Introduction

Welcome to the new face of data-conversion.org. I'm currently updating the site to use a CMS, and you'll find quite a few changes happening in the next few weeks.
The previously available online conversion routines are still available from the links in the sidebar on the right, and I hope that you enjoy the news syndication topics that are part of our new design.
If you have any suggestions about additional feeds we could integrate, be it from a blog or other sources, please drop us a comment.

Regex help

I have a script as below. " system("typeperf \"\\Processor\(\*\)\\% C1 Time\" -sc 1 > C1.txt"); system("typeperf \"\\Processor\(\*\)\\% C2 Time\" -sc 1 > C2.txt"); system("typeperf \"\\Processor\(\*\)\\% C3 Time\" -sc 1 > C3.txt"); sleep 1; open C1, "<C1.txt"; $C1_CONTENT = do { local $/; <C1> }; print "$C1_CONTENT\n";"

oerr and beyond

Oracle Error messaging system is often forgotten but can become a staple for many DBAs

Direct load mystery

A colleague of mine contacted me with the following issue. She's loading data, large quantities of it, into a 64-bit Oracle 10.2.0.5 on SUN Slowaris (should I say Oracle Slowaris?). She noticed that there is a significant increase in performance if the transit tables she's loading the data into are analyzed after they're truncated, immediately before

IBM Content Analytics Version 2.1: Discovering Actionable Insight from Your Content

Redbook, published: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 - Learn about Content Analytics and its value to your organization - See how to discover actionable insight from your content - Understand key product features and offerings With IBM® Content Analytics Version 2.1, you can unlock the value of unstructured content and gain new business insight.

Battling Browsers

Even in a web environment, your code is only as cross platform as to the amount of effort you put into accommodating the various platform combinations. Some JavaScript functions (for example) simply do not work with all browsers...