All you need to do is to extract the entire year's data, and then group by the month name. as well as the proveedor.nombre and the objetivo.utilidad and you should,...

I found that working in the IT department of a a multinational manufacturing company for a few years was a great education in many ways. It amazed me that they...

We all admire bosses who, to use a British phrase, 'wear their underpants outside their trousers'. (play superman in a crisis). I support this type of solution, but because it...

So when I do the same thing, am I helping to save the planet?

from the MCITP exam 70-443 training kit:

'Nuclear Explosions and Meteors are two examples of disasters that you simply will not plan for unless you are in a government agency...

Thanks Scott, I must read up on my ADO.NET! Thanks too, Florian. I missed those blog posts. I must try it out. I can see this making a great...

Thanks for that. An interesting read, and I like seeing performance figures.

In the non-XML solution you recommend, how does one get the bulk updates from the client application to the...

...the expression 'server hugger' for someone emotionally opposed to 'cloud' computing was new to me!

... Because we goofed. The right one is in place now, hopefully, though it is out of sequence (another goof- sorry Larry!)

Ron,

I tend to agree with you on this point, but how do visitors to our forums know which of several alternative solutions...

! A great name. We used to call 'em 'Write-only' databases.

The real NoSQL people are the first to admit that their systems only deal with those 'edge' cases where...

Dinosaurs get an undeservedly bad press. They survived successfully on earth far longer than the mammals have ever done.

Before I really understood relational databases, I had ten or more exciting...

[p]I thought that it was a good idea to re-feature the article, because it provoked an interesting debate, and I enjoyed reading through all the points that were made. It...

Yes, it is what we Irish call a 'Donkey's breakfast'. The individual ingredients are good, but all stirred up together into a strange mash from which it is hard to...

I use something similar myself. It is simple stuff. If you're interested I'll tidy it up as soon...