SQL Azure Federation Open for Nominations Shaun, January 1, 0001 Cihan Biyikoglu had just announced the SQL Azure Federation Products Evaluation Program had just been opened for nomination. If you are interest in data partitioning, or you had been run into the problem ... SQL Azure Federation Open for Nominations 0 0 0
Cloud Lesson Learned: Exponential Backoff Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 This blog is the first one of a series of blogs addressing programming practices and lessons learned related to cloud computing. While most developers will be familiar at least conceptually with the techniques ... Cloud Lesson Learned: Exponential Backoff 0 0 2
Windows Azure Platform Roadmap from Microsoft UK TechDays May 23r... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Several attendees asked me to share the roadmap slide from the developer track at Tech.Days 2011 this week. This is my summary as of May 23rd 2011. Beta Extra Small compute instance Windows Azure VM Role ... Windows Azure Platform Roadmap from Microsoft UK TechDays May 23r... 0 0 0
Stripping password from a connection string. TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 When debugging it is useful to display the connection string but what you do not want is to disclose the password. So I wrote a function StripConnectionPassword to strip the connection string of any password. ... Stripping password from a connection string. 0 0 0
WPB .Net User Group May 2011 Meeting With Scott Klein Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 Scott Klein, co-founder of Blue Syntax Consulting and SQL MVP, was our speaker at the West Palm Beach .Net User Group May meeting. Scott spoke and demonstrated code on Azure’s AppFabric. We would like ... WPB .Net User Group May 2011 Meeting With Scott Klein 0 0 0
The Geeks @bt dotEPS Akshay Deep Lamba, January 1, 0001 EPS or Encapsulated PostScript is a standard graphics file format for exchanging images, drawings or even layouts of complete pages. An EPS file internally contains a description of such an object or layout ... The Geeks @bt dotEPS 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for May 24 2011 -- #1094 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 Looks like bloggers figured out I'd post the submittals first, because today I got hammered with posts. In this 2nd in a row Submittal-only Issue: Alex Golesh(-2-, -3-, -4-, -5-), René Schulte, Alex van ... Silverlight Cream for May 24 2011 -- #1094 0 0 0
Design Patterns 100-Part4 RonGarlit, January 1, 0001 “Design Patterns 100″ is a prerequisite for .NET Developers. (Part 4 – Excerpts from July 2010 – PhillyNJ.NET Presentation) Continuing our discussion from Part-3 we ask. What are the “Gang of Four” (GoF) ... Design Patterns 100-Part4 0 0 0
Design Patterns 100-Part3 RonGarlit, January 1, 0001 “Design Patterns 100″ is a prerequisite for .NET Developers. (Part 3 – Excerpts from July 2010 – PhillyNJ.NET Presentation) Continuing our discussion from Part-2 we ask. What are the “Gang of Four” (GoF) ... Design Patterns 100-Part3 0 0 0
MVC3 JSON Error Mike Koerner, January 1, 0001 I was working on a MVC3 project with jqGrid using JSON. The data was created using EF4 Code First. Took me a while to hook up the grid and actually having it post back to the server to retrieve the JSON. ... MVC3 JSON Error 0 0 0
Resources for Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 Here are the updated links for quick reference: Windows Phone SDK Beta Download Center: http://go.microsoft.com/?li... Go live license– http://go.microsoft.com/?li... WPDT 7.1 Documentation ... Resources for Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta 0 0 0
Backup Tool for SQL Azure Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 For those that attended TechEd NA 2011 last week in Atlanta it should be no surprise that more and more companies are betting on the Azure platform, whether it is Windows Azure or SQL Azure. There have ... Backup Tool for SQL Azure 0 0 0
Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 – Beta [Windows Phone 7 &... Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 Today a new set of tools targeting the Windows Phone 7 “Mango” release is available. This toolset is being called Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 This by not means can be translated into the actual product ... Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 – Beta [Windows Phone 7 &... 0 0 0
Free eBooks from Microsoft/MSDN Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 Just reminder of a post I wrote back in December. Don’t forget that there is a variety of free ebooks available for download on a number of different developer and IT topics. Developer subjects include ... Free eBooks from Microsoft/MSDN 0 0 0
A story of corrupted Master database in SQL Server 2008 ( By Yo... Akshay Deep Lamba, January 1, 0001 Mondays had been good to me recently. Mondays at work are usually quiet, and occasionally I may even be able to sneak in a nap if you want to. Yeah, I have it good. But this Monday would prove to be a ... A story of corrupted Master database in SQL Server 2008 ( By Yo... 0 0 0
Playing Around With the New SSIS Balanced Data Distributor Transf... Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Microsoft has just released a new SSIS 2008 transform component called SQL Server Integration Services Balanced Data Distributor. As the download site states “this transform takes a single input and distributes ... Playing Around With the New SSIS Balanced Data Distributor Transf... 0 0 2
