Best way to share content across multiple web sites

2002-11-05 Thread Vishal Narayan
A recruitment web site we are working on is looking into a content sharing agreement with a large portal. Essentially we want to publish brief job listing details (job title, company name, brief description) on the portal which then link back to a co-branded page or display our content on

SQL problem : Full-text indexing doesn't work on MS Word docs !!!!

2002-10-16 Thread Vishal Narayan
I am using SQL 2000, and as per the docs, I should be able to create Full-text indexes on MS Word docs stored in image columns. Just to test this, I created a new table, and used the TEXTCOPY application to add around 20 rows in it, one word document per row. The table schema is as follows :

SQL Question - Full-text indexing MS-WORD docs

2002-10-02 Thread Vishal Narayan
My coldfusion web application uses a SQL 2000 DB on Win 2K server. Presently, we are storing resumes of registered candidates in our database, the table being used has the following design : USER_ID int 4 ENTRY_DATE datetime8

FuseTalk problems - logging in with external database !

2002-09-19 Thread Vishal Narayan
I am currently evaluating FuseTalk version 3.1 on my development environment, which is CF 4.5.1 SP2 with IIS5 on Win 2K Server, and SQL 2000 DB. I followed their instructions and set up FuseTalk to work with SQL 2000 DB, and using 'External User Database' and 'External Authentication Method',

ColdFusion Schedule hangs then times out !!!

2002-09-12 Thread Vishal Narayan
Has anybody experienced this problem with the ColdFusion Scheduler ? I am not using cfschedule, just have created the schedule to run daily in ColdFusion Administrator. It's a highly database-intensive process, which dynamically generates and sends out daily email alerts. 9 times out of 10,

Need recommendation for a good SQL forum

2002-09-09 Thread Vishal Narayan
Can somebody advise me on a good SQL Server forum, where I may get some help on my query performance optimisation issues ? I have tried posting on the forums at www.sqlmag.com, http://www.sqlteam.com and http://www.swynk.com, but no response on any of these. They do not appear to be very

SQL stored proc pushing up CPU to 100%

2002-09-04 Thread Vishal Narayan
Our SQL 2000 DB runs on a Win 2K Server, which is a PIII, 500 MHz machine, having 512 MB RAM and 30 GB Hard Drive. There is an application that searches for keyword matches in our database, and calls a stored procedure to perform the actual query. The tables being used are small, approx

Missing form fields - anyone experienced this error ?

2002-08-29 Thread Vishal Narayan
Has anyone else experienced these missing form data errors ? These are not due to improper bookmarking, or due to browser having JavaScript disabled. The form field exists, but on submittting, is somehow not available to the next page. These occur randomly, and therefore cannot be a coding

Installation of latest MDAC on CF4.5 SP2 - required or not ??

2002-08-28 Thread Vishal Narayan
Recently, my ColdFusion application.log has started showing a few messages like this: Error,TID=1060,08/28/02,09:42:04,CFSCHEDULE,unknown exception conditionP PCodeRuntimeContextImp::executeSQLTagCFQuery::endTagpThe error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of

CFSCHEDULE - unknown exception condition

2002-08-27 Thread Vishal Narayan
I've been having frequent problems with a mailing schedule that I've set up in ColdFusion Administrator. It is quite database intensive, has a fair bit of string manipulation, and involves generating around 3 - 5K emails daily. Nowadays, more and more frequently, I find the execution hangs in

CFSCHEDULE - unknown exception condition

2002-08-27 Thread Vishal Narayan
I've been having frequent problems with a mailing schedule that I've set up in ColdFusion Administrator. It is quite database intensive, has a fair bit of string manipulation, and involves generating around 3 - 5K emails daily. Nowadays, more and more frequently, I find the execution hangs in

CFSCHEDULE - unknown exception condition (more details)

2002-08-27 Thread Vishal Narayan
Some further analysis shows that at the same time that the error was logged in my coldfusion server application.log file, there was also an entry in my Win 2K server's event viewer application.log file : Event Type: Information Event Source: DrWatson Event Category: None Event ID:

Strange message in webserver.log

2002-08-18 Thread Vishal Narayan
My webserver.log file shows the following message : Error,TID=1652,08/18/02,08:37:42,Web server provided content data when none was expected. Data ignored. Does anyone know what this means ? We are running CF 4.5 SP2 with IIS 5 on WIN 2K Server, and SQL 2000 DB. Vishal.

ColdFusion Schedule hangs then times out

2002-08-12 Thread Vishal Narayan
Has anybody experienced this problem with the ColdFusion Scheduler ? I am not using cfschedule, just have created the schedule to run daily in ColdFusion Administrator. It's a highly database-intensive process, which dynamically generates and sends out emails. 9 times out of 10, it runs fine,

ColdFusion Scheduler creates hung process

2002-07-31 Thread Vishal Narayan
I saw a post on this forum regarding a cfexecute problem where if you: (1) Don't specify an output file (2) Get a long output from your executable then you get a hung process on your server. Has anybody experienced a similar problem with the ColdFusion Scheduler ? I am not using cfschedule,

ColdFusion Scheduler creates hung process

2002-07-31 Thread Vishal Narayan
I saw a post on this forum regarding a cfexecute problem where if you: (1) Don't specify an output file (2) Get a long output from your executable then you get a hung process on your server. Has anybody experienced a similar problem with the ColdFusion Scheduler ? I am not using cfschedule,

Session Managment- across application servers

2002-07-31 Thread Vishal Narayan
I have my site developed in ColdFusion. I need to integrate this with a message forum application written entirely in ASP. I need to pass session information from my .cfm templates to the message forum. Essentially, if a person is logged in on the site, they should be logged in on the forum as

ColdFusion based message Forum ?

