen how today’s dynamic Web applications blur the line between traditional Web and desktop applications—with no browser plug-ins or proprietary browser features required. Two of the technologies resp