Red-Gate is sending a DBA to Space! Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Ok, I think this is the coolest contest I have seen. Red-Gate is sending a DBA to Space! If you have mad SQL skills, you should definitely look into this contest. More Information: Red Gate, a U.K.-based ... Red-Gate is sending a DBA to Space! 0 0 0
My Silverlight, HTML5, OData and Kinect talks coming up. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Hello Everyone, I thought I’d take a minute to update everyone on my upcoming talks and events that I will be attending. I have talks ranging from Kinect, Silverlight, HTML5 to OData! Wow, that’s a wide ... My Silverlight, HTML5, OData and Kinect talks coming up. 0 0 2
Error when trying to access SharePoint 2010 via PowerShell in a n... Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 I got this error today while trying to access my new SharePoint 2010 environment via PowerShell: Cannot access the local farm. Verify that the local farm is properly configured, currently available, and ... Error when trying to access SharePoint 2010 via PowerShell in a n... 0 0 0
Generate SQL Server Test Data RobBowman, January 1, 0001 I came across (thanks Paul) a great way to quickly generate test data for SQL Server today. DECLARE @rows INT, @a int SET @rows = 50 SELECT * INTO dbo.RobTest FROM (SELECT TOP (@rows) Rownumber = ROW_NUMBER() ... Generate SQL Server Test Data 0 0 0
What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 1 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Microsoft officially released the preview of Vnext i.e. VS 2011, TFS 2011 and TFS Azure (also known as TFS Service) at the Build conference on 13th September 2011 @ California. It wasn’t too long ago I ... What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 1 0 0 1
SQL PASS Summit & MVP Deepdives Volume 2 Darren Gosbell, January 1, 0001 I'm currently in Seattle enjoying the start of some of the activities around the SQL PASS Summit. One of the activities that I'm looking forward to is the book signing session for the MVP Deepdives Volume ... SQL PASS Summit & MVP Deepdives Volume 2 0 0 1
Oracle Dynamic SQL – Drop Table, Copy Table, Purge Tables Rodney Vinyard, January 1, 0001 Oracle Dynamic SQL – Drop Table, Copy Table, Purge Tables CREATEORREPLACEPROCEDURE COMPLIANCE11.table_drop (table_name VARCHAR2) IS dml_str VARCHAR2 (500); BEGIN dml_str := 'DROP TABLE ' || table_name ... Oracle Dynamic SQL – Drop Table, Copy Table, Purge Tables 0 0 3
SQL Server “Denali” Virtual Labs Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 The SQL Server team or group of teams responsible for the learning content has done a fantastic job continually of providing great ways to work with their content. This time it is through the Virtual Labs ... SQL Server “Denali” Virtual Labs 0 0 0
Book Review - MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Serv... Darren Gosbell, January 1, 0001 Full Disclosure: I was one of the technical reviewers on this book. I think my friend Tomislav did a great job on this book and it would make a valuable addition to the bookshelf of anyone that is working ... Book Review - MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Serv... 0 0 0
Review of Redgate SQL Prompt TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; ... Review of Redgate SQL Prompt 0 0 0
SQL Server Temp Tables DevJef, January 1, 0001 In SQL Server we know 3 kinds of temporary tables: Local Temp Tables, Global Temp Tables and Table Variables. In this blog I will try to explain the differences, and tell you how to use it. Local Temp ... SQL Server Temp Tables 0 0 0
Integrating Facebook Authentication for your website using WebMat... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 In the recently concluded WebCamps, Delhi, I was demonstrating Facebook Authentication implementation for your website using WebMatrix 2 Beta. You can read about my earlier post on WebMatrix 2 Beta from ... Integrating Facebook Authentication for your website using WebMat... 0 0 4
Solving Schema Separation Challenges Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Introduction To save on hosting costs and simplify maintenance, Software as a Service (SaaS) providers typically rely on schema separation to host multiple customers' records. This implementation relies ... Solving Schema Separation Challenges 0 0 0
Como componer aplicaciones Windows Azure AppFabric ? Alfredo Delsors, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure AppFabric ofrece servicios en dos areas distintas. La primera la forman servicios de middleware como Service Bus, Access Control, Caching e Integration. La segunda está formada por un servicio ... Como componer aplicaciones Windows Azure AppFabric ? 0 0 0
The votes are in and winners chosen for a free Visual WebGui ProS... Webgui, January 1, 0001 First we would like to thank each and every one of you who have supported Visual WebGui in the nominations for DevProConnections and Windows IT Pro. We appreciate all of our customers and friends of Gizmox ... The votes are in and winners chosen for a free Visual WebGui ProS... 0 0 12
Silverlight Cream for October 03, 2011 -- #1155 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Andrea Boschin, Colin Eberhardt, Anoop Madhusudanan, Lee, Laurent Bugnion, Rudi Grobler, Xianzhong Zhu, Jesse Liberty, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, XAMLNinja, and Kunal Chowdhury. ... Silverlight Cream for October 03, 2011 -- #1155 0 0 0
