How To Write An Interview Winning Resume
Writing a resume that rocks is not an art. Follow these simple guidelines to help secure your next interview.
2014-08-01 (first published: 2012-07-19)
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Articles
Create First SSRS Report with SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP Cube
Mubin M. Shaikh outlines how to create SSRS Report on SSAS OLAP Cube. If you don't have much prior knowledge of SSRS, just follow the steps and to have your first report ready on OLAP Cube.
2014-08-01
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Spackle: Making sure you can connect to the DAC
The DAC is an important tool and several things can go wrong when trying to connect to it.
2014-07-31
3,296 reads
A TDD Journey: 1-Trials and Tribulations
Test-Driven Development (TDD) has a misleading name, because the objective is to design and specify that the system you are developing behaves in the ways that the customer expects, and to prove that it does so for the lifetime of the system. Michael Sorens starts an introduction to TDD that is more of a journey in six parts.
2014-07-31
9,842 reads
Data Driven Security
Set a security standard across environments that developers can see and run, but not change.
2014-07-30
3,869 reads
SQL Server Alert for Tempdb Growing Out of Control
One option to get notified when TempDB grows is to create a SQL Alert to fire a SQL Agent Job that will automatically send an email alerting the DBA when the Tempdb reaches a specific file size. This tip explains how to set it up.
2014-07-30
10,602 reads
New SQL Server 2014 Permissions: CONNECT ANY DATABASE
CONNECT ANY DATABASE is one of three new permissions in SQL Server 2014 that can be granted to server logins. What is this new permission good for and why would we ever want this?
2014-07-29
15,084 reads
Avoiding Database Deployment Disasters – 7 Tips
Here are seven practical tips for any 'accidental DBA' or developer, faced with having to deploy an upgrade to a database live to production, in a development environment that is in the early stages of getting the database code “house in order".
2014-07-29
10,764 reads
How to Handle Calculations Related to fiscal year and quarter
This article describes an easy way to handle calculation based on fiscal year and quarter
2014-07-28
20,733 reads
Static Code Analysis: a necessary irritation.
There is little doubt that static code analysis can contribute to code quality and deliverability. As an aid to a developer, it seems increasingly essential, but can it ever deliver reliable metrics of code-quality? One shudders at the potential misuse of quality metrics in the wrong hands. My hope is that it remains just an aid to human judgement; and creativity.
2014-07-28
70 reads
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