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Work for a Microsoft Certified Partner? Get discounts on your MCP exams!

So here is some good news if you work for a Microsoft Certified Partner company. You can now get discounts on your MCP exams. Microsoft Corporation is offering Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Partner Competency and Microsoft Business Solutions exams at significant discounts worldwide to candidates...

Published Thu, May 26 2005 2:30 PM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Generalities
Congrats to Carrie Underwood and a short discussion on an internet voting system

Always great when a fellow Oklahoman does something wonderful. Big shout out and congratulations to Carrie Underwood for winning this year's American Idol. To make this post a bit technical, American Idol had over 500 million votes this season. Really not to difficult to handle from a software point...

Published Wed, May 25 2005 6:57 PM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Generalities
The last tool you'll ever need to profile your managed code - ANTS Profiler from Red-Gate

As so many of us know, Red-Gate has some really awesome database tools. The Compare and Data Compare tools are totally awesome and I don’t know how I’d do many of the things I do without those tools. Well, I know how I’d do them. The same way I used to. But never again will I work with databases between...

Published Wed, May 25 2005 12:35 PM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Sql Development, .Net Development, Reviews
Dale Michalk on BizTalk 2004 for Developers

On Monday, June 6th, Dale Michalk will be in Oklahoma City presenting on BizTalk server 2004. BizTalk Server 2004 is a server product from Microsoft that helps customers integrate systems, employees, and partners through business processes that are orchestrated in a flexible and adaptable manner. In...

Published Tue, May 24 2005 5:45 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: .Net Development
I will be at DevCon 2005 in Dallas

If anybody is going to be at DevCon 2005 in Dallas on June 16th , let me know. I'd love to put some faces to some names.

Published Fri, May 20 2005 5:55 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Generalities
This is funny and I had to share it

I've been away most of this week, kinda "vacationing". I've been working in the mornings and taking the afternoons off. I went fishing on Tuesday, golfing on Wednesday, saw Star Wars yesterday and will be fishing this afternoon. Lots of fun, very relaxing and not only well deserved time off, but also...

Published Fri, May 20 2005 5:45 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Generalities
Updated random password or string generator in T-Sql for Sql Server

Here is an updated version of my random string or password generator for T-Sql, made into a stored procedure with some other modifications. The stored procedure /*************************************************************************** * Created By: Raymond Lewallen * Date: 05/16/2005 * Purpose: Generate...

Published Tue, May 17 2005 5:21 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Sql Development, Most Popular
Sql Server script to automate the removal of logins

Here is another one of those files that just floats around in a SqlScripts directory on my computer. I've found this script useful many times. This was written by Clinton Herring many moons ago. This script will remove a login from Sql Server. What's so fancy about the script? Well, the script takes...

Published Fri, May 13 2005 5:42 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Sql Development, Most Popular
Visual Studio 2005 IDE Automatically Produces Code to Implement IDisposable

Here’s a neat little thing about Visual Studio 2005 IDE for Visual Basic.Net. When you implement the IDisposable interface, the following code is automatically created for you. This is different from other interfaces in that only the code stubs/shell (empty methods) are produced for other interfaces...

Published Wed, May 11 2005 8:17 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: .Net Development
Sql Server 2005: xp_cmdshell is turned off? what?

So if you have played around much with Sql Server 2005, you may have noticed something peculiar. Ok, several things that are peculiar, but I’m only going to mention one. Have you tried to execute xp_cmdshell? When you do, you’ll get the following message from the server: Msg: I don't think...

Published Tue, May 10 2005 5:38 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Sql Development
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: Lessons from Project REAL

If you want to learn more about SSIS, check out this article: SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: Lessons from Project REAL . SSIS (Sql Server Integration Services) is the replacement for DTS packages. In Project REAL we are using large volumes of real data and scenarios from real companies to implement...

Published Tue, May 10 2005 5:20 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Sql Development
The difference in TRUNCATE and DELETE in Sql Server

I’ve answered this question many times, and answered it again this weekend. What is the difference when doing a DELETE TableA instead of TRUNCATE TableA ? A common misconception is that they do the same thing. Not so. In fact, there are many differences between the two. DELETE is a logged operation on...

Published Mon, May 9 2005 5:45 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Sql Development, Most Popular
Performance Monitoring - JIT compilations

Alrighty, another topic about performance monitoring, this time about viewing JIT information. The previous performance monitoring topic was on garbage collection . When you compile your application with Visual Studio or the command line, you are compiling your C# or VB.Net code into Microsoft Intermediate...

Published Thu, May 5 2005 7:00 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: .Net Development
Generate an Excel XLS spreadsheet from T-Sql in Sql Server

Sometimes you find these really old files floating around on your harddrive and you forget that you ever downloaded them. Here is one such example. I have no idea where I got this or who to credit for its creation, but I've had it for awhile and came across it and thought it would be something nice to...

Published Wed, May 4 2005 6:41 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: Sql Development, Most Popular
TestDriven.Net version 1.1 has been released

TestDriven.Net (formally NUnitAddIn) version 1.1 is now available. From Jamie’s blog , “I've updated the 'QualityTools' test runner so that is works with the latest VSTS 'Test Project's. I've also improved the plug-in model for test runners. You'll need this version if you want to use the version of...

Published Mon, May 2 2005 6:24 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Filed under: .Net Development, Patterns and Practices, TDD

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Work for a Microsoft Certified Partner? Get discounts on your MCP exams!

Congrats to Carrie Underwood and a short discussion on an internet voting system

The last tool you'll ever need to profile your managed code - ANTS Profiler from Red-Gate

Dale Michalk on BizTalk 2004 for Developers

I will be at DevCon 2005 in Dallas

This is funny and I had to share it

Updated random password or string generator in T-Sql for Sql Server

Sql Server script to automate the removal of logins

Visual Studio 2005 IDE Automatically Produces Code to Implement IDisposable

Sql Server 2005: xp_cmdshell is turned off? what?

SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: Lessons from Project REAL

The difference in TRUNCATE and DELETE in Sql Server

Performance Monitoring - JIT compilations

Generate an Excel XLS spreadsheet from T-Sql in Sql Server

TestDriven.Net version 1.1 has been released