Definicion del NIST Sobre Cloud Computing Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 El Instituto Nacional de Estándares y Tecnología y su laboratorio de tecnología información, NIST por el acrónimo en idioma inglés, han definido Cloud Computing de la siguiente manera:“Cloud Computing ... Definicion del NIST Sobre Cloud Computing 0 0 0
SQL# - SQL CLR Functions TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.sqlsharp.com/fea... there is a series of SQL CLR functions for SQL Server 2005 and later. The basic set can be downloaded for free! For $200, an additional 50+ functions are available. ... SQL# - SQL CLR Functions 0 0 0
New functions in next version of SQL Server TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://blog.sqlauthority.co... there is an excellent article on functions that have been added to the next version of SQL Server. I like in ... New functions in next version of SQL Server 0 0 0
SQLDataSource in code behind? razisyed, January 1, 0001 FormView and SQL Datasource is awesome in my opinion. You can just bind your controls to data field in the markup, its great. Becomes a bit of a challenge when you want all your data related stuff to be ... SQLDataSource in code behind? 0 0 0
AgileThought at Tallahassee Code Camp #7 on October 1st 2011 Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 Join me and Oleg Sych from AgileThought at Tallahassee Code Camp this weekend! Register for this FREE event online: TallyCodeCamp.org Design Language of Windows Phone & Windows "8" by Nikita Polyakov ... AgileThought at Tallahassee Code Camp #7 on October 1st 2011 0 0 0
ESB Off-Ramp with Dynamic Resolver to WCF-SQL Binding Paul Petrov, January 1, 0001 This example is not covered in the ESB Toolkit samples and I bumped my forehead a few times while making it work. I thought it’d be helpful to save other fellow BizTalk'ers from headaches by publishing ... ESB Off-Ramp with Dynamic Resolver to WCF-SQL Binding 0 0 3
Quick performance test in SQL Server DevJef, January 1, 0001 In order to test Performance in SQL Server, normally you would take a look at how may I/O or how many cycles a statement takes to complete. To make it less complex, you can take a look at how long a statements ... Quick performance test in SQL Server 0 0 2
Free Microsoft Tools & Websitespark Follow Up! OceanWanderer, January 1, 0001 In response to a post from an anonymous individual on one of my posts (http://geekswithblogs.net/... regarding free Microsoft tools ... Free Microsoft Tools & Websitespark Follow Up! 0 0 1
Unable to start SQL Server service shehan, January 1, 0001 When I try to start the service, it fails and the following appears in the Application log within Event Viewer: Source: MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS Event ID: 17058 Task Category: Server Level: Error Keywords: Classic ... Unable to start SQL Server service 0 0 0
Speeding up ForEach loops with parallel programming - Task Parall... Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 If you're working with large chunks of data, eventually you'll probably use a foreach loop to iterate through an enumerable data source and execute the same actions on each item (for example, do something ... Speeding up ForEach loops with parallel programming - Task Parall... 0 0 3
How to add attributes to classes generated by LINQ2SQL or Entity ... Martinez, January 1, 0001 I have just published article about interesting way of decoratning generated classes with attributes. Here is a direct link: DIRECT LINK ... How to add attributes to classes generated by LINQ2SQL or Entity ... 0 0 0
Deploying Report Builder 3.0 reports on 2005 Report Server DevJef, January 1, 0001 How fun is it to use new software? As a developer you always want to use the latest software, and in many cases it’s backwards compatible. This (unfortunately) isn’t the case with Report Builder 3.0 and ... Deploying Report Builder 3.0 reports on 2005 Report Server 0 0 7
Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 - 2 -- #1149 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Peter Kuhn, Scott Hanselman, David Anson, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Rajat Jaiswal, MIke Ormond, WindowsPhoneGeek, Xianzhong Zhu, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit ... Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 - 2 -- #1149 0 0 0
Announcing BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed Charles Young, January 1, 0001 At last, I can announce that ‘BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed’ has been published and is available through major booksellers in both printed and electronic form. The book is not a new edition of the old ... Announcing BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed 0 0 9
Time-outs and locks on objects DevJef, January 1, 0001 How often does it happen: you write an application that uses a SQL Database as source, and when you want to fetch data you get a time-out. Damn! But when you need to get a time-out (for example, if you ... Time-outs and locks on objects 0 0 1
SQL Server Job Monitoring OceanWanderer, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; ... SQL Server Job Monitoring 0 0 0
Collaboration at it's finest ZacHarlan, January 1, 0001 Yesterday I got to participate in a very encouraging experience. I got the opportunity to collaborate on a project I've been working on with another talented developer. Being able to collaborate on this ... Collaboration at it's finest 0 0 0
Dev Teach Ottawa approching FAST ! Vincent Grondin, January 1, 0001 The long awaited Dev Teach conference approches FAST and will be held in Ottawa on nov the 2nd to nov the 4th! Very interesting material both in the main event and in pre-conferences with 2 friends of ... Dev Teach Ottawa approching FAST ! 0 0 0
