(Carlos Valcarcel) Last time we crawled a file system and indexed that content. In doing so we discovered that the SharePoint crawler also submits the folders of the file system to the index and Fast gladly adds them. This means that the search results can appear crowded
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Application Setting Events
(Richard Carr) Application settings provide a useful means for configuring applications and retaining user settings between program executions. When it is necessary to monitor those settings for changes, four standard events can be subscribed to.
Populating Values From XML to a DataGridView and From a DataGridView to XML Using C#
(Santhosh Kumar) This document covers how to populate a DataGridView from XML and how to save DataGridView values back to XML.
Code Naming Conventions
Database Naming – One Last Time I had some good thoughts come through from a few readers today that I felt were helpful and touched on areas we haven’t really covered at this point. So, I’ll drop them in here without comment, and move on with the discussion about code naming conventions in the editorial section. Ken provides some thoughts […]
Foreign Key Names
Foreign Key Names Today Thomas shares his thoughts on constraint names as well as indexes: For Foreign keys I use FK_PARENTTABLE_parentcol1_parentcol2_CHILDTABLE_childcolum1_childcolumn2 Currently, we don’t have any keys more complex than 2 columns and we are well under the 128 character limit. Our child column names are usually the same as their parent’s so I’ll probably resort to some kind of […]
Manipulating the DOM, Google Closure vs. jQuery
Comparing closure to jQuery is like comparing an apple to a fruit basket.
Two Views Regarding How to Apply the Semantic Web
(Angela Guess) Rob Gonzalez has written a new online lesson discussing the two views of how to apply the semantic web. He explains, “Various authors and practitioners have radically different view on how best to apply Semantic Web technologies.
How Semantic Web Technologies Can be Used for Programmable Web API Search
(Knarig Arabshian) Service discovery is not an easy task in today’s Web. Discovering an API requires searching through a large number of services on the Internet and then reading pages of documentation to figure out how to use the ones that may match your application.
Transforming Event Log Data
(Chad Miller) Several months ago I described a solution for Delegated SQL Server Administration with Powershell. In the solution, the SqlProxy module audits all security administration activity to a custom Windows Event log. In this blog post, I’ll described a process to transform and incrementally
A Few Cool Things You Can Identify Using the Default Trace
(Greg Larsen) If you are running an instance of SQL Server 2005 and above then most likely that instance is running the default trace. This default trace is a canned Profiler server side trace that automatically starts up when SQL Server starts.