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770 days ago
I came across a post from Claudia Imhoff. I totally agree that in some cases cleaning data also destroys some of information that can be derived from dirty data, and can destroy the audit trail. I usually insist on the option of minimal duplicates, this is always useful when converting things like dates and numbers from flat files, especially as the flat file data type is usually character based and that conversion process is rarely 100% reliable either due to dirty data such as 31 Feb 2007, or poor meta-data, is 05/04/2007 the 5th March 2007 or 4th May 2007. Depending on the localisation of the tool generating the data it could be either. I really like the sound of ABC tables and would like to hear from anyone with experience of implementing this, or if anyone knows of any tools for achieving such a solution.
771 days ago
If like me you could not make it along to the SQLBits conference, you do not have to completely miss out as the slide are all available here
771 days ago
Having started my life in AI and programming using PROLOG and LISP, I am please to see this announcement that not only F# going to continue to evolve and feed into mainstream programming, such as the new LINQ features of .NET 3.5, but is going to become a fully supported visual studio based language.
834 days ago
Technorati Tags: iTunes, Vista, x64, VBScript For those of you who have tried to install iTunes on Vista many of you will be aware of the awful "error code 2738", which a quick browse over the Internet point out that VBScript is disabled by default in Vista. An effort from Microsoft to shut down functionality that is commonly abused by virus writers. This being a smart move towards a more secure operating system you thing large vendors such as Apple and Adobe (apparently Photoshop CS3 has a similar issue), would be falling into line with it. Apple have acknowledged the bug and give the following workaround here; Windows Vista On the Start menu, click All Programs . Click Accessories . Right-click Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator from the shortcut menu. When the User Account Control dialog appears, click Continue . At the command prompt type the following: regsvr32 vbscript.dll Press Enter on your keyboard. ...