I'm an Analysis Services Maestro Darren Gosbell, January 1, 0001 A number of people have spotted this announcement on the SQLCAT blog already: http://sqlcat.com/sqlcat/b/... but if you have ... I'm an Analysis Services Maestro 0 0 6
Entity Framework 4 - When you can use Parameterized Constructors ... Jake Rutherford, January 1, 0001 Skip to the bottom if want the quick answer ;-) Just a quick note on something I ran into today... I've taken to utilizing a View Model in which objects are created on a 1 to 1 basis to hold entities supplying ... Entity Framework 4 - When you can use Parameterized Constructors ... 0 0 0
Last update on object? DevJef, January 1, 0001 How many times do you wonder about when an object was last updated? You can find out by using the default sysobjects in SQL Server: USE Adventureworks DECLARE @DBID INT = DB_ID('Adventureworks') SELECT ... Last update on object? 0 0 0
Performance Optimization tips for ASP.NET application AnkitAgrawal, January 1, 0001 For more formatted view .. Goto http://ankitagrawal57.blogs... any web application, performance is basic necessity. Earlier internet speed used to be limited thus users got inclined to pages which ... Performance Optimization tips for ASP.NET application 0 0 4
Use EF 4.0 or not ? AnkitAgrawal, January 1, 0001 At the beginning I want to inform that I've already read the similar question here: Entity Framework 4.0: is it worthy now? but it does not answer my questions and doubts concerning EF 4.0. Here's the ... Use EF 4.0 or not ? 0 0 0
O' Reilly Deal of the Day 20/Sep/2011 - CLR via C#, Third Edition... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Todays Deal of the Day from O'Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is CLR via C#, Third Edition at $23.99 "Dig deep and master the intricacies of the common language runtime (CLR) ... O' Reilly Deal of the Day 20/Sep/2011 - CLR via C#, Third Edition... 0 0 0
SSIS: How to Remove Occasional Quotes and Replace The Column Deli... Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Recently I was assigned a task of helping a developer to cope with an unusual input file processing. The file we needed to load into SQL Server had double quotes surrounding those fields that contained ... SSIS: How to Remove Occasional Quotes and Replace The Column Deli... 0 0 5
Book Review: Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Inte... Charles Young, January 1, 0001 One benefit of my recent experience on a BA flight was that I got plenty of time to read through “Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Integration”. I’d promised the publisher weeks ago that ... Book Review: Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Inte... 0 0 0
Error creating PowerPivot Service Application in SharePoint 2010 ... Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 A few weeks ago I ran into an error while setting up our test farm. I was creating the service applications and when I got to PowerPivot, I got the following error: I was able to work around this error ... Error creating PowerPivot Service Application in SharePoint 2010 ... 0 0 2
Performance Analysis Tools for SQL Server Server , IIS , SharePoi... AbhishekLohani, January 1, 0001 The PAL(Performance Analysis of Logs ) tool is used to generate an HTML-based report that graphically charts important performance monitor counters and generates alerts when thresholds for these counters ... Performance Analysis Tools for SQL Server Server , IIS , SharePoi... 0 0 0
TFS Azure–Technical Access Preview Experience! Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I have been part of the Azure TFS Technical Access Preview (TAP) since March 2011. TFS Azure has been previewed and officially announced as TFS Service in the 2011 Build Conference, California. The Non-Disclosure ... TFS Azure–Technical Access Preview Experience! 0 0 6
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview released Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 The Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview was released to MSDN subscribers yesterday, and will be available in general release tomorrow (9/16). There's way too many new features to list them all here (for ... Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview released 0 0 0
Monitoring BizTalk Server Without SCCM, using SQL query Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 For the environment that does not have SCCM to monitor BizTalk server health, the following SQL query can be incorporate into a SQL job and have BizTalk server at least on a "constant" check. Note: be ... Monitoring BizTalk Server Without SCCM, using SQL query 0 0 0
Technical Wisdom joeeames, January 1, 0001 I was recently discussing some common flaws in application architecture with David Adsit (codeobsession.blogspot.com/) about wisdom in development. Have you ever looked at a system and seen somethings ... Technical Wisdom 0 0 1
How do I get access to DB2 from my .NET applications? Paula DiTallo, January 1, 0001 You have at least 2 choices: Source 1: SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack http://www.microsoft.com/do... ... this includes Microsoft OLEDB Provider for DB2 Source 2: Available from ... How do I get access to DB2 from my .NET applications? 0 0 2
Code Query Language - for static analysis JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Introduction · CQL is a SQL-like language (SELECT..FROM..WHERE) for static analysis of .NET code. · It is a nice complement to code contracts, & is usable in unit tests. If you've ever looked at creating ... Code Query Language - for static analysis 0 0 1