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Hello guys.
I have links to asp pages on the HTML page and each time I clink on the link, it shows a save-open dialog box instead of opening the page.
Is there something I did wrong???
Please help!!
kagiso
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I think you might just be in the wrong forum...
Try the web development forum instead.
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Hi,
Have you started your web server? (For Example, IIS).
Try first to start your web server and then again check. It should work.
Because, for simple html pages you require only browser, but for asp pages you require a web server.
JKOZA
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Please do not entertain people who feel lazy in getting to the correct forum and posting there. It is becoming an increasing menace elevating the debris all over.
Unless we have the whips in place and make the processes more stringent, this would become more and more a mess. 
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There is almost certainly an infinity of things you did wrong. Among them: Posting to this forum.
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Now I don't pretend to know it all, so when I have questions I'm prepared to ask someone who might already have encountered a similar problem and listen to their suggestions. Unlike the muppets I work for.
Today's project saw me looking at the feasibility of porting an existing Access database to SQL Server. Easy, thought I, but then I actually saw the "database" in question.
To give you just one example of the horrors I'm looking at:
The "Machine" table has a "Date Added" column. Now, if you're like me, you'd expect this to be a DateTime column. So I was surprised to see this as a numeric field featuring values such as 1,2,3,4 etc. I was even more surprised to see that this field is related to a "DateAdded" table, whose sole purpose is to give index values to dates. It currently has a seperate entry for each and every day up to 31/12/2015. 
"It was the day before today.... I remember it like it was yesterday."
-Moleman
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That's abnormalization right there. I assume this is some weird Y2.016K issue here.
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martin_hughes wrote:
Yeah, totally. What was the reasoning behind it?
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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I shall endeavour to find out... but I fear the answer 
"It was the day before today.... I remember it like it was yesterday."
-Moleman
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That's similar to an Excel-based puddle-of-crap I have to support now. Each worksheet has entries for dates up to early this September, there's a formula for determining which row to work on for each date. The problem is that I don't think I can add more rows, so to extend the supported timeframe I'll have to delete the oldest data.
Be glad you are at least dealing with a ::cough:: database ::cough::.
"Always look on the bright side of life." -- Monty Python
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I'm sort of going off on a tangent here, but this reminds me of a most excellent Dilbert stripe a while ago. The pointy-haired boss has called an engineer into his office and says:
Boss: My spreadsheet shows your job performance hasn't been very good lately.
Engineer: Perhaps your spreadsheet is poorly conceived and does not capture the complexity of the real world.
Boss: (silence)
Engineer: And let's not forget the near certainty that your formulae are pointing to the wrong cells.
Cracked me up!
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Is there a DateUpdated table too, or do the two columns share a table, Gasp! You need to fix any such rampant denormalization before you migrate the "database"
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Andy Brummer wrote: fix any such rampant denormalization before you migrate the "database"
Right on. Anyone up for denormalizing? 
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Andy Brummer wrote: You need to fix any such rampant denormalization before you migrate the "database"
Having spent a couple of hours ruminating, I'm thinking about returing an "unfeasible" on this feasability report
"It was the day before today.... I remember it like it was yesterday."
-Moleman
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Have you thought of beginning the report with the phrase "Oh my God! What idiot..."??
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Have you thought of beginning the report with the phrase "Oh my God! What idiot..."?
I am sure that would go over well with some PHB management wienie..
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Paul Conrad wrote: wienie..
The key word being "wienie". If he/she's a wienie, then they have no sense of humor and I would have to leave the company because of this personal condition, which I find hostile to my own creativity and motivation.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: If he/she's a wienie, then they have no sense of humor and I would have to leave the company because of this personal condition, which I find hostile to my own creativity and motivation.
I hear ya. I cannot imagine going through life without having a daily hearty laugh. I usually denote those kind of laughs in these forums with
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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To bad you can't tell them...
"I took it out behind the barn and shot it. Now I'm writing a brand spanking-new database."
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TheDailyWTF taught me that a "Date" table as such is not uncommon in business applications.
Since it's expensive to calculate holidays, business days, etc. they are calculated upfront and put into a date table that aids queries such as "next business day after" (maybe through a trigger when adding a previously unknown date, or through a script generating all dates up to 2015).
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Yikes!
Although I can see a specific reason for adding a calendar of company holidays, what you've found out scares me silly! Afterall, I might encounter more of this shite in the years to come!
"It was the day before today.... I remember it like it was yesterday."
-Moleman
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Actually, I found the most interesting exercise in reading TDWTF is reading the comments until someone comes up with a perfectly possible situation where the horrid solution is the one/usual/only/common way to go.
martin_hughes wrote: Afterall, I might encounter more of this shite in the years to come!
Love waht you can't change
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martin_hughes wrote: Yikes!
Exactly what I thought after reading the post by peterchen. People must think it is better to have a lookup table rather than computing the dates...
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Oh, well that's alright then. But the keys should be GUIDs and there should be additional columns to indicate whether it's a government or religious holiday (and if religious, then which) and all sorts of things like that... Sounds like my NumberAttribute class (or whatever the name is).
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