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Validating XML in .Net

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:50:42 GMT

There might be a case where you are importing XML file from somewhere and need to validate it before performing some operations on the XML file. Though, there can be many ways to do so, probably the best is using....

Intersect and Except Operators

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:16:01 GMT

To give you a brief idea - both these operators combine the result of two select statements having same number of columns and outputs result based on the operator used.....

Custom string formatting in .Net

Fri, 25 May 2007 03:31:01 GMT

Recently, while working on a project, I came across the need to format the phone number supplied as string in the standard U.S. phone format(i.e. 1234567890 should be displayed as (123) 456-7890). The phone number was being fetched as a string from the database.....

Understanding OUTPUT clause

Tue, 22 May 2007 08:52:17 GMT

Have you ever come across a situation where you need to delete data from one table and keep the deleted records in another table? or insert data in one table and also add the new rows at the same time to another? Weird situation...

Recursive Queries in SQL Server 2005

Mon, 21 May 2007 08:46:02 GMT

Often times, during my career, I faced a situation where I had to recursively get data out of a table starting from a root. The classic example of such a situation is Employee-Manager relationship table...

Managing unmanaged memory

Tue, 15 May 2007 07:00:34 GMT

The title of this post might seem confusing. Garbage Collector (or GC) in .Net is designed to take care of managed memory only, so what do you do in a case where you have a managed object that itself takes very small amount of memory but allocates significant amount of unmanaged resources? In that case....