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Search Engine Safe URLs and Semantic Parameters

Mark Kruger April 22, 2008 11:41 AM Hosting and Networking Comments (4)

This topic crops up frequently in our line of work. Among the items that are often listed as important to search engines are "search engine safe" (SES) URLs. It has been pointed out that Google will index just about anything - including obscure looking URLs with cryptic parameters on them. Although this is true, we shall see that it does not exempt the developer from paying attention to the URL when he or she is thinking about search engine optimization. Let me explain.

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The Dreaded Mismatched Column or Data Type Error Revisited

Mark Kruger April 17, 2008 2:01 PM MS SQL Server, Coldfusion Troubleshooting Comments (3)

This annoying error that occurs when using JDBC and MS SQL has been around for a while. The JDBC system in Coldfusion caches information about the tables you access. If you change a table (add a column for example) the column ids get out of whack and they no longer match the correct column. For Example, the first time you run a query you might get back the following:

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