A client of mine located in the Aiken/Columbia South Carolina Area has asked me if I had any friends who are .NET Developers and looking for a job. They are looking for at least one Junior Developer, on Mid-Level Developer and several Senior developers. I know these folks quite well and I can vouch for...
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I am lucky enough to work for a company that really encourages us to get together and learn/hang out etc. One way this happens is by Tech Nights. Basically, we have in office meetings which are recorded via Live Meeting, where someone picks a topic and teaches about it. Afterward, folks go to dinner...
The IM volume I received today about the Rollback to SqlCE issue was enough to border on overwhelming. Between PMs and some lazy SOB CRM guy trying to get me to do all his work for him, it was hard focusing on work today. (And seriously, if you are a CRM professional, telling me you don't know how...
I've actually got a lot to discuss about database stuff but wanted to start out explaining a very basic concept. All me to disgress for a moment. I've worked at a few places where there were some Cobol/AS 400 developers that were quite full of themselves. They knew how to handle business with...
A while ago, I posted this about how much a55 I think Crystal Reports sucks. A long time ago, back at like v.7, I thought Crystal was a decent product. And to be honest, it still is a decent product. But it comes with a lot of baggage and has a lot that just makes it lame. So I had almost total consenus...
It seems like years ago, but I remember one of my professors giving us an assignment. It involved taking a database chock full of redundancies and writing the SQL Statements to make a few small updates. We thought it was an assignment to test our SQL Skills. However we were graded on how close to 'right'...
I'm working at a client on a data migration and found some results that were surprising. I expected there to be a difference but not one quite this large... Synopsis of Problem: Right now I'm working on a rather complex migration from a bunch of disparate data sources into a consolidated Sql Server database...
A while ago, Frans wrote Stored Procedures are Bad, M'Kay . None other than Adam Machanic chimed in, arguing essentially the opposite . The always insightful Anatoly Lubarsky gives his take on it and well, my head is spinning. I was Mr. Stored Procedure until Frans schooled me on it. I still like them...
One of the issues I came across when writing my new book was with ConnectionStrings. Examine the following configuration section: <connectionStrings> <add name="AdventureWorksString" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=db; Integrated Security...
I'm bummed that I couldn't make it to Tech Ed, Sahil is presenting and everyone I know is up there. Anyway, i've been reading Kent Tegels liveblog of Pablo Castro's ADO.NET 3.0 presentation report on ADO.NET 3.0 and am green with envy. Pablo is one of the baddest gurus out there. He knows his stuff inside...