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How To Impress At Your Next Interview

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Over the years, I have had the opportunity to interview a lot of prospective developers. In that time I have come to understand more clearly what it is that impresses me most. And it might not be what you expect.

Understanding SET STATISTICS IO and SET STATISTICS TIME

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:59:05 GMT

Today, I want to talk about two commands that are often overlooked. SET STATISTICS IO and SET STATISTICS TIME these two commands are very useful when comes time to tune a query. Tuning a query seems simple enough. In essence, we want our searches to run faster. When I teach my class on "Optimizing SQL Server" I realize that many people find it difficult to accomplish this task. While there are many reasons why query tuning is difficult, this article will concentrate on one aspect. And that is that query tuning takes place in an environment that is often changing from second to second, making it hard to really know what exactly is going on...

MVC Membership Starter Kit

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

The MVC Membership Starter Kit is a CodePlex project designed to get your membership-based MVC applications off the ground as quickly as possible. Login, registration, user administration and more is handled right out of the box.

Minimal requirements for 'Good' Software

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Good software isn't just the code, it's the care and feeding of the code. It's important that the code can be found, built, and deployed repeatably by someone other than the original developer.

Regular Expression Generator

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:31:08 GMT

Generate regular expressions from sample text input