(Pinalkumar Dave) What is a NOLOCK?
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LINQ to XML Changes in Orcas Beta1
As S. Somasegar announced, Orcas Beta 1 is ready to ship and will be generally available for download soon. There are some new (and renewed) features in LINQ to XML that you can check out in this release, and some minor changes introduced in response to reviews and comments:
Accessing the Active Directory from Microsoft .NET
(John Charles Olamendy) Some days ago, I saw in the CSharpCorner community’s forum one question about how to access the Active Directory (AD) from Microsoft.NET. So, this article is intended to explain the architecture design of one application querying information to AD.
Update of SQL Server Database Publishing Toolkit for Web Hosting
(Scott Guthrie) A few months ago I posted about the new SQL Server Database Publishing Hosting Toolkit built and published by the SQL Server team. You can read about what it offers and how to use it in these previous two blog posts of mine: –Recipe: Deploying a SQL Database to a Remote Hosting
Restore a dropped table with hot backup
(Brian Peasland) I have a 2-terabyte database. I don’t have a standby database and I don’t have a cold backup of the database. I have last night’s hot backup. One user unexpectedly dropped a table. How can I restore the table with minimal time? (R)
Generating GUIDs with VB.NET
(Irina Medvinskaya) Developers use globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) for various reasons, such as assigning unique identifiers to classes or when dealing with databases. GUIDs are the Microsoft implementation of the distributed computing environment (DCE) universally unique identifier (UUID). GUID
Forms Personalizations
(Anil Passi) In this article, I would like to explain different possibilities of Forms Personalizations. Surely before explaining what can be done, first we will touch base upon what exactly it is.
Automate your .Net build – I
(Partha S) Automating build processes for .Net applications go a long way in ensuring a proper build and makes the build independent of developer habits. It reduces risk by making the build independent of developer’s local machine environment.
Oracle Spatial and TopLink Essentials JPA
(Andrejus Baranovskis) It seems Oracle Spatial functionality can be used successfully with TopLink Essentials JPA also. I have reviewed in detail Doug Clarke (Principal Product Manager for Oracle TopLink) post about how it looks in theory – Oracle Spatial using TopLink Essentials JPA. And, have impl
SQL Server Stored Procedures
(Mike Chapple) Microsoft SQL Server provides the stored procedure mechanism to simplify the database development process by grouping Transact-SQL statements into manageable blocks.