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Lack of updates...
Haven't updated in a while. My time has been spent in tech design at work (not much coding) and enjoying the holidays with my family. Hopefully, everyone else is having a good time too!
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Unit Testing Abstract classes
Opinions wanted: How do you write unit tests for abstract (MustInherit in VB.NET) classes? Do you derive a simple class off your abstract class in your unit test assembly? Or do you just write unit tests for the derived classes? Hmmm.....
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Find all SQL Identity columns
I had a need today to find all columns in a SQL database that were identity columns (across all tables). Thanks to SQL's system tables, it was a breeze:
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Technology Backlash!
I don't know what's going on here. First, I have a hard-drive crash that takes a bunch of data with it. I actually took it to one of those data recovery places. It was $95 to look it over, but then it would be anywhere from $1300 - $2500 to fix it. Yikes! No way I could justify spending that kind of money. But I forked over the $95 because I was curious as to what went wrong. A few days later they called with the verdict: It's dead. Totally dead. No recovery possible -- which they said is rare these days to see this kind of crash. At least this way, I don't need to agonize over the decision that spending the money could recover the data...