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SQL Server Precision And Scale Problems

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:31:04 GMT

Many people are confused about SQL Server's precision and scale. This is unfortunate because choosing the correct values for precision and scale is critically important when you perform math operations using the decimal/numeric data type

Troubleshooting blocking 101 on sql-server

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:31:02 GMT

How to find out which process is blickong in SQL-server 2005

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

Stephen Forte talks about LINQ to REST

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:18:54 GMT

Mr. Forte gives nice little introduction to LINQ to REST with ADO.NET Data Services.

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:31:02 GMT

"At the users group I asked the question to the group 'who creates automated tests as part of their daily development cycle?'. After I asked this question I followed it up with, and if you don't WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY...... Below are some of the answers I received (btw, not the first time I have heard these reasons)."

Breaking changes to the String class in .NET 4.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:31:13 GMT

This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith, String.EndsWith, String.IndexOf and String.LastIndexOf methods by changing them to perform an ordinal (byte-for-byte) comparison by default instead of a culture-sensitive comparison using CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. In addition, the default overloads of String.ToUpper, String.ToLower, Char.ToUpper and Char.ToLower will be changed to use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture instead of CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.

Anders Hejlsberg Video on C# Dynamic

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:46:02 GMT

In this Channel 9 video C# architect Anders Hejlsberg answers some commonly asked questions about the new Dynamic features that will be included in C# 4.0. Building on the talk that he gave at PDC, Anders chats with C# Community PM Charlie Calvert. They discuss questions that community members have asked and riff on themes of import to developers who have been following the latest news from the C# team.

An interview with Roy Osherove author of "The Art of Unit Testing"

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:46:02 GMT

A short interview with Roy Osherove, author of a new book "The Art of Unit Testing" and known blogger, who works on Typemock Isolator.

VB.Net: Rhino Mocks and the AAA syntax

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:12:31 GMT

About how to use the new AAA (Arrange, act, and Assert) syntax with VB.Net and the difference with the old syntax.

An interview with Louis Davidson author of pro sql server 2008

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:01:12 GMT

Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation is one of those books that should be in the hands of every SQL Server developer. There are tons of SQL Server programming books around but none of them covers the fundamentals of a good SQL Server database, the design. If your design is 'broken' then it is a lot harder to fix it down the road, design is probably the number one reason people have all kinds of problems with their databases.

LINQ to SQL queries involving strings cause SQL Server procedure cache

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Be careful when using LINQ. If an application is using LINQ to SQL and the queries involve the use of strings that can be highly variable in length, the SQL Server procedure cache will become bloated with one version of the query for every possible string length

Send Action Queries to Your Database in Batches

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:46:03 GMT

Coming from a database background, I should've known better. But, I didn't. Recently I found myself needing to write a GUI wrapper for a new Address Standardization component we got at work. This was purchased in order to clean addresses for a variety of data processing tasks we do on the way into the database, allowing us to completely automate these processes,

My Dev Kit -- Alvin Ashcraft

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:46:14 GMT

With a nod to John Lam and Shawn Wildermuth for the inspiration, here is a rundown of the things I use on a daily basis to develop software. This includes hardware, software and online resources.

Cloud Computing - More Storms Ahead

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:41:04 GMT

Cloud computing will need to addess multiple technical issues (including DNS security) before it becomes mainstream.

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few L

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:01:04 GMT

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code

VB.Net: Single Instance application the better way

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:35:14 GMT

A better way to create a single instance application

.Net 3.5 Changes as Seen from NDepends...

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Really interesting breakdown of the new 3.5 sp release.

SQL Server 2008 Management Studio tip: Status bar Custom Colors

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:16:02 GMT

"Here is a handy tip for those of you who work often with multiple SQL Server instances: Custom Colors for the connection status bar."

Quantity Always Trumps Quality

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:50:42 GMT

When it comes to software, the same rule applies. If you aren't building, you aren't learning. Rather than agonizing over whether you're building the right thing, just build it. And if that one doesn't work, keep building until you get one that does.

LTD Puzzle VIII - Converting between Roman and Arabic Numerals

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:46:09 GMT

The puzzle this week is simple. Write a program to convert to (and from) roman numerals. So your program should be able to take the input of 27 and return XXVII, and take MCMLXXXI and return 1981. And of course any other values....

nHibernate performance against stored procedures

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:01:15 GMT

A 5 part blogpost about the performance of a select statement done with ADO.Net using inline sql, and stored procedures (even some dynamic sql) and then nHibernate to get the same results. But this one has an alternate ending.

Spark and NHaml - Crazy ASP.NET MVC ViewEngines

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:46:07 GMT

Scott Hanselman's talks about two ASP.NET MVC view engines.

5 Books Every Developer Should Read

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:01:02 GMT

Which books should you read/buy when you are a programmer? I have listed 5 books that have helped me a lot. The books that I have chosen are not specific to any language although some of the books have examples in one language only

Skip lists are fascinating!

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:16:03 GMT

Skip lists are a fascinating data structure: very simple, and yet have the same asymptotic efficiency as much more complicated AVL trees and red-black trees. In this article, I discuss the asymptotic efficiency of operations on skip lists, the ideas that make them work, and their interesting use cases. And, of course, I give you the source code for a skip list in C#.

.Net Extension Method Library

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:01:13 GMT

Lots of good extension methods here for C#