Category: Using
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Outlook Taking Hours to Download Email
JIC it helps anyone else out there. For no apparent reason, Outlook 2010 started taking hours to download emails that usually came down in minutes. And when I say hours, I mean 3-5 hours! The app would remain responsive for the most part, but would consume 100% of a CPU/core. It would download a number…
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Another Downside of Browser-Based Apps
I once again find myself having to use a web-based application. This is a often just a fancy name for a bloated set of code that provides a little more functionality than what a set of CGI scripts could provide. The beauty of CGI apps was that they were often very succinct – they were…
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Why Performance is Important
When discussing topics like optimization and performance, there are far too many developers that either believe that performance is not important(!) or that the things taken to optimize the performance of something somehow magically results in making that system less robust. For the first point, I can not image any developer that has ever uttered…
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I want to meet the developer(s) of Sybase SQL Advantage…
Version: 12.5.0.3/EBF 10752 IR/P/NT (IX86)/OS 4.0/Wed Jan 15 12:59:30 2003 Why? Because I want to ask them why it takes SQL Advantage ~16 seconds to process a query that returns 674 rows of ~70 columns each and display them in Grid or Text output, when I have written an application that goes through two additional…