(Bradley C. Herrin) Cloud applications continue to grow more complex, making the task of rapidly delivering a cloud solution, whether it is just a production-level application or an intricate virtual application or system pattern, more difficult.
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SSRS report server permissions when integrated with SharePoint
(Scott Murray) After successfully integrating SharePoint 2010 and Reporting Services and deploying my first Report Server Report to a SharePoint “Reports” repository using Abin Jaik Antony’s MSSharePointTips article SQL Server Reporting Services Integration with SharePoint, what Repository or List p
Precision and Conversion
$$SWYNK$$ Featured Article(s) How Do You Transition from a Consulting Job Back to Management? I recently received a question regarding “How do you transition from a consulting job back into management?” This is a great topic, because the answer is useful whether you are moving from a consulting job back into IT, or management; OR moving from any field to […]
Kevin Kline on the show today talking about Big Data and his thoughts about why it is important.
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Azure Table Storage
Azure Table Storage For those of you looking into NoSQL engines, Windows Azure Table Storage is another player in the mix. The main difference between Windows Azure Table Storage and other engines is that it is only supported inside the Windows Azure platform. If you wish to use it outside of Windows Azure, it is not available. How does it […]
New Features of SQL Server 2012
New Features of SQL Server Denali By Kautuk Pandey We have just been greeted by another new version of SQL Server in the form of SQL Server 2012/Denali. This release comes with a number of new features. In this article I talk about a few of them. AlwaysON is definitely going to be one of the most exciting new things...
Using Model Binding in ASP.NET Data Controls
(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET Web Forms became popular due to the wide range of data bound controls such as GridView, DetailsView and ListView. The earlier versions of ASP.NET, however, were a bit rigid about how data was bound to these controls.
Use a Build Phase to validate XML
(Steven Fisher) My application includes some XML files that are used while running to map data from a web service. This has drastically simplified the code I needed to write to parse data from the web service, since I can describe how to decode all of the types of object the web service interacts wi
Performance oriented .NET XML and JSON serialization
(Ilias Tsagklis) Microsoft .NET framework provides multiple out-of-the-box data serializers for data transformations. The most famous one used since .NET 1.0 version is XmlSerializer, while one that has got more famous since .NET 3.0 framework is DataContractSerializer.
Shrinking Tables to Aid Full Scans
(Martin Widlake) This blog is about one of those things I do as almost an autonomous “not thinking about it” performance housekeeping task, one which I have been meaning to mention for ages.

