Hi guys...I've been gone nearly a month now. I've finished the last of my classes of my last year of my BSc degree (final exams are in January) and we were having all sorts of grad parties. Add to that finishing off a freelance project and my new role as one of the moderators of http://forums.asp.net...

Hi all. Get this great Red Gate resource for free: The Best of SQL Server Central Vols 5 and 6 and also get this one The Art of High Performance SQL . If you are not convinced, with this download you can get also this cool ebooks: 1. Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server 2008 2. Brad McGehee's DBA Best Practices...

On an other blog I found some interesting analysers like: SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer The SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) gathers data from Microsoft Windows and SQL Server configuration settings. BPA uses a predefined list of SQL Server 2005 recommendations and best practices...

Part II of the Southeast Valley .NET User Group ORM comparison happened yesterday.  It started off nice and calm but ended with a bang or two.  No there were no fight or arguments between the presenters or attendees but mother nature let loose on the Phoenix area last night.  Especially...

By Nannette Thacker In the final installment of this tutorial, we look at importing the uploaded Excel spreadsheet into the application database tables using the DAL. The article series hosted on 4guysfromrolla.com continues with Importing an Excel Spreadsheet Using Typed DataSets and TableAdapters:...

With just the schema alone, the ASP.NET membership (role, profile, etc.) database does not have enough information to operate correctly. There are a few records needed or else the ASP.NET membership and other providers will throw an error complaining that it may be an invalid version. This is good, of...

The July July and August 2008 meetings of Southeast Valley .Net Users Group ( SEVDNUG ) will host a comparison of different Object Relational Mapper / Data Access Layer technologies. Requirements have been to established so that there is a common database and user interface to compare these technologies...

Esta es la segunda parte de la serie de artículos dedicada a la construcción de reportes para aplicaciones web. En esta parte vamos a examinar dos aspectos muy importantes en la construcción de reportes. El primero es como “hacer” reportes que se parametrizan por código...

Muchas veces nos encontramos realizando sistemas de información que se dedican a capturar datos pero que también necesitan una manera de procesarlos y mostrarlos. Para esta tarea entran en juego los famosos Reportes que no son más que objetos que entregan información en un formato...

Here are the highlights from the TechEd 2008 Keynote (as seen from afar by watching the TechEd 2008 Keynote and reading posts and press): Via Microsoft PressPass , here are the key announcements (with my notes): Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 will be available this August Silverlight 2 beta 2 will be available...