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Breaking a site with Multi-Mechanize

Posted by Crispin Flower 28 December 2011 Categories: IIS Load-testing Python SQL Server

In my previous post I got started with Multi-Mechanize and established that it is a useful tool for load-testing web sites. Next I tried it on a real site that we are currently building – the new... read more

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Trying out Multi-Mechanize web performance and load testing framework

Posted by Crispin Flower 27 December 2011 Categories: IIS mojoPortal Python

Information and download from http://code.google.com/p/multi-mechanize/ UPDATE 14th March 2012: now moved to http://testutils.org/multi-mechanize Multi-Mechanize is an open source... read more

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MS Access DAO recordset + SQL Server: how to get the ID of a newly inserted record

Posted by Crispin Flower 23 December 2011 Categories: HBSMR MS Access SQL Server VBA

Sometimes when inserting records programmatically you want to create a parent record first, then add records into related tables where the Foreign Key is on an autonumber field. Therefore you need to ... read more

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SQL Server 2005: how to allow remote connections

Posted by Crispin Flower 08 December 2011 Categories: SQL Server

When running instances of SQL Server on laptops/PCs, it can be troublesome allowing others on the network to connect to them. Keith Westcott has written up this guide. Obviously paths may need to be... read more

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ArcGIS 10 - tips to improve editing responsiveness

Posted by Steve Ellwood 08 December 2011 Categories: ArcGIS

If you are experiencing poor performance/responsiveness whilst editing features in ArcGIS v10 this can in many cases be remedied by turning off the new snapping tools, which are on as default in... read more

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