(Closing Friday Sept 23!) September Survey – 7 Questions to WIN We’re giving away not one, but two 2-year memberships to SSWUG.ORG – all you need to do is give us your thoughts about SQL Server and Bananas. No, really. It’s only 7 questions, and you can win… Seriously, could use your feedback – please stop by the survey site […]
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Systems on Auto-Pilot – One Approach and Notes
Featured Article(s) Tips for using indexes in SQL Server 2008 (Part 2) In this article, you can find some helpful tips to performance tune and optimize SQL Server 2008 indexes. SSWUG TV – In this episode, we have a two-part interview with SQL Azure MVP Ike Ellis and updates coming from the Microsoft Build conference. [Watch the Show] Systems on […]
ColorPicker – ColorPicker with a compact footprint (VB.NET)
(SSDiver2112) A color picker… isn’t there a bunch of those out there already? Yeah, but none of them were really what I needed. There are some cool ones, but they were either too big, or too limited.
Understanding Unit and NUnit Testing
(Vishal Nayan) From Wikipedia: A unit is a piece of code or usually method that invokes another piece of code and checks the correctness of some assumptions afterward. If the assumptions turn out to be wrong, the unit test has failed. A unit test is a method or function.
BizTalk Inline XSLT Call Template and Namespaces
(Bruce) If you have used the Inline XSLT Call Template at all, you will notice at times that your map will validate just fine, but the output may not be exactly what you want (sometimes just an empty single node).
DDL_LOCK_TIMEOUT does not prevent ORA-14450
(Matthias Rogel) According to doc, “DDL_LOCK_TIMEOUT specifies a time limit for how long DDL statements will wait in a DML lock queue.”
Benchmarking XML Databases: New TPoX Benchmark Results Available.
(Roberto V. Zicari) TPoX stands for “Transaction Processing over XML” and is a XML database benchmark that Intel and IBM have developed several years ago and then released as open source.
How To Print the Content of a Windows Forms ListView
(Ged Mead) I tweaked this code a while back when I just wanted to take a screenshot of the contents of a ListView. Essentially, it just uses BitBlt to grab all the required content, stores it as a temporary image, and then uses the standard PrintPage method to print it out.
MarkLogic / XQuery – get a sample of document sizes across a given database
(Alex Bleasdale) Here’s a simple way to get the sizes of sample documents across a given databases
Silverlight 5.0 RC: Implicit Templates and Effective Data Representation
(Mahesh Sabnis) A couple of months ago, I was working on a requirement using Silverlight 4, which contained a ListBox with Employees information in it. This ListBox contained Employee’s category information like Manager, Operator etc and the data was displayed in the ListBox using DataTemplates. A p