2002-07-31 Thread Vishal Narayan
Can anybody recommend a good freeware message forum written purely in ColdFusion ? It should be possible to integrate it with a SQL 2000 DB. Has anyone evaluated or is using FuseTalk (http://www.e-zonemedia.com/) ? Any comments ? Vishal

Need to prevent javascript from being submitted in form

2002-07-22 Thread Vishal Narayan
I have a form with a number of text and textarea fields. Information submitted is then written to a SQL Server Database. I want to prevent users from typing in potentially malicious javascript in any of these fields. One option is to loop through all the submitted form variables before

Need to prevent javascript from being submitted in form

2002-07-22 Thread Vishal Narayan
I have a form with a number of text and textarea fields. Information submitted is then written to a SQL Server Database. I want to prevent users from typing in potentially malicious javascript in any of these fields. One option is to loop through all the submitted form variables before

Query on text column - how to improve performance ?

2002-07-01 Thread Vishal Narayan
In one of my stored procs, I have a query that performs a keyword search (keywords are always strings) on many columns, and returns the resultset. The query is as folllows: SELECT a.cnd_id, a.cnd_update_date FROM candidatemaster a inner join candidateresume b on a.cnd_id = b.cnd_id WHERE

Cfswitch cfcase vs. elseifs performancewise

2002-06-26 Thread Vishal Narayan
Our site has around15-20 different e-mails (all dynamically generated) that are triggered off based on different user actions, such as registration, unsubscribing etc. All the e-mails on our site are being sent out using one single template, i.e. the template is called using cfmodule with an

Exception thrown by CFX_POP3

2002-06-13 Thread Vishal Narayan
CFX_POP3 is a freeware that is supposed to take care of the problems with CFPOP. I have written a coldfusion template that uses CFX_POP3 to log into an external POP server and download the header information. This has been scheduled to run every 15 minutes. Most of the time, it works as

Problems with upgrade to CF5 (URGENT!)

2002-05-02 Thread Vishal Narayan
We attempted to upgrade our development server - which is running CF4.5 and SQL2000 on a Win 2K Server to CF5 . On completing the installation and doing the configuration settings as described in the documentation, we are unable to view the ColdFusion Administrator or any other templates. In

Get list of tables from a SQL Server DB

2002-04-25 Thread Vishal Narayan
Is there any way I can get the list of tables in a SQL 2000 DB programmatically ? I guess what I need is a limited form of sp_help, as long as it just gives me all the user-created tables, system tables not required. Vishal.

CFPOP - problem with replyto field

2002-04-24 Thread Vishal Narayan
We are using CFPOP to log into an external POP server and download the header information. CFPOP SERVER=mail.mycompany.net USERNAME=myusername PASSWORD=mypassword ACTION=GetHeaderOnly NAME=Sample CFOUTPUT QUERY=Sample

Upgrade from CF4.5 SP2 To CF5

2002-04-24 Thread Vishal Narayan
I am currently running CF 4.5 SP2 with IIS5, Win 2K Server and SQL 2000 DB. I plan to upgrade to CF5. Would anyone like to share their experiences on having performed a similar upgrade ? What we really need are suggestions for a migration plan to help us move over smoothly to the new version

Need SQL Server version of createtable_Access

2002-04-23 Thread Vishal Narayan
I found on the Allaire Developer's Exchange a custom tag called createtable_Access, which allows me to create a table in any MS Access ODBC datasource accessible through ColdFusion, in which we can define Primary Key, Required fields (Not Null), and Unique values. What I need is a SQL Server

Getting pages Timed Out

2002-04-17 Thread Vishal Narayan
Our ColdFusion Logs show pages getting timed out - it seems to happen at times of high traffic. We would like to be able to troubleshoot the source of the problem. We have set the max number of simultaneous requests in ColdFusion Administrator to 15. Supposing we have a 16th simultaneous

Custom tag for importing data

2002-04-15 Thread Vishal Narayan
Does anyone know of any custom tags /applications that allow importing data from : 1. CSV files 2. Excel Spreadsheets 3. MS Access into one of the following formats: 1. Ms Access 2. SQL 2000 Yes, I know that we can do this directly in Excel, Access and SQL 2000 itself. But I want to be able

Prevent JavaScript timer from re-initialising on refresh

2002-04-12 Thread Vishal Narayan
We have created an online assessment on our site, in some ways similar to the BrainBench online tests. It is a dynamic page and it submits back to itself. We use a JavaScript function to work as a timer - the countdown is shown in the bottom status bar. window.status=Time left = + counter +

CF - Problem with missing Form Data

2002-04-10 Thread Vishal Narayan
We are using CF4.5 with IIS5 on W2K server and SQL 2000 DB for our website. I have a big problem with users getting random errors about missing parameters - either form data or url parameters. The required form fields are validated for using javascript, which ensures that the problem is not

Re: CF - Problem with missing Form Data

2002-04-10 Thread Vishal Narayan
page (at the top), just to make sure you are in fact getting the fieldnames. - Original Message - From: Vishal Narayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 8:42 PM Subject: CF - Problem with missing Form Data We are using CF4.5 with IIS5 on W2K

Re: CF - Problem with missing Form Data

2002-04-10 Thread Vishal Narayan
page (at the top), just to make sure you are in fact getting the fieldnames. - Original Message - From: Vishal Narayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 8:42 PM Subject: CF - Problem with missing Form Data We are using CF4.5 with IIS5 on W2K