Day 2 of being unemployed TehGrumpyCoder, January 1, 0001 I had to run an errand the morning of Day 1 and returned to find the FedEx paperwork from Minerva. My benefits ended August 31. I don’t believe I’ve ever worked anywhere that benefits ended the day of… ... Day 2 of being unemployed 0 0 0
Incompatibilities around BizTalk Server 2009 Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 This is a quick post … after a lot of challenges with a recent deployment of BizTalk Server 2009, it is important to keep the following very much in mind. BizTalk Server 2009 and SQL Server 2008 R2 are ... Incompatibilities around BizTalk Server 2009 0 0 0
August and my intro to Azure Diagnostics Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 August for some reason has been the busiest month I recall in a while. It has had a good doze of the products I love to work with, and it has given me the opportunity to get into one more, Azure. There ... August and my intro to Azure Diagnostics 0 0 0
MongoDb, Serialization and OR Mappers Mohammad Azam, January 1, 0001 The C# driver for MongoDb works with plain documents. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a document oriented world. Our world is more of an object oriented. There are numerous ways of converting the object ... MongoDb, Serialization and OR Mappers 0 0 0
VBScript to Check Database Log Size and Email Alert if it Exceeds... Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Today I decided to share a script I wrote that checks for a specific database log size and if it exceeds a certain predefined limit sends an alert email to a user of choice. Of course, there is a possibility ... VBScript to Check Database Log Size and Email Alert if it Exceeds... 0 0 2
An Amazing Tool for SQL Azure – Houston CTP 1 Shaun, January 1, 0001 I’m not pretty sure how many users are using the standard SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2008 R2 to manage your SQL Azure database. I was one of them until I found the Houston project provided by ... An Amazing Tool for SQL Azure – Houston CTP 1 0 0 1
SSMS Tools Pack is an add-in for Microsoft SQL Server Management ... CatherineRussell, January 1, 0001 SSMS Tools Pack is an add-in for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 and their respective Express versions. It contains a few upgrades to the SSMS IDE that I thought were ... SSMS Tools Pack is an add-in for Microsoft SQL Server Management ... 0 0 0
I'll be speaking at KC SQL Users Group on Business Intelligence -... Leonard Mwangi, January 1, 0001 http://kansascity.sqlpass.org/ on Aug 27th... See you there I'll be speaking at KC SQL Users Group on Business Intelligence -... 0 0 0
Recovering a Failed SQL Server Database From Running out of Disk ... Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Just had a SQL Server 2005 database completely becoming unavailable after the drive on which its files were residing on completely ran out of space (thanks god in development). Freeing some space turned ... Recovering a Failed SQL Server Database From Running out of Disk ... 0 0 1
BizTalk UseAmbientTransaction and System.ObjectDisposedException Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 [UPDATE: 2010-10-15] This update is long overdue. Once we implemented all the changes, we were still getting that error from time to time. The sympton was that we would not get that error for hours, even ... BizTalk UseAmbientTransaction and System.ObjectDisposedException 0 0 2
Team Foundation Server (Basic) Installation : TF254043 onefloridacoder, January 1, 0001 A few weeks ago my local TFS server stopped responding to Visual Studio because of this error: “TFS Service not available: HTTP Error 503”. So this morning while I was waiting for the kids to finish getting ... Team Foundation Server (Basic) Installation : TF254043 0 0 2
Osiris becomes Inmeta terje, January 1, 0001 This summer Inmeta ASA, a leading Norwegian IT company, bought Osiris Data. It means we’re now more than 150 consultants, up from 30 as we were. It means a lot for us, as we now can take on larger projects, ... Osiris becomes Inmeta 0 0 0
LightSwitch Extensibility: It Ain’t Just Hype andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 This past Wednesday, Beta 1 of Visual Studio LightSwitch (VSLS) was be made available to MSDN Subscribers. On Monday, it will be made available to the general public, at http://www.msdn.com/lightsw... ... LightSwitch Extensibility: It Ain’t Just Hype 0 0 1
Visual Web Developer 2010 and SQL Server Express User Instances &... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 The road to learning is such an awesome thing! Yesterday, while browsing the MSDN Forums, I came across some people having frustration with SQL Server Express, Visual Web Developer 2010 and the Web Installer. ... Visual Web Developer 2010 and SQL Server Express User Instances &... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2010 -- #928 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Emiel Jongerius, Rui Marinho, Johnny Tordgeman, and Colin Eberhardt. Shoutout: Arnie Rowland has a very worthy effort going on: Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes ... ... read it and if ... Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2010 -- #928 0 0 0
My 1st Lightswitch App Dave Noderer, January 1, 0001 On Tuesday August 18th, the first publicly available beta for the Microsoft Lightswitch development tool was posted on MSDN. For more information about this Silverlight application generator addition to ... My 1st Lightswitch App 0 0 2
