Chapter 32

Things Every Application Administrator Should Know

Abstract

This chapter lists things that every administrator should know. Being aware of these items will improve your ability to do your job.

Key Words

understand the application; file types; file associations; hidden files; case sensitivity; end of line characters; pipes; redirects; testing basics; basic SQL; advanced uses of Excel; URLs; XML

There are things that every Application Administrator should know about regardless of the type of application that is being supported. You’ll eventually figure them out because you’ll probably find yourself bumping into them over and over. Knowing about them in advance might make the learning process just a little bit easier.

32.1 Understand ...

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