Featured Article(s) What do you execute once you have connected to your server with DAC? If your server is having problems and you can’t even connect to it what do you do? The DAC – Dedicated Administrators Connection tool is what you need. It comes with SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 and allow you to connect (with limited abilities) to […]

Featured Article(s) Tips for using Very Large Databases in SQL Server 2005 (Part 2) In this article, you can find some helpful Very Large Databases (VLDB) performance tuning and optimization tips. Why Can’t My Users Connect? I’m constantly hearing from people looking to find the best way to optimize their time and efforts with SQL Server. Hunting down issues with […]

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Featured Article(s) Adding custom context menu items to out of the box SharePoint lists and libraries Most of the functionality available for users to work with when it comes to SharePoint lists and document library items comes in item context menu. If you’d like to add you own functionality to handle list and document library items you might want to […]

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Featured Article(s) PowerShell Script to Query and Add AD Users to SharePoint List In one of the SharePoint projects I worked on, one of the requirements was to insert OU-specific users and to insert these users as new records to a SharePoint out-of-the-box Contact List. (OU stands for Organization Unit) Because this involved querying a little bit of AD (Active […]

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Featured Article(s) XML Namespaces XML Namespaces are wrappings that ensure that there are no duplications of names in a project resulting in conflicts. Dr.Vanitha Vaidialingam examines the concept of namespace and how it can be used to an advantage in this article. Getting Help with Your SQL Server Questions I thought I would point out some of the great resources […]

Featured Article(s) Four practices on improving you custom web and SharePoint application security Now that SharePoint has become a platform for building variety of solutions in many organizations, more of often than not we need to make customizations and add various custom features. There are multiple ways to implement our customizations and depending on the approach selected we have to […]

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