(Peter Vogel) This tip is mostly for Visual Studio 2010 users: stop using Ctrl_F. Ctrl_F brings up the Find dialog where you can type in your search text, press the key to search, and (eventually) close the dialog because it’s blocking your view.
Author: SSWUG Research
Identifying Collection Indexes in Parallel ForEach Loops
(Richard Carr) When using a sequential foreach loop it is simple to include a counter variable to determine the index of the item that is being operated upon. With parallel foreach loops the index must be identified in a different manner.
DB2 11 for z/OS subsystem parameter update #2: Maximums
(Willie Favero) As promised, here is the second installment in my summary of changes made to the subsystem parameters (AKA DSNZPARM keywords) by migrating to DB2 11 for z/OS.
DB2 for z/OS Hash-Organized Data: an Interesting Performance Story
(Robert Catterall) A lot of DB2 for z/OS people know about the hash mode of organizing data in a table — something introduced with DB2 10 (I’ve blogged about this topic multiple times, most recently in an entry I posted a few months ago).
Why SharePoint 2013? Making the business case for SharePoint
(Scott Robinson) If you’re anticipating pushback from your executive team on implementing SharePoint, you need to build the business case so you can answer the question Why SharePoint 2013? for your company.
How to Display Multiple Columns from an Existing Database in a Combo Box Dropdown List
(Ged Mead) I came across a question recently where the developer wanted to display two columns of data from a database in the dropdown list of a combo box. As it happens, there’s an example of how to do this on CodePlex and I’ll quickly run through that here. The CodePlex example creates the data
Action Filters in ASP.NET MVC
(Suprotim Agarwal) Continuing with our MVC 101 series today we look at an important MVC feature, Filters. Filters in ASP.NET MVC are a way to apply cross-cutting logic at the controller level. Some examples of cross-cutting logic is Security and Logging.
SQL Server – How to Copy or Export an SSIS Package Using Command Prompt Utility – DTUTIL
(Venkata Suresh Raavi) The command prompt utility dtutil can be very handy when we want to quickly export an SSIS package from either file system to msdb or vice-versa.
Filtering Object Explorer
(Kenneth Fisher) I absolutely love learning new tricks that can be done in SSMS. Everything from opening initial connections to both the object explorer and a query window to changing the font that the query windows use.
Formatting 101 – Nested single row functions
(Scott Wesley) Sometimes to get the data displayed exactly how you want it, you need to employ some nested functions.