Do NOT use only CHECKSUM or BINARY_CHECKSUM as sole comparison in... Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 We had a process ot using BizTalk to take in a reference file, then send data in via a table_type parameter in a stored procedure. The stored procedure uses a MERGE statement to insert and update; the ... Do NOT use only CHECKSUM or BINARY_CHECKSUM as sole comparison in... 0 0 13
Frustration and rewards on using SSIS Pivot and Unpivot Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Granted, if you are just transforming data in the same SQL server, why would you do it in SSIS instead of just using Pivot and Unpivot in T-SQL query? But what about in the case where data comes from various ... Frustration and rewards on using SSIS Pivot and Unpivot 0 0 0
PowerPivot, Silverlight PivotViewer, Excel Services, Performance ... Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; ... PowerPivot, Silverlight PivotViewer, Excel Services, Performance ... 0 0 0
Highlight Report Malisa L. Ncube, January 1, 0001 Its been a while since I blogged. Its been hard balancing blogging time, work and many other activities. Most my days and even evenings have been cluttered with a number of tasks ranging from mundial to ... Highlight Report 0 0 1
Tech Ed 2011: The Wide-Open Road, at 55 MPH andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 For Microsoft these days, great things are happening at the macro level, and yet there’s fits-and-starts progress down below. This year’s Tech Ed North America conference represented, in event-form, that ... Tech Ed 2011: The Wide-Open Road, at 55 MPH 0 0 1
jqGrid y Asp.net, un primer acercamiento Jason Ulloa, January 1, 0001 Luego de varios días de intenso trabajo, hoy he tomado un pequeño espacio de tiempo para dedicar un post al trabajo con datos en forma de tablas en asp.net Todos los que hemos trabajado desde hace bastante ... jqGrid y Asp.net, un primer acercamiento 0 0 29
SQL Agent Job Queue proxy remko, January 1, 0001 Ok, so you have locked your SQL down. No users allowed. But then there is this information worker for whom the IT department made a special SSIS package. And they loaded the package in to the SQL server ... SQL Agent Job Queue proxy 0 0 0
tech-ed foxjazz, January 1, 0001 here at Tech-ed learning sql server stuff. I am thinking I would like to work with ucma because providing ability to manage and utilize communcation services is fun. tech-ed 0 0 1
Entity Framework 4.1 Code First – Mapping Enums to Lookup Tables JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 This afternoon I Built a mechanism for mapping Enums to Lookup Tables in EF Code First - using complex types and implicit operators. The steps are as follows: Step 1 – the Enum // Avoid 0 values – SQL ... Entity Framework 4.1 Code First – Mapping Enums to Lookup Tables 0 0 7
Another free tool to try - SSMS Tools Pack TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.ssmstoolspack.com/ there is SSMS Tools Pack which is an add-in for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2011 (Denali) CTP1 and their respective Express versions. ... Another free tool to try - SSMS Tools Pack 0 0 0
SQL Server Data and Time data types TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 The much esteemed Joe Celko has published an article at http://www.simple-talk.com/... discussing the new data and time data ... SQL Server Data and Time data types 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2011 -- #1088 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Morten Nielsen, Kunal Chowdhury, John Papa, Jesse Liberty, Mike Taulty(-2-), and Pete Brown. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Custom Cursors in Silverlight" Morten Nielsen WP7: "Coming in Mango–Sql ... Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2011 -- #1088 0 0 0
Restore SQL Server Database from suspect Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Below are a few links, that can help, if you need Restore SQL Server Database from suspect MyITforum.com : How to recover user databases from a “Suspect” status( http://www.myitforum.com/ar... ... Restore SQL Server Database from suspect 0 0 0
IsStringContainsAnyFromList helper function Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 /// <summary> /// Returns true, if string contains any of substring from the list (case insensitive) /// See similar (with SqlLikeMatch support) in ResponseMessagePatternsCache /// </summary> ... IsStringContainsAnyFromList helper function 0 0 0
Application Name on ConnectionString Tiago Salgado, January 1, 0001 When I am working on some project, it is normal to need to analyze the queries that are executed on the database to detect a possible bug or something that is not matched with what I expected. For this, ... Application Name on ConnectionString 0 0 2
Paging using Linq Jeroen Bourdeaud'hui, January 1, 0001 Last, I needed a function to add paging. The first problem I had, was how to this. A couple of seconds later, I allready had a solution to this problem: Linq Skip and take will do the trick. list<t>.Skip(_howMany... ... Paging using Linq 0 0 2
The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Exam 70-58... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Let’s focus on Exam 70-583 this time. This exam is PRO: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications. This guide itself will be a different approach to preparing for the exam itself. Instead of ... The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Exam 70-58... 0 0 0
A Custom DNS Name for my SQL Azure Database Server Dittenhafer Solutions, January 1, 0001 The published SQL Azure documentation indicates that authentication may require the suffix "@servername" attached to your username (where servername is your SQL Azure server name), but there is little ... A Custom DNS Name for my SQL Azure Database Server 0 0 3
