I face a setup where we develop a data base in terms of the data
content with appropriate mining models (mostly decision trees) over
time (versions). We want to be able to keep old mining models as a
back up and for comparison reasons. However, I lack a good advice

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My day job is at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Like Google, I'd
like to help make the world a better place, so I have developed an
Excel/VBA macro which scrapes Google Search volume from a (or your)
dictionary, as well as an Excel/VBA macro for scraping pairs of

In my Cube I need to create a measure which counts the values excluding the
null values in the fact table.
Here is what I am doing.
I have added a dimension in the cube, add a column in the fact table called

I need to store and retrieve fingerprint images in SQL2005. I am using VB6 and have fields FContent as Image, FImg as varbinary(max). The varbinary(max) one fails me on my insert statement. I am attempting retrieval and i get vb error 545

I need to refer to my ftp site as a web page address as opposed to ip address. I have the ftp site on Win 2003 and its running OK using ip address.

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November 2008 --

In Visual Studio, I have my DataSet filled with several static tables (they
might get changed weekly, but that's about it).
With one of these tables in the DataSet, is it possible to select distinct
items?