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The Ten Most Asked SQL Server Questions And Their Answers

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:01:14 GMT

Then 10 most asked SQL Server Programming questions and their answer

SQL Server Precision And Scale Problems

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:31:04 GMT

Many people are confused about SQL Server's precision and scale. This is unfortunate because choosing the correct values for precision and scale is critically important when you perform math operations using the decimal/numeric data type

Troubleshooting blocking 101 on sql-server

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:31:02 GMT

How to find out which process is blickong in SQL-server 2005

An interview with Roy Osherove author of "The Art of Unit Testing"

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:46:02 GMT

A short interview with Roy Osherove, author of a new book "The Art of Unit Testing" and known blogger, who works on Typemock Isolator.

An interview with Louis Davidson author of pro sql server 2008

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:01:12 GMT

Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation is one of those books that should be in the hands of every SQL Server developer. There are tons of SQL Server programming books around but none of them covers the fundamentals of a good SQL Server database, the design. If your design is 'broken' then it is a lot harder to fix it down the road, design is probably the number one reason people have all kinds of problems with their databases.

LINQ to SQL queries involving strings cause SQL Server procedure cache

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Be careful when using LINQ. If an application is using LINQ to SQL and the queries involve the use of strings that can be highly variable in length, the SQL Server procedure cache will become bloated with one version of the query for every possible string length

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few L

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:01:04 GMT

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code

LTD Puzzle VIII - Converting between Roman and Arabic Numerals

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:46:09 GMT

The puzzle this week is simple. Write a program to convert to (and from) roman numerals. So your program should be able to take the input of 27 and return XXVII, and take MCMLXXXI and return 1981. And of course any other values....

nHibernate performance against stored procedures

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:01:15 GMT

A 5 part blogpost about the performance of a select statement done with ADO.Net using inline sql, and stored procedures (even some dynamic sql) and then nHibernate to get the same results. But this one has an alternate ending.

5 Books Every Developer Should Read

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:01:02 GMT

Which books should you read/buy when you are a programmer? I have listed 5 books that have helped me a lot. The books that I have chosen are not specific to any language although some of the books have examples in one language only

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 - Using Ajax and Ajax.Form

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:31:03 GMT

Hanselman explains how to use the new AjaxHelper in Asp.Net MVC Preview 4.

Extending the System.Drawing.Image clas to make a thumbnail

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:46:04 GMT

Extending the System.Drawing.Image clas to make a thumbnail easy way. Instead of using getThumbnail you just use Tothumbnail and a maximumsize, optional parameter is if you want to keep the aspect ratio.

LTD Puzzle 5 -Fibonacci Sequence

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:18:30 GMT

This weeks puzzle is a nice and simple one to ease all those with sore heads from the July 4th celebrations back into thinking code...

ASP.NET Hacks

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:46:08 GMT

At LessThanDot, we've decided to release a series of articles, tips and tricks which will be known as the "Hacks" series. The first instalment was the popular SQL Server Programming Hacks and this week sees the release of the ASP.NET Hacks. These hacks have been split up into the following categories: 1 Applications 2 Caching 3 Controls 4 Database 5 Dates 6 Debugging 7 Email 8 Encryption 9 Files 10 Images 11 Javascript 12 Objects and Classes 13 Pages 14 Sessions 15 Strings 16 Validation 17 Visual Studio 18 Web We've decided to release these in the wiki so that anyone can contribute to them, so feel free to add anything else that you find useful.

Danger in Design: Why bother with Architecture?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:01:12 GMT

Creativity is a wonderful thing. It's also something different for each of us, which is why sometimes our perspectives on the world can produce conflicting ideas on what is the right way and the wrong way to do things. This is a very common facet of the IT world, in particular making computer software, solutions and services.

Puzzle - Ascii Art in Shortest Code

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:47:28 GMT

This week's puzzle is to draw a couple shapes using characters, in as little code as possible.

C# Sorting winforms controls using linq

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:16:09 GMT

C# Sorting winforms controls using LINQ

Good SQL Articles To Read If You Can't Afford Books

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:01:02 GMT

You have only $50 left and you can buy two DVDs or one SQL book, what do you do? I would buy the book but not every person has the same idea of a fun time. This is the reason why I present you with a bunch of links to articles which will give you very good info. some of this you won't be able to find in a book anyway.

The Evolution of Systems Integration

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:15:41 GMT

From Fax to SOA, a journey to success ? We've come a long way since the days of fax machines and typewriters - the objectives have remained pretty similar, and with each iteration of the solution we've found resolution to issues in the former, yet we continue to unveil new aspects of the objective that need addressing. Will we ever get to a perfect solution ?

SQL Server Programming Hacks

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:16:02 GMT

This is a collection of SQL hacks, right now there are 8 sections and between 70 and 80 hacks.

LessThanDot goes live!

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:46:06 GMT

The IT Community LessThanDot has been launched as of this morning, Sunday 1st June 2008.

LessThanDot? - Mark Smith

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:01:18 GMT

Mark Smith talks about a new IT community site (named LessThanDot) aimed at providing forums, wikis and blogs for the community to discuss ideas, share knowledge and learn from the experts.

Do you depend on sp_depends (no pun intended)

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:46:04 GMT

Why you cannot depend on the sp_depends proc when checking for dependent objects in SQL Server