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The Road to RIA

Posted Thursday, November 26, 2009 12:05 PM | 10 Comments

Tools such as Visual Basic (VB) and Visual FoxPro succeeded and became wildly popular because they provided simple and effective abstractions of a programming language. This allowed relatively inexperienced developers to rapidly prototype and produce Read More

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Do Scalar UDFs give SQL Server a Bad Name?

Posted Friday, November 13, 2009 10:24 AM | 9 Comments

Many developers seem to regard SQL Server as if it were a science-fiction alien planet where unsuspecting crew-members in blue jumpers occasionally die horribly; everything is suddenly unsafe, and potentially malicious: nothing really works Read More

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November 2009

How to Kill a Company in One Step or Save it in Three

The majority of companies that suffer a major data loss subsequently go out of business. David Wesley... Read more...

Migrating from OCS 2007 R2 to Lync: Part 4

Having migrated the rest of our users and legacy resources across, and start getting ready to... Read more...

Automated Script-generation with Powershell and SMO

In the first of a series of articles on automating the process of building, modifying and copying SQL... Read more...

Seth Godin: Big in the IT Business

Seth Godin has transformed our understanding of marketing in IT. He invented the concept of 'permission... Read more...

Using SQL Test Database Unit Testing with TeamCity Continuous Integration

With database applications, the process of test and integration can be frustratingly slow because so... Read more...

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