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Recently I have gone through the process of selecting a web hosting company for one of my clients. There are a lot of options out there and a number things you need to be cautious about. I will go over some of the decision points and questions you will want to ask a company before signing a contract. The first thing you need to do is define the features that make up you site. Is it made up purely of static content or does not use a database? If that is the case then you can choose just about any...
Posted On Monday, February 27, 2012 10:27 PM | Feedback (0)
While converting some MySql databases to SQL Server I ran across this function. Confused by the lack of hints to its purpose in the name I did what any red-blooded IT person would do… look it up. It turns out that this function turns the string representation of an IP address into a long integer. What good that does I am still not sure, but here is the jist of the operation. (octet1 * 256^3) + (octet2 * 256^2) + (octet3 * 256) + octet4 Simple enough, right? Now for the real question. What the heck...
Posted On Tuesday, March 22, 2011 12:18 AM | Feedback (0)
As I have been working on SQL Server Reporting Services reports the last couple of weeks I ran into a scenario where I needed to present a parent-child data layout. It is rare that I have seen a report that was a simple tabular or matrix format and this report continued that trend. I found that the processes for developing complex SSRS reports aren’t as commonly described as I would have thought. Below I will layout the process that I went through to create a solution. I started with a List control...
Posted On Monday, February 14, 2011 4:47 PM | Feedback (0)