The Cost of Support
Microsoft is not planning on releasing Service Pack 3, but what is the best model for supporting software? Steve Jones gives a few thoughts.
2008-04-06
43 reads
Articles
The Cost of Support
Microsoft is not planning on releasing Service Pack 3, but what is the best model for supporting software? Steve Jones gives a few thoughts.
2008-04-06
31 reads
No XP, but Look Forward To 7
A look back at the news of the past week including Windows 7, SSD performance, April Fools, and consistency in SQL Server.
2008-04-05
191 reads
Windows 7 and More
A look back at the news of the past week including Windows 7, SSD performance, April Fools, and consistency in SQL Server.
2008-04-05
229 reads
Windows 7 and More
A look back at the news of the past week including Windows 7, SSD performance, April Fools, and consistency in SQL Server.
2008-04-05
279 reads
Gotcha! SQL Aggregate Functions and NULL
Working with NULL functions can be tricky in T-SQL and SQL Server 2000. If you add in aggregates, you need to be sure you understand what the behavior will be or you might report incorrect values to a user. Michael Coles has written a new article that talks about how NULL affects your results.
2008-04-04 (first published: 2005-07-05)
106,421 reads
Automating SQL Server Profiler
This article details the steps to automate the generation of Sql profiler traces in a Testing environment. The facility is useful when an application is User Acceptance Testing phase where a bunch of test users logon to the Testing site and use the application.
2008-04-04
5,619 reads
CASE function in SQL Server – part II
Part I of this series illustrated how to use simple case functions in queries. This installment discusses how to use case functions in different types of scenarios.
2008-04-04 (first published: 2007-04-12)
10,572 reads
Handling Data Integrity Issues in Analysis Services 2005
Learn about common data integrity issues, and see how Analysis Services 2005 gives you the tools to handle them.
2008-04-04
1,985 reads
Tame Your Software Dependencies for More Flexible Apps
Few would disagree that striving for a loosely coupled design is a bad thing. Unfortunately, the software we typically design is much more tightly coupled than we intend. How can you tell whether your design is tightly coupled?
2008-04-04
1,816 reads
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