A free open-source tool called XML Notepad can be used to format or compare XML documents. Also, BIDS Helper's Smart Diff feature. The thing about compiled C# executables is that...

So in addition to querying 120 million rows and 300+ columns, the underlying tables are buried within views. This is like the worst ETL scenario possible... but every corporation has...

Many lay folk (non-techies like your aunt or next door neighbor) complain their PC is too old and slow, but often times what's really going on is that websites are...

The basic design principles of abstraction, encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritence can be (in a limited way) achieved by T-SQL. It's not the same as C# or Java, but it helps...

 We don't usually have organized unions in our industry, but we have helped spur economic growth in our countries with our with in technology and this is a good...

This was an interesting article, and it highlights some of the challenges engineers face when getting technology to work in extraordinary environmental conditions, like naked exposure to extreme sub-freezing temperature....

I believe there is a shortage of what I consider to be real database developers. It seems to me that most database performance issues are addressed from the perspective of...

Heck, most of us in IT are cultural and philosophical outliers even within the community we grew up in, but still we share a lot in common with others in...