by MichaelF on April 10, 2007
In cases where business applications have been built on open source databases, it may be necessary to connect other Windows applications, such as Microsoft Access or Excel, to these databases for reporting or business intelligence purposes.
One potential application of this process is to use Excel as a front-end for data analysis. Data can be pulled from views or tables and then further analyzed... more
- Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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by jcannon on March 16, 2007
MySQL is an open source relational database management system which is typically used for light-weight web applications. This paper will provide an overview of configuring & intalling this software on Windows. MySQL does not have as many features as PostgreSQL, however, and one would expect it to perform substantially better than PostgreSQL on Windows because of its thread-based architecture (PostgreSQL... more
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by jcannon on July 11, 2006
So, this weeks tech tip is about memtest, and yes, I am sure there are some that might scoff at this....But I think we have a tendency to loose sight of the basics. For instance, last week we had quite an interesting time debugging a problem that occurred intermittently and we where not able to find a way to consistently reproduce the problem. We ran through all kinds of things until we decided for... more
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