The Vacation Dilemma
Does vacation cause extra stress at your job before or after you leave? Steve Jones asks a poll question this Friday to see how you feel.
The Vacation Dilemma
Does vacation cause extra stress at your job before or after you leave? Steve Jones asks a poll question this Friday to see how you feel.
The Vacation Dilemma
Does vacation cause extra stress at your job before or after you leave? Steve Jones asks a poll question this Friday to see how you feel.
Audit Database Changes in the Real World
Tjay Belt brings us a story of how auditing was actually implemented and a discussion of why particular decisions were made.
Entity Framework: The Cribsheet
Prasanna Amirthalingam provides an overview of Entity Framework and how it can be used. He shows that it can provide an excellent interface between the Object-oriented model and the relational. The Entity Framework allows developers to work with data in the form objects and properties without having to concern themselves directly with either the stored procedures or functions of the defined interface, or the the underlying database tables and columns where this data is stored.
Finding and listing all columns in a database with default values
I was troubleshooting an issue last week on a vendor-developed database when they stated we needed to look at each one of the 50 tables in their database to make sure that all fields expecting default values, had default values assigned.
Audit Trails and Logging Part II
Continuing with Part II of his auditing series, Gsquared takes a look at active auditing techniques for your SQL Server.
The Bulldogs
Steve Jones talks about IT Project Failure and how you should re-evaluate things are you move forward.
Identity Columns
When Nigel Rivett takes us on a tour of the apparently innocuous subject of Identity Columns in TSQL, even the seasoned programmer is due for one or two surprises.
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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