Deal Groupie – Learning WP7 and ASP.NET MVC 3 David Paquette, January 1, 0001 Lately, I have been taking some time to learn some new technologies. For me, the best way to learn a new technology is to jump head first into a project: Daily deal websites such as GroupOn, LivingSocial, ... Deal Groupie – Learning WP7 and ASP.NET MVC 3 0 0 2
The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Exam 70-51... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Let’s focus on Exam 70-516 this time. This exam is TS: Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4. Additional Resources: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... The exam objectives ... The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Exam 70-51... 0 0 0
Great Finds: FILESTREAM with SharePoint 2010 Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 This has been an interesting topic to have discussions around planning storage and storage requirements organizations need to consider. FILESTREAM provides a means to consider storage of unstructured data ... Great Finds: FILESTREAM with SharePoint 2010 0 0 0
Compact Framework Visual Inheritance P/Invoke Designer Error FranHoey, January 1, 0001 This is a problem I've struggled and struggled with. No workaround or fix I found on the internet worked. In fact the work around I finally got to work incorporates a combination of fixes. Symptoms The ... Compact Framework Visual Inheritance P/Invoke Designer Error 0 0 2
Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 One stop shop for data: https://datamarket.azure.com/ SQL Azure Labs >> Configure OData Services http://www.odata.org/ ... Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket 0 0 0
Windows Azure Diagnostics Notes Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure Boot Camp: Diagnostics (http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.... Remote desktop MonAgentHost.exe starts Auto, listener wired up in app/web.config Need to define a storage account User can set quota ... Windows Azure Diagnostics Notes 0 0 0
Windows Virtual PC vs. Hyper-V Virtual Machines vs. Windows Virtu... Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Hyper-V Virtual Machines Advantage: 64-bit support dynamic memory allocation multi-core CPU Can install Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 and later Disadvantage: Can't get sound to work on those machines ... Windows Virtual PC vs. Hyper-V Virtual Machines vs. Windows Virtu... 0 0 0
Tellago announces the montly webinar series : Tellago Technology ... Vishal, January 1, 0001 Hi there, After the successful launch of the new website for Tellago, today we announce the new series of webinar’s called the Tellago Technology Updates. Today in the fast growing IT Industry it is very ... Tellago announces the montly webinar series : Tellago Technology ... 0 0 0
How do I read the SQL for a View in T-SQL? Paula DiTallo, January 1, 0001 The easiest way in MS SQL 2005 and up is to use the SQL Management Studio, go to Views, highlight the name of the view you are interested in, right click, select Script View as/Create to/Clipboard. open ... How do I read the SQL for a View in T-SQL? 0 0 1
Review: Redgate SQL Source Control Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 RedGate SQL Source Control is a Management Studio add-in that allows you to seamlessly (hopefully...) connect your existing source control system to SQL Server. It is advertised as doing all the typical ... Review: Redgate SQL Source Control 0 0 1
What do you use for Database Source Control? Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 I have found myself using more and more of the tools Red Gate software makes. They have proven (to me) to be effective and to the point. This time I am talking about SQL Source Control. Simple to use, ... What do you use for Database Source Control? 0 0 0
ASP.NET Membership Lock User Tiago Salgado, January 1, 0001 Since we don’t have a direct way to indicate that some user will be locked, the only way I got to do that, was forcing a wrong login multiple times, until reach the maximum attempts defined on “maxInvalidPasswordAttemps” ... ASP.NET Membership Lock User 0 0 1
APress Deal of the Day - 2/May/2011 - Pro SQL Server 2008 Analyti... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 The Apress $10 Deal of the day at http://www.apress.com/ is Pro SQL Server 2008 Analytics "Pro SQL Server 2008 Analytics provides everything you need to know to develop sophisticated and visually appealing ... APress Deal of the Day - 2/May/2011 - Pro SQL Server 2008 Analyti... 0 0 0
Error: conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data typ... intermark, January 1, 0001 Using VS2008 and Entity Framework, the exact error message is: "The conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value.\r\nThe statement has been terminated." ... Error: conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data typ... 0 0 1
Fancy a job in the Microsoft UK ISV technical team? Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 If you are: a senior technologist (Application Architect, Senior Developer or similar) with strong experience in developing solutions using the Windows platform (Visual Studio, SQL Server, IIS etc) fancy ... Fancy a job in the Microsoft UK ISV technical team? 0 0 0
A bit about backups and tools: Virtual Restore Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Over the last months, I have been putting a considerable level of effort recovering databases. That would be databases in dev, staging and prod. Somewhere, somehow someone got access to Prod and decided ... A bit about backups and tools: Virtual Restore 0 0 0