(Paul S. Randal) This is a post I’ve been meaning to do for a while – detailing some of the problems you can run into when using database snapshots.
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SQL Server Virtualization Feedback
Conference Starts Tuesday – Register Now The SSWUG SQL Server Virtual Conference is coming to your computer starting on Tuesday – make sure you register ASAP if you’ll be attending. Have you seen the schedule? Information on all of the base items you need to know for SQL Server is included. From TSQL 101, 2 and 3 to understanding replication […]
Sandboxes, Production and Virtualization for SQL Server
Featured Article(s) Re-throwing exceptions is expensive Microsoft states, "Catching exceptions and rethrowing them is expensive, and makes it harder to debug and identify the exact source code that was responsible for the exception. Do not catch exceptions unless you specifically want to record and log the exception details, or can retry a failed operation. If you do not do anything […]
.NET Tip: Return File Contents as a String
(Jay Miller) The applications I’ve been working on lately send a lot of email notifications out as the status of the application and monitored devices change. There are a handful of different email messages that could be sent. I wanted a means to store the bodies of these emails in a manner that wou
Remoting and common classes
(Richard Mitchell) I’ve been playing a bit lately with .NET Remoting and I must say that so far I’m deeply un-impressed. The documentation seems to be sparse at best and downright misleading at worst. So I thought I’d put a few of my discoveries here so that people can learn from my mistakes.
Use the XSLT 2.0 Character-map Element to Replace Characters
(Leonard Anghel) Here’s an example of how to use XSLT 2.0’s new character-map element to replace a character (or group of characters) with another character (or group of characters) on the transformation runtime:
Native SQL stored procedures in DBM1 – What, me worry?
(Peggy Zagelow) When I describe native SQL procedures in DB2 9 for z/OS, I often hear variations of these types of questions: 1. Doesn’t the external WLM-managed infrastructure provide some throttling of stored procedures? What’s going to happen when this is gone? 2. Can DBM1 handle the same
Microsoft XSLT Profiler
(Oleg Tkachenko) Microsoft XML Tools team has released XSLT profiler addin for Visual Studio 2008. I’ve heard about this tool and even did a little testing long time ago (apparently it’s very hard to release anything in Microsoft).
Hang caused by GC – XML Deadlock
(Tess Fernandez) In December I blogged about a little tool that i wrote to analyze hangs in dumps, and i showed the following output, but didnt really get into the details of why the process was stuck in here…
Integrating Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX
This video is from a talk given by Dan Wahlin at Desert Code Camp in Phoenix, AZ that discussed how Silverlight could be integrated with ASP.NET AJAX to dynamically display albums obtained from an Amazon.com Web Service. The audio in the room wasn’t great since no microphone was used so you may need