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A decade of helpful technical content

This is an archive of the posts published to LessThanDot from 2008 to 2018, over a decade of useful content. While we're no longer adding new content, we still receive a lot of visitors and wanted to make sure the content didn't disappear forever.

Poll: Which of the following SQL Server features do you use?

SQL Server comes with a bunch of features and services, I have created a poll, please go there and pick all the things that you use from this list below SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Service Broker SQLCLR Partitioned functions/Partitioned views Database Mirroring Snapshot Isolation Replication/Log Shipping Full Text It will be interesting to see how many people use some of this stuff

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Run Microsoft Windows Server And SQL Server in the cloud on Amazon EC2

Run Microsoft Windows Server And SQL Server in the cloud on Amazon EC2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will let you run SQL Server in the cloud. Here is the announcement Starting later this Fall, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Today, you can choose from a variety of Unix-based operating systems, and soon you will be able to configure your instances to run the Windows Server operating system.

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Review of MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-502): Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundation

Review of MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-502): Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundation Written by Matthew A. Stoecker This book has 524 pages The reason I read exam preparation books is to learn things about the product which you would otherwise learn the hard way, you might have introduced bugs because you didn’t know why certain things worked the way they did. Taking the preparation exams in the book is also another good way to see if you have actually mastered the material inside the book.

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The Microsoft Extensibility framework

Like Ayende said, It walks like a duck and it talks like a duck but it’s still to be determined what it wants to be. MEF looks like an IoC container but is it really that? No not really. Anyway here are some very good examples of what you can do with it. [ The Microsoft Extensibility Framework]2 Simple Introduction to Extensible Applications with the Managed Extensions Framework by Brad Abrams

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Microsoft Unveils Next Version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework: Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0

Microsoft Unveils Next Version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework: Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. Microsoft Corp. today provided the first look at the next version of its developer tools and platform, which will be named Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. Microsoft described the next release through the following five focus areas: riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, powering breakthrough departmental applications, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM).

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jQuery will ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio!

Now here is some exciting news if you are a web developer in a MSFT shop. Microsoft will ship jQuery with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio. John Resig writes: Microsoft is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform. Their JavaScript offering today includes the ASP.NET Ajax Framework and they’re looking to expand it with the use of jQuery. This means that jQuery will be distributed with Visual Studio (which will include jQuery intellisense, snippets, examples, and documentation).

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tricking the visual studio windows forms designer

No visual inheritance doesn’t work in Visual studio (whatever version). You need way to many trickery to get it to work. I’m working on a blogpost that says why VI doesn’t work but it is taking longer then excpected. There are so many things that don’t work. One thing is the fact that if you inherit from a form that uses generics the designer just gives up and refuses to draw the form at designtime.

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SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update 1 is available from Microsoft

Cumulative Update 1 contains hotfixes for the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 issues that have been fixed since the release of SQL Server 2008. You can request this SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/956717 Below is the long list of things that have been fixed _When you use a SAP client computer to view a SQL Server database, the database may be smaller than expected/kbIn SQL Server 2008, a query returns incorrect results for the Date data type when you run the query on a partitioned table that uses data compression on only one of the partitions

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VB.Net: Configure StructureMap defaults and non-defaults

By now you should already know how to add a default implementation into StructureMap but would it not be nice that you also had a nice way to add a non-default/second implemntation to the configuration? Let me answer that question for you, Yes it would. So what am I waiting for? I’m waiting for you to download the source from sourceforge (https://structuremap.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/structuremap/trunk/Source/StructureMap). And then you compile it and use the StructureMap from that build.

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ISO Week In SQL Server

ISO Week in SQL Server First let’s take a look at what ISO week is, from WikiPedia: Week date representations are in the format as shown below. YYYY-Www or YYYYWww YYYY-Www-D or YYYYWwwD [YYYY] indicates the so-called ISO year which is slightly different than the calendar year (see below). [Www] is the week number prefixed by the letter ‘W’, from W01 through W53. [D] is the weekday number, from 1 through 7, beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday.

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