Using MSBuild 4.0 web.config Transformation to Generate Any Confi... EltonStoneman, January 1, 0001 [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/E... Web.config transformation is a simple and powerful inclusion in .NET 4.0 for generating configuration files for different environments. It's a templated ... Using MSBuild 4.0 web.config Transformation to Generate Any Confi... 0 0 3
Code Generation with T4 toolbox Part 1: The elevator pitch James Fleming, January 1, 0001 This is the first in a several part posting about T4-Toolbox. More to follow You landed here because you're interested in code generation, working faster, generating uniform code, forestalling corpal tunnel ... Code Generation with T4 toolbox Part 1: The elevator pitch 0 0 0
Speaking at TechEd Australia 2010 Darren Gosbell, January 1, 0001 TechEd 2010 Australia is approaching at a rapid pace and this year I have a speaking position. I will be talking on the topic of "PowerPivot: How, Why & When" doing some contrasting between PowerPivot ... Speaking at TechEd Australia 2010 0 0 0
Concatenate row data from SQL using For XML instead of coalesce sathya, January 1, 0001 This was the question from Pinal Dave's blog and i have answered the same. Thought this might be useful for my friends too and posting the same here. Hi, I’ve following problem, which I’ve not been able ... Concatenate row data from SQL using For XML instead of coalesce 0 0 1
Service-Oriented Business Intelligence: Not an Oxymoron Chris Falter, January 1, 0001 Long Island Expressway...painless dentistry...dry wine...educational television. Inventing oxymorons like these is a wonderful party game; what others can we come up with today? How about: airline food...random ... Service-Oriented Business Intelligence: Not an Oxymoron 0 0 0
An alternative repository Michel Grootjans, January 1, 0001 Since I published the state of my project goals, I got a few questions about my repository implementation, so here goes… The ‘classic’ repository interface looks like this: public interface IRepository<T> ... An alternative repository 0 0 6
Microsoft’s New Tools: Harmony or Cacophony? andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 In this blog and in my column, I’ve written a lot lately about new technologies from Microsoft that seek to make software development easier. Technologies like ASP.NET Web Pages, Razor and WebMatrix, Access ... Microsoft’s New Tools: Harmony or Cacophony? 0 0 0
SQL Azure and Kerberos Authentication Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Did you know that when you connect to SQL Azure, a KERBEROS authentication is performed? However, when using SQL Server Management Studio, or any other client, you are forced to use a SQL authentication ... SQL Azure and Kerberos Authentication 0 0 0
NOSQL Movement Mohammad Azam, January 1, 0001 When I was in school my instructor introduced me to relational databases. I mostly programmed in Oracle learning different types of JOINS and T-SQL statements. It was forbidden to talk about any other ... NOSQL Movement 0 0 0
SQL (& .NET) Saturday #28 in Baton Rouge reaching its critica... Stacy Vicknair, January 1, 0001 We’re coming down to the wire here for SQL Saturday #28! We’ve got nearly 600 registered and more are coming in each day! If you haven’t yet registered for this event please do so. This is an opportunity ... SQL (& .NET) Saturday #28 in Baton Rouge reaching its critica... 0 0 0
La tendencia XaaS: Todo como Servicio Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 En el artículo anterior se definieron los conceptos de la Nube y Cloud Computing, y se repasó rápidamente la evolución de tecnologías que favorecieron el surgimiento de dicho paradigma. En el presente ... La tendencia XaaS: Todo como Servicio 0 0 37
Cloud Services and Command-Query Separation: Part 3 EltonStoneman, January 1, 0001 [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/E... In my previous post, Cloud Services and Command-Query Separation: Part 2, I walked through a sample Command-Query Separated service bus solution using ... Cloud Services and Command-Query Separation: Part 3 0 0 7
SharpSvn Example - Working with Revisions Kevin Hillinger, January 1, 0001 I came across SharpSvn when trying to find a .NET API that I could use to do some tasks against Subversion. I was building a tool where I needed to pull a list of SQL files that have changed between revisions. ... SharpSvn Example - Working with Revisions 0 0 2
FREE Windows Azure One Month Pass. For US Developers. Vishal, January 1, 0001 Hey, Windows Azure and SQL Azure is free for one month. Unfortunately, its only for US Developers. But anyways, good news for US folks though. Also Microsoft is offering free phone, chat and email support ... FREE Windows Azure One Month Pass. For US Developers. 0 0 0
SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (June 2010 ... Patrick Olurotimi Ige, January 1, 0001 Came across this excellent demos and HOLS here for SQL Server 2008 R2 Enjoy ... SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (June 2010 ... 0 0 0
.NET SQL Parser Wil Peck, January 1, 0001 Ever need to parse SQL Syntax using .NET without actually executing the SQL? Pretty sweet because you can actually do this with built in sql server options. Works out pretty well. Executing a statement ... .NET SQL Parser 0 0 2
Selecting unique values from an Oracle table Jim Lahman, January 1, 0001 There are times when we only want to the unique records from a table where there are many records that have the same value. In this example, I have a table that stores all the coating weight footage measurements ... Selecting unique values from an Oracle table 0 0 1
