Our software manages a lot of data feeds from various sources: real time replicated databases, files FTPed automatically, scheduled running of database stored procedures to cache snapshots of data from linked servers and numerous other methods of acquiring data. We need to verify and validate this data: has an import even happened i...
I need to take production data with real customer info (names, address, phone numbers, etc) and move it into a dev environment, but I'd like to remove any semblance of real customer info. Some of the answers to this question can help me generating NEW test data, but then how do I replace those columns in my production data, but keep the...
I'm accepting a string from a feed for display on the screen that may or may not include some rubbish I want to filter out. I don't want to filter normal symbols at all. The values I want to remove look like this: � It is only this that I want removed. Relevant technology is PHP. Suggestions appreciated. ...
I'm trying to build a bookmarklet that will get the current page/article's author and date information, for referencing purposes. I know that I can get the Page title and url with document.title and document.URL but I'm drawing a blank when it comes to the other information. Any ideas? ...