Author Archives: eSearing

About eSearing

Webdeveloper, Photographer, political junkie.

Text formatted columns problems – Mdash issue

Posted on 01/06/2011 by eSearing

Mdash in Text field causes output problems when exporting to excel. Continue reading →

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FTPS mainframe to Windows server

Posted on 12/03/2010 by eSearing

This months challenge has been to extract daily files from the mainframe down to an ftp server where we can utilize the data in SQL Server. The file names changes daily, incrementing by 1 for each generation. The files are … Continue reading →

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Dreamweaver issues

Posted on 11/10/2010 by eSearing

I was suddenly having cut/paste and save issues within dreamweaver. After about 30 minutes of search I found 2 solutions. Reinstall Dreamweaver OR – Close Dreamweaver – go to drive:documents and settingsusernameapplication datamacromediadreamweaver mx 2004 – there’s supposed to be … Continue reading →

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SQL – Synchronizing identity field between two tables

Posted on 11/05/2010 by eSearing

One thing that DBAs often have difficulty with is moving data from one database to another database. This may be to synchronize a development environment with databases or tables on other servers with the same data values. Fortunately MSSQL provides … Continue reading →

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Javascript and form style

Posted on 11/04/2010 by eSearing

You can control some form elements CSS style attributes using Javascript. This comes in handy when trying to highlight errors or disabled fields. You can use a select onChange event to disable/enable form fields. The style attributes I find most … Continue reading →

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