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Monodevelop and Nancy and VB.Net
This morning I wrote on how to install monodevelop and now I will make my first website using monodevelop. First thing to do when you work with monodevelop is to install the nuget-plugin. Now create a...
View ArticleThreadsafe Incrementing in C#
Recently I’ve had the opportunity to review a number of different parallel C# methods that were performing work over a collection of items. Nearly all of them have used ++ to increment parent or global...
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Speaking at SQL Server Days 2014
I am absolutely delighted to share the great news that I have been selected as one of the speakers for the 2014 edition of the SQL Server Days in Belgium. It is one of the biggest SQL Server events in...
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Tableau Dashboard Cookbook by Jen Stirrup
DISCLAIMER I received this book through the O’Reilly blogger review program, which I already mentioned in the review of Thinking With Data. The actual publisher of the book is Packt Publishing, not...
View ArticleOverview of Published Articles – 2014Q2
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the second quarter of 2014. Intense School MCSE Prep: The Integration Services Package and Project Deployment Models—Part 1 MCSE Prep: The Integration...
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Creating a Matrix Infographic in SSRS
With “Matrix Infographic” I simply mean those infographics FiveThirtyEight (site | Twitter), the website of statistic revelation Nate Silver, uses to display forecasts of World cup matches. An example:...
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Modeling the Agile Data Warehouse with Data Vault – Review
A few months ago I followed an introductory course about the data vault modeling technique for data warehouses at a local training provider. As part of the training, I received the book Modeling the...
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Merge Replication for SQL Server Auditing
I recently had the pleasure of presenting for the Adelaide SQL Server User Group. I truly enjoyed the presentation and the group attending. The best part of this presentation is, it was on Merge...
View ArticleClient-side vs Server-side Validation in Web Applications
Validation exists to “ensure that the application is robust against all forms of input data” (owasp.org). Invalid data can cause unexpected execution errors, break assumptions elsewhere in your...
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Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook – Review
After my review of Tableau Dashboard Cookbook, I read another book about Tableau, namely Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook by Ashutosh Nandeshwar. The book is published by Packt but I am relieved to...
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LobsterPot Solutions US
As many of you know, Rob Farley and I have been friends for quite a number of years. You may have also seen Rob’s post on SQLBlog recently announcing that Rob and I have taken that friendship and...
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Stupid me #4 – The login is from an untrusted domain
After quite a while it has finally returned: another Stupid Me™®©! A reminder: Every time I do something “stupid”, which happens from time to time, I’ll do a little blog post on what happened and how I...
View ArticleSeptember presentations
After an extended (to put it mildly) break from blogging, I’m back. One of the many reasons for less writing: more presentations! (Another is violin lessons, but that’s another story.) Here is what I...
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Automated Database Deployments – Presentation Demos