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06 June 2008 01:32

Heroes? Probably Not

One of the big themes this year for Microsoft (and I just saw it on the PASS Summit site) is about IT Heroes. Perhaps I'm just hard to live with today, but I don't think there are too many heroes in IT. We work hard, we make a big contribution...
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20 March 2008 01:56

A Minor Rant About Statistics

If you've ever taken a look at the auto generated statistics that SQL builds (typically on non indexed columns when you reference the column in a where clause) you'll see that they are named _WA_Sys...blahblah. But why? A quick search didn't...
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03 March 2008 01:26

SQL 2008 Schedule Slippage and SQL 2005 SP3

I've read with interest some of Steve's editorials about SQL 2005 SP3 and in large part agree with him that it's hard to believe they are contemplating no additional service packs beyond #2. I think it's easy to react - or over react ...
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05 February 2008 01:26

What's wrong with Linq to SQL

There's a lot of buzz in the development community about LINQ in general, and for those that do data access just as much buzz about Linq to SQL. It's hard to describe in a sentence, but think of LINQ as a way to write queries against .Net objects...
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30 November 2007 01:05

MS, kill Begin/End!

It's funny - sorta - how you become used to the quirks of the tools you. I try not to rant too often here on the blog, but seriously, it's time for TSQL to lose the BEGIN/END syntax. It's clunky syntax that I think adds more bugs than it prevents...
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22 November 2007 01:27

Logging Server Reboots - What the Heck MS?

Maybe someone at MS can explain this; they have that nice dialog that comes up after a reboot where you select planned/unplanned, enter a code and a reason. Why don't they auto populate that when a Windows update triggers the reboot without user intervention...
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24 October 2007 18:23

Untitled Pages in ASPX

If you do any coding in .Net using aspx pages you'll recognize this one. Each page has a title attribute that defaults to 'untitled page'. Nothing wrong with a default, but I sure wish they wouldn't let those pages compile or would at...
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25 September 2007 13:52

Flawed URL Validation and Not Eating Your Own Dog Food

MS includes a bunch of reasonably nice validation controls in VS 2005 and one of them includes the ability to validate that a string is a valid (syntactically) a URL. Sort of. If you don't prefix it with 'http://', it says it's invalid...
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