(Kevin Forsythe) Awhile back, I wrote a TechTip on accessing packed data from flat files. Perhaps that’s not something you do every day, but it’s definitely something that is difficult for SQL to do. That TechTip outlined the basic method for extracting the packed data. But it stopped at that point.

(Laurence Moroney) I first saw Comega about a year an a half ago when the lab that was developing it gave me a sneak preview and asked me for some feedback. The only feedback I could give at the time was “Wow!” Now, everybody can get access to this add-on to C# as Microsoft Research has released the

(Paul Meagher) Calculating Entropy for Datamining discussed the Entropy.php class, which provides web database programmers with quick access to an entropic analysis of a single database column. This article discusses the concepts of joint and conditional entropy through developing the corresponding

(Scott Mitchell) Most developers I’ve met and talked to throughout my career have shared one thing in common: their interest in solving problems and their disdain of the mundane. Boring, repetitive tasks are the bane of the development world, so much so that oftentimes programmers will spend countle