(Derik Hammer) Today a co-worker of mine (Brad) asked a question regarding the usage of T-SQL’s Try-Catch block. Brad wanted to write to a table every time a stored procedure failed so that it was easy to recover the error messages and track issues.
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Identify Primary Keys That Are Not Identity Columns
(Chris Bell) Continuing the thoughts of knowing what is going on in your database let’s talk a little bit about primary keys.
Inheriting Interfaces
(Peter Vogel) It’s no secret that I love interfaces (I did a whole column about them once). As you add more interfaces to your application you may find that you have several interfaces that look very much alike.
Building Modular Applications with MEF
(Peter Shaw) Pop quiz time. How many of you employ methods such as IoC in your projects, or for the non-devs, how many of you use an application that has some kind of ‘Plug-ins’ that it can use? I’m willing to bet that the positive result of that question is quite high, and as for the plug-in aspect
Show Validation Messages Containing Images In ASP.NET MVC
(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET MVC offers HTML helpers for displaying field level validation error messages as well as validation summary. However, these validation messages are displayed as a plain string. There is no inbuilt way to include images or HTML markup with the output of the validation helpers.
How to implement automated license plate recognition in C# using OCR
(Oliver Bennet) This tutorial is about how to implement automated license plate recognition in C# using OCR (Optical Character Recognition). In this guide there are code examples, detailed information and illustrations in order to help to achieve success optical character recognition and in license
IBM InterConnect 2015 from a Data Perspective
(Susan Visser) Another great IBM conference is around the corner. This one is called InterConnect and is focused on cloud and mobile technologies. Since data and analytics play in both areas, you’ll find great sessions to increase your skills and knowledge by attending.
A Deeper Dive into DB2 BLU
(Ember Crooks) I started out with a DB2 Basics entry on BLU. That starts with the most basic concepts. In this post, I’d like to delve into some of the details of BLU and talk about when BLU is beneficial and when it may be detrimental and why.
Corporate Software Selection
It appears from the lack of feedback that open system software participation or utilization is not much of an issue for this audience. We did have one response, however, from a reader having worked at a large company that had an open, free for all, acceptance of open software selection and implementation. This worked well for individual projects. It fell […]
05: SQL Sentry Tools Overview for Microsoft SQL Server with Kevin Kline and Lori Edwards
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