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- An Explanation-Based, Visual Debugger for Spreadsheet-Like Constraints
- This paper describes a domain-specific debugger for one-way constraint solvers. The debugger makes use of several new techniques. First, the debugger displays only a portion of the dataflow graph, called a constraint slice, that is directly related to an incorrect variable. This technique helps the debugger scale to a system...
- Tags: Technique, Constraint, Variable, Spreadsheet, Productivity
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- Using SQL Server 2005 Integration Services variables from a Script Task
- If you've written a SQL Server 2005 Integration Services SSIS package that uses variables, you may have occasion to manipulate those variables within a Visual Basic script task. Unlike much of SSIS, there's not really a visual editor to help you with this part. In my opinion, the process is...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, Variable, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Rex Baldazo
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Creating variables in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
- SQL Server 2005 Integration Services SSIS is really well thought out in terms of how it supports user-created variables inside the packages you create. It is, however, not always that intuitive how to create, consume, and manipulate those variables. So I'm going to take my next couple of blog posts...
- Tags: Task, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, Variable, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Rex Baldazo
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Train users to follow best practices when writing VBA code
- If you train users to do a little coding on their own, they may not hit you up with as many development requests. I think that teaching users Visual Basic for Applications VBA is a good place to start because it's easy to learn. VBA lets you automate tasks and...
- Tags: Solution, Procedure, Data, Statement, Variable, Code, Microsoft VBA, Best Practice, Value, Error, Figure E, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- E-Mail Commander for Windows (exe)
- E-Mail Commander lets you send out uniquely customized e-mails to everyone in your database. Insert variables in your contact database to further customize each message on the fly. Include current date/time, dates, nicknames, addresses, phone numbers, or pretty much any other field you could dream up. Even insert a special...
- Tags: Database, Phone, Variable, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Storage, Online Communications, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-01-28
- Ka Type In (exe)
- Ka Type In is a smart and reliable application that lets you define frequently used text snippets, ready to be typed into any application, document, web form. Just create a set of items, like e-mail addresses, zip code, phone number, etc. and you'll never have to type it again. In...
- Tags: Phone, Variable, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-01-11
- Adventures in Arrays: A Beginning Tutorial
- In SAS, an array is simply a way to refer to a group of variables in one observation with a single name. Think of an array as being an alias for the names of SAS variables on which one need to perform the same task. The variables can be existing...
- Tags: Variable, SAS Institute
- White papers 2007-03-13
- Filter mail with powerful procmail
- Procmail is perhaps one of the most powerful mail filtering programs available. It plugs in seamlessly with fetchmail and can do an amazing number of things, including simply filtering mail into various mailboxes, forwarding mail to another account, or executing programs. Procmail is powerful and complex, and...
- Tags: Mailbox, Variable, Procmail, E-mail, Linux, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Vincent Danen
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Using user-defined variables in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services packages
- You can use system variables throughout SQL Server 2005 Integration Services SSIS packages. However, system variables reveal very useful package-related data, but they do not provide enough programming flexibility. Find out how you can define your own custom variables inside of SSIS packages, and how you can use these variables...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Variable, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, System Variable, SSIS, Figure B Here, Figure E Figure F, Figure H Here, Tim, Databases, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Tim Chapman
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Using system variables in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services applications
- The use of variables is vital to any type of program, and SQL Server 2005 Integration Services SSIS is no different. SSIS has been drastically improved over DTS in SQL Server 2000 to provide much better support for the use of variables. This tutorial describes how to use the built-in SSIS...
- Tags: Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Auditing, Variable, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, System Variable, SSIS, Tim, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tim Chapman
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Sometimes a variables table is better than hard coding into a package
- When writing PL/SQL packages, there are times where it's better to store a variable in a table instead of coding it into the package. It's most useful for a variable that you might want to change fairly often. If you put such a variable directly in the package (either...
- Tags: Variable, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Rex Baldazo
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Essential ActionScript 3.0: Static Variables and Static Methods
- Static variables, by contrast, are variables associated with a class itself, rather than a particular instance of that class. Static variables are used to keep track of information that relates logically to an entire class, as opposed to information that varies from instance to instance. For example, a class representing...
- Tags: Variable, Games, Personal Technology
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Passing table valued parameters in SQL Server 2008
- I have always wanted to be able to pass table variables to stored procedures. If a variable is able to be declared, it should have the functionality to be passed as necessary.I was thrilled to learn that SQL Server 2008 offers this functionality. Here are instructions on how to pass...
- Tags: Database, Procedure, Microsoft SQL Server, Data, Variable, Table, Tim Chapman
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- Using Dependent Variables in Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS
- Tivoli Workload Schedule for z/OS TWSz provides variable support. This support allows TWSz predefined and user defined variables to be used in jobs scheduled by TWSz. TWSz will translate these variables prior to submitting the JCL to JES. This allows numerous possibilities to enhance the job scheduling environment and can...
- Tags: Variable, IBM z/OS, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, IBM Corp., TWSz, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Recruitment & Selection, Servers, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-08-08
- In the Compute Block: Issues Associated With Using and Naming Variables
- In the compute block of the PROC REPORT step variables can be both created and used. They may be on the incoming data table, they may be computed in the REPORT step, they can be statistical summaries, and they may even be artificially created by the REPORT process. In the...
- Tags: Variable
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Adamant Key Mouse Pro (exe)
- Hot Mouse: give you extra 9 Hot Mouse clickings for any a 3 buttons mouse to invoke any of your commissions macros to run just like hundreds of Hotkeys do. Smart Wait for Hotkeys/Hot Mouse, wait for text/image windows display, wait for text/image windows close. DO-if function can chose the...
- Tags: Mouse, Variable, ImageSkill, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2007-04-05
- Weekly Key Indicator Report (zip)
- The weekly key indicator report is designed to help the business owner track all the key variables in their business on a weekly basis. This simple sheet brings together all the key variables that change over time in any business. The business owner should review these key variables on a...
- Tags: Variable, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales
- Software downloads 2007-03-19
- Learn how to declare variables in your program to use the least amount of memory and produce fast-running code
- Although assembly language programmers usually have a good feel for the connection between variables and memory locations, high-level languages tend to add sufficient abstraction to obscure this relationship. In this sample chapter from Write Great Code, Volume 2: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level, explore the low-level implementation of...
- Tags: Variable, Memory, Chapter Coverage, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2007-03-07
- Gray Simulator (zip)
- Gray Simulator is OPC Server that can be useful in OPC Clients debugging. Gray Simulator provides a set of various OPC tags: harmonic waves; triangle waves; square waves; ramps; random numbers and logical variables; random strings; random dates; enumerations; storage registers of different types. This OPC simulator is fully compliant...
- Tags: Variable, String, Gray Simulator, Storage, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-02-13
- Trixon BRC - Bitrate Calculator (exe)
- A bitrate calculator that allows you to change one of the four variables, audio bitarate / video bitrate / Length / file size and immediately shows you the result. Trixon BRC show the values in a way so you will see the connection between the variables. It automatically saves the...
- Tags: Variable, Value, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2006-09-15
