functions
TechNet Webcast: Functions, Filters, and Efficiency in Windows PowerShell (Level 200)
White Paper The attendee of this webcast will learn how to create effective and modularized code in Windows PowerShell functions and filters. The presenter explores the robust scoping rules in Windows PowerShell that enables to... [11 Dec 2008]
JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook: Variables, Functions, and Flow Control
White Paper Even simple subjects, such as JavaScript variables and functions, have numerous nuances that are easy to forget over time. This paper covers a miscellany of core JavaScript topics. A couple of these recipes may be part... [17 Oct 2007]
Extending SQL Server Reporting Services With SQL CLR Table-Valued Functions
White Paper This allows .NET Framework classes and functions to be incorporated into Transact-SQL statements and queries. This white paper describes how to take advantage of SQL CLR table-valued functions to combine... [02 Mar 2009]
Follow best practice by validating data with PHP's character type functions
White Paper This document outlines the more useful functions available in the PHP ctype extension, with explanations and usage examples. This download shows you several of the more useful functions available in the... [19 May 2006]
10 useful MySQL date and time functions
White Paper With over 50 functions in its date and time API, MySQL lets you perform all manner of interesting date and time calculations. What other date and time functions would you like to see in this download? [16 May 2006]
Summarizing Data Effectively Using New Excel 2007 Formulas and Functions
White Paper The presenter of this webcast will demonstrate the powerful new formulas and functions that let users summarize data more effectively than ever in Microsoft Office Excel 2007. The presenter will provide quick tips on the... [02 Jun 2009]
Find Help for Excel Functions
White Paper Functions are prewritten formulas that simplify the process of entering calculations. Using functions, users can quickly create formulas that might be difficult to build. Although many... [07 Nov 2008]
Mundane But Critical; How to Put Your Antivirus Functions in the Hands of the Experts
White Paper The presenter will show how Symantec Antivirus Operational Services can help to outsource key antivirus functions to Symantec experts to reduce operational costs, better manage the IT risks, and confidently meet the SLAs. [23 May 2007]
Anatomy of an Excel formula: Use built-in functions to calculate answers
White Paper This download shows you how the basic formula system works in Microsoft's Excel by examining the syntax and usage for several built-in functions, including sum, average and count. What aspects,... [25 May 2006]
MySQL in a Nutshell: Date and Time Functions
White Paper This paper presents the date and time functions for MySQL. However, by using temporal datatype columns, one can use several built-in functions offered by MySQL. The ability to record dates and times in a... [24 Oct 2007]
An Introduction to SAS Character Functions
White Paper SAS software is especially rich in its assortment of functions that deal with character data. This class of functions is sometimes called STRING functions. With over 30 new character... [02 Jun 2007]
Learning to Rank With Nonsmooth Cost Functions
White Paper This paper proposes a class of simple, flexible algorithms, called LambdaRank, which avoids these difficulties by working with implicit cost functions. The quality measures used in information retrieval are particularly... [19 Jul 2007]
Categorizing Drug Data With SAS PROC FORMAT, INPUT and PUT Functions
White Paper In this paper, a flexible SAS macro is presented for recoding drug data into groups using the SAS INPUT() and PUT() functions according to a format defined for drug codes in the FORMAT procedure. Drug data recoding is... [02 Jun 2007]
The Basics of the PRX Functions
White Paper The PRX functions and call routines let readers to use the pattern matching features of Perl 5.6.1 to do these tasks, and more. It will also show how to code the more useful PRX functions, and how to use... [09 Jun 2007]
BMC MAINVIEW for DB2 V9.2 - An Overview of New Features and Functions
White Paper Some of the topics which will be covered include; hybrid views, new thread history query functions, updated views, and more. The presenter of this webcast will provide BMC MAINVIEW for DB2 users with an overview of the... [30 Jul 2009]