by Dina Hess
| Title: | Load Testing |
| Date: | 06/14/03 1 Post |
| Summary: | Here's an informative overview of load testing along with a resource to tutorials on the subject. |
| Title: | How to Ask for the Correct Title in CFIF? |
| Date: | 06/14/03 3 Posts |
| Summary: | This brief exchange packs a lot of punch. It contains solid advice about normalizing data and offloading the task of returning a valid CFMAIL salutation to the DBMS. Note that a CASE statement in the database layer replaces a series of CFIFs in the presentation layer...a definite performance boost. |
| Title: | DBAs/SQL Server Experts? |
| Date: | 06/15/03 23 Posts |
| Summary: | If you detach a SQL Server database so it can be copied, be sure to reattach it and reset its connection parameters on the destination server. This thread also includes instructions for configuring a SQL Server data source in CFMX without going through the ODBC Socket. |
| Title: | Base64 Encoded Email |
| Date: | 06/15/03 2 Posts |
| Summary: | To convert Base64 encoded data into a readable string, first convert it to binary data with ToBinary(). You can then apply ToString() to convert the binary data to a string, like this: ToString(ToBinary(Base64_encoded_string)) This thread also references a first-rate Macromedia resource about "Using ColdFusion Variables." |