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MS SQL Server Fuzzy Matching
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07/16/07 06:54 AM EST
posted by Blearns email web

SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) introduces two new tools designed for Data Warehousing, but their uses are far more than just warehousing. Fuzzy Lookups and Fuzzy Grouping can both improve quality of data. Fuzzy lookups is designed to correct errors in lookup tables such as misspelling in cities or states. Fuzzy grouping finds duplicates in datasets.

Fantastic article on a great new offering in MS SQL 2005 via SSIS. However I have need for this type of matching outside of SSIS. SSIS isn't easy to tie into a webpage for on demand matching of one item against a database, but that is exactly what I need. Anyone have any experience with this new fuzzy match?

Setting innerHTML with images in Internet Explorer causes them to load one at a time
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07/02/07 09:36 PM EST
posted by JER email web

On one of my sites, I've written code that reloads entire segments of my page via AJAX requests, setting the "innerHTML" property of a div container to the returned HTML block. Due to my extremely slow server, I've noticed that any images in this HTML block load one at a time. Since I return about a hundred very small images, the result is hideous to watch.

Judging by some posts I've found around the 'net, this setting is related to my having the "check for new versions every visit to the page" cache option set in IE.

What strikes me as odd is that I'm not actually using IMG tags in that code block, just DIVS with background images set via a CSS class. Since all DIVs are using the same class, it's the same image file used in all of them. I assumed that this approach would work well with all users' cache settings -- it would load the image once (on the "visit to the page"), then reuse it multiple times for the other elements.

A shiny new donkey to anyone who can help me solve this problem!!!!

For more detail, see here.

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07/13/07 02:07 PM EST
posted by Dan

Damn it...wtf...those things are amazing!!!! the y look so .....fine ,oh my gosh!!!! who cares if they are real or not!! Those things are heavenly made hahaha...