Infopath Timeout When You a Create/Edit a Workflow Jay Fox, January 1, 0001 We recently had to open a ticket with MS regarding the creation of workflows when using Infopath. Basically what would happen is that the connection to the SQL box was so slow that the XML was not getting ... Infopath Timeout When You a Create/Edit a Workflow 0 0 1
Real World Entity Framework 4.0 and ASP.NET 4.0: Interview with H... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 One of my colleagues pointed me at Howard Baines as a recent example of a web consultancy already using Visual Studio 2010 and Entity Framework 4.0 to build web applications. I managed to grab a little ... Real World Entity Framework 4.0 and ASP.NET 4.0: Interview with H... 0 0 0
Microsoft #LightSwitch Defends Productivity andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 At VSLive today, I had the pleasure of introducing Microsoft Corporate VP Jason Zander. And he had the pleasure of introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch. Pleasure is a theme here, because the product, ... Microsoft #LightSwitch Defends Productivity 0 0 10
Introducing LightSwitch – rapid development of LOB applicat... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Today at VSLive! we announced Visual Studio LightSwitch (link not quite up yet). LightSwitch is intended to be the simplest way to build business applications for the desktop and cloud. It provides the ... Introducing LightSwitch – rapid development of LOB applicat... 0 0 2
SQL Server DB Row Counts Wil Peck, January 1, 0001 Recently I was tasked with the responsibility of purging database from one of our SQL 2000 databases. One of the test cases is to use a copy of a database that is a small production database and delete ... SQL Server DB Row Counts 0 0 0
getdate() Func | A lot to Know abt.... Akshay Deep Lamba, January 1, 0001 Introduction Let’s pretend you are being interviewed for the DBA or T-SQL Programmer job and are asked a question like this: What is the precision of the GETDATE() and/or SYSDATETIME() function? If your ... getdate() Func | A lot to Know abt.... 0 0 0
New Features in Reporting Services 2008 and 2008 R2 Patrick Olurotimi Ige, January 1, 0001 Just came across this awesome summary regarding some additional features to Reporting Services 2008 and 2008 R2 Enjoy ... New Features in Reporting Services 2008 and 2008 R2 0 0 1
Security Tutorials CatherineRussell, January 1, 0001 Security Basics and ASP.NET Support; An Overview of Forms Authentication; Forms Authentication Configuration and Advanced Topics; Creating the Membership Schema in SQL ServerCreating User Accounts; Validating ... Security Tutorials 0 0 0
CTP1 of new admin tool for SQL Azure is now available - ‘Ho... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 CTP1 of Microsoft® Project Code-Named “Houston” is now available. This is a lightweight and easy to use database management tool for SQL Azure databases. It enables you to swiftly develop, deploy, and ... CTP1 of new admin tool for SQL Azure is now available - ‘Ho... 0 0 1
Courting Disaster by Designing for Demos Chris Falter, January 1, 0001 One of the cool features of the software my company builds is the ability to create "ad-hoc queries." The concept is simple but powerful: developers build SQL views for important data, which are available ... Courting Disaster by Designing for Demos 0 0 0
Desarrollando utilizando la plataforma Azure, Parte 1. Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 El primer paso a completar es el tener una cuenta en Azure, hay que tener muy claro que esto representa algo que va a significar en costo y cargos por utilizar los servicios. Lo que haremos es ir a www.azure.com ... Desarrollando utilizando la plataforma Azure, Parte 1. 0 0 0
MsBuild Task for Scripting Custom Mapping Tables Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Introduction On many BizTalk projects you have to deal with managing mapping of reference data. A number of times in the past I've spoken about the features in BizTalk for mapping reference data however ... MsBuild Task for Scripting Custom Mapping Tables 0 0 2
Sam Abraham to Speak About Dynamic Data Backup Using ADOX and SSI... Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; ... Sam Abraham to Speak About Dynamic Data Backup Using ADOX and SSI... 0 0 1
Developers Are Still Migrating “Old School” Legacy Ap... Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 I recently received an email from a self-described “old school” developer who had attended one of our Visual FoxPro classes from a number of years back (2001?). He had some questions about working with ... Developers Are Still Migrating “Old School” Legacy Ap... 0 0 0
Get information for your SQL Server Leonard Mwangi, January 1, 0001 If you are a DBA you should be familiar with @@Version to get the information for you SQL Server, but whatif you want to get a little more that the @@Version information. Here is a head start. CREATE PROCEDURE ... Get information for your SQL Server 0 0 0
Visual Studio tips for SharePoint Admins Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 A while back it was clear: Roses are red, violets are blue … if you are a dev you use Visual Studio. Now: Roses are blue, violets can be red … if you do SharePoint,Visual Studio is the right tool for you. ... Visual Studio tips for SharePoint Admins 0 0 0
PowerSSAS v0.3.1.0 released Darren Gosbell, January 1, 0001 Today I put out a new release for PowerSSAS. This release adds the following new cmdlets: backup-ASDatabase clear-ASCache get-ASConnection get-ASRole restore-ASDatabase It also includes a Powershell v2 ... PowerSSAS v0.3.1.0 released 0 0 0