Best of Talk (6/5/03)

 
May 29, 2003

by Dina Hess

Title: XML Parsing
Date: 06/05/03      17 Posts
Summary: When improperly formatted ampersands in an XML document cause problems with an RSS feed, several developers recommend XMLSpy to quickly detect XML problems. There is also a discussion on the correct use of XMLFormat() and an excellent "visual" illustrating how XMLFormat() can invalidate an XML document.
 
Title: Boolean Performance Question...
Date: 06/05/03      10 Posts
Summary: Wondering which boolean expression performs better? Although the consensus is that <cfif x> performs best, assuming x is boolean, that's not what the results of a performance test show. Take a look at the surprising results of a test running 100,000 iterations on both CF 5 and Red Sky.
 
Title: SQL Concat
Date: 06/05/03      Posts
Summary: Need to concatenate two variables in SQL Server? If the data types are different - and are not ntext, image, or text - you will need to use CAST or CONVERT to do an expicit conversion. Otherwise, you can just use the "+" operator.
 

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