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To make SQL Queries Case Sensitive

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:17:20 GMT

To make SQL Queries Case Sensitive using Collation.

SQL Server 2008 - Cheat Sheet - One Page PDF Download

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Very frequently I have been asked to create a page, post or article where in one page all the important concepts of SQL Server are covered. SQL Server 2008 is very large subject and can not be even covered 1000 of pages. In daily life of DBA there are few commands very frequently used and for novice developers it is good to keep all the important SQL Script and SQL Statements handy. I have attempted to create cheat sheet for SQL Server 2008 most important commands. User can print this in one A4 size page and keep along with them. This can be used in interviews where T-SQL scripts are being asked. Let me know your opinion and if you find this useful. Bookmark it for future use.

ADO.Net Interview Question Part 2

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:59:40 GMT

In this section we will touch base on one of important concepts in ADO.Net

SSMS Tools PACK 1.1 - now with SSMS 2008 support

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:01:09 GMT

With this new version you can use it for SQL Server Management Studio 2008 and SQL Server Management Studio 2008 Express. Plus some extra features.

Regular Expressions In MS SQL Server using CLR

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:59:36 GMT

In this post I'll show just how easy it is to make your SQL Server 2005 database support Regular Expressions through what is known as SQL CLR

Working With Linq's Expression Trees Visually

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:29:43 GMT

I've been working a lot with LINQ over the last few months, trying to approach it sanely with respect to SubSonic. It's not that it's terribly difficult to understand - it can simply be overwhelming at times with how much is in there. And whenever you think you know it, you realize that not only were you wrong, you weren't even in the same universe.

Unit testing and PInvoking pt. 2

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:47:30 GMT

Part two in a series of blogposts describing how to unit test code that uses PInvoke calls.

Dynamically Create a Zip File Your Users Can Then Download

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:46:03 GMT

I recently had a requirement to allow users to select a group of files and then dynamically create a zip file on the server of the selected files that they could then download.

Collection.IsNullOrEmpty

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:39:12 GMT

A great highly reusable utility method that increases your code readability. Do you love String.IsNullOrEmpty? Well, this is exactly the same but for collections

Efficient XML processing

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:06:41 GMT

This post describes both, a conventional as well as a different (and probably better) way of processing XML tags.

Use caution with anonymous types and other new C# language features -

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:23:28 GMT

I think Microsoft is making a huge mistake by leaning so heavily on anonymous types as API parameters, particularly in the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Not only does this make the APIs in the system ugly and error-prone, but it's not intuitive, and there is no intellisense for it because the API is untyped (typed as object) in the case where an anonymous type is expected. I think we should stick with named types and named methods wherever possible. I currently don't see a problem with lamda's if they give an advantage over regular arguments. I'm very cautious about automatically using new, unproven language features before we fully understand how they will affect the usability and maintainability of code. Note: we have NO track record for the maintainability of these new language features, and they were developed specifically for LINQ, so using them outside of that context is suspect, in my opinion.

Hasing big files in style

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:16:00 GMT

Describes how to hash big files including progress support. Useful when it takes too long to complete.

Displaying time in relative format

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:55:59 GMT

Many websites specially forum sites display time relative to the current time as "3 Hours 25 Minutes ago", "30 Seconds ago" etc. In this post I will show a method using which we can convert datetime into descriptive relative time string.

ProMesh.NET v2.0 RC1 is (finally) out

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:31:02 GMT

After months of writing documentation, the first release candidate of ProMesh.NET v2.0 has been released in the wild. ProMesh.NET is a powerful MVC framework for .NET 2.0 that has been around for a long time, but today it finally reached another important milestone.

Tutorial: How to Get a List of Available Network Interfaces

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:34:43 GMT

This article describes how to get a list of network connections and their status (up/down, IP address, etc.).

Render ASP.NET Control as String

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Some simple tips and a handy extension method for rendering any ASP.NET control as a string, which can then be passed via a web service to an AJAX call.

Get A List Of Installed Applications Using LINQ And C#

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:08:53 GMT

To get a list of installed applications we need to look into registry. Microsoft.Win32 namespace contains objects which can be used to work with Windows Registry. In this post I will show you some code where I use the power of LINQ to retrieve and display a list of all applications installed on a machine.

Free Data Structures and Algorithms book

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:43:02 GMT

This book written by Granville Barnett and Luca Del Tongo is part of an effort to provide all developers with a core understanding of algorithms that operate on various common, and uncommon data structures. Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples is completely free!

SQL Server 2005 Express Job Scheduling - Part 1

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:33:49 GMT

SQL Server 2005 Express Job Scheduling with the help of Sql Server service broker and without 3rd party products.

Great Design Pattern Resources

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Some common patterns include the Singleton, Facade, Adaptor and Decorator. There are many, many patterns and below are some great resources to learn about them.

The undocumented sp_MSforeachdb procedure

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:32:07 GMT

Joe shows how to use the undocumented Microsoft SQL Server sp_MSforeachdb stored procedure to iterate through each database in a SQL Server instance and perform an action.

SQL Server - Get Nth Highest using ROW_NUMBER() Function

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:10:05 GMT

ROW_NUMBER function was introduced in SQL Server 2005. ROW_NUMBER as the name suggests is used to calculate row numbers in the query result set. Prior to ROW_NUMBER developers relied on temporary tables and co-related sub-queries to accomplish the same, which often resulted in spaghetti code and overall bad query performance.

Amazing Female Bloggers â?" Part One

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:59:11 GMT

Dana Coffey interviews 3 female tech bloggers

Immediate deadlock notifications without changing existing code

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:00:36 GMT

In my previous post about immediate deadlock notifications in SQL Server 2005 I've shown a way to use a try catch block to get the deadlock error. The con of this method, although it uses best practice for error handling in SQL Server 2005, is that you have to change existing code and it doesn't work for non stored procedure code. And that IS a pretty BIG con! So here's a solution to this con.

Unique Index Schema Information in SQL Server

Thu, 22 May 2008 21:28:11 GMT

Javi shows how unique index information can be retrieved from SQL Server catalog in order to determine the relationship type (One-To-One or One-To-Many) in a code generation scenario.