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SQL Server 2005: Immediate Deadlock notifications

Wed, 21 May 2008 09:48:15 GMT

Deadlocks can be a pain to debug since they're so rare and unpredictable. The problem lies in repeating them in your dev environment. That's why it's crucial to have as much information about them from the production environment as possible. This is one way of getting it immediatly when it happens,

Automated GUI testing - Is it worth it?

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:21:29 GMT

Unit tests no. Acceptance and Integration testing yes with great success.

SQL Server Indexes: The Basics

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:31:06 GMT

Indexes directly affect the performance of database applications. This article uses analogies to describe how indexes work. The estimated execution plan feature of the Query Window is utilized to compare the performance of two queries in a batch.

Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:16:03 GMT

Free MS and non MS tools for easoer work with SQL Server 2005 and 2000

C#: Care about Event Memory Leaks with Delegate.GetInvocationList()

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

Subscribed events are one of the most common reasons of memory leaks in .Net. This means that if you have an object that has an event and there are other object that are subscribed to that event, the original object won't be properly disposed until all events are unsubscribed since an event is a strong reference.

C# : Get current Caret Line and Column in multiline WinForms TextBox

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:16:02 GMT

A managed way of finding current Caret Line and Column in a multiline windows forms textbox.

SQL Server: Notify client of progress in a long running process

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:16:02 GMT

In long running scripts it's usefull to notify the client of the progress. Here's a simple solution.

SSMS Tools Pack - an add-in for SQL Management Studio 2005 is out (bet

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:46:03 GMT

SSMS Tools Pack is an Add-In (Add-On) for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005. It contains a few upgrades to the IDE that I thought were missing from Management Studio.

SQL Server: The proper and fastest way to check if rows exist

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:16:02 GMT

Simple yet very underused way to check if rows matching a condition exist.

SQL Server 2005: An error or intended behavior with Database Compatibi

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:01:27 GMT

It turns out you can still run CLR functions, sprocs etc when changing the compatibility level from 90 to 80. Bug or feature?

"Nothing has changed" - Determining when a procedure has been altered

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:01:01 GMT

Cool little script to determine when a stored procedure was last updated.

Exchange: Accept and Cancel Meeting Request with WebDav

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:28:27 GMT

i show how to accept and cancel the meeting request with WebDAV protocol.

Debugging Stored Procedures in Visual Studio 2005

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:58:44 GMT

Interesting article on using Visual Studio to debug stored procedures.

Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) - Transactions and Debugging

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:30:00 GMT

Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) is a new SQL Server 2005 feature that allows the user to run more than one SQL batch on an open connection at the same time. In my previous article about MARS I explained what MARS is and how to use it. In this article I'll discuss how transactions in MARS work and how you can debug MARS connections.

Writing CLR Stored Procedures in C#

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:01:01 GMT

This is the first article in a series on writing stored procedures using the Common Language Runtime (CLR). This article focuses on basic C# syntax and using Visual Studio to build a stored procedure. It's targeted at DBA's and anyone else who primarily writes in Transact-SQL and hasn't had much exposure to .NET yet.

Nominate Subtext for a 2007 Community Choice Award

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:46:01 GMT

The SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards are a chance for you, the community of open source software users, to nominate and then vote on the projects that you find most useful, best designed, most collaborative, etc... Support the .NET Open Source community and Subtext - Go Vote!