Two years ago I started supporting a Classic ASP application that used SQL 2000 for the data base. One of the complaints of the owner was that the previous person supporting the application did not keep track of program changes. The development environment was undocumented. A test system existed but it was in an unknown [...]
SQL Server and Subversion
April 10th, 2010 · No Comments · sql
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Top free tools for Windows server administration
April 9th, 2009 · No Comments · IIS, sql
Every so often you find a tool you have never heard of. This week the tool that caught my attention was Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL). It was recommended by Bruce Mackenzie-Low in a newsletter from SearchWindowsServer.com and it looks it will be helpful with the “art” of performance analysis. I played with it a [...]
Re-engineering an application
June 8th, 2008 · No Comments · programming
Recently I found myself trying to debug an active server page application. It appears to be a simple application. When you go to the page, the server generates a text file which I call a data feed. It is used by search engines to build links to your products. The final step in the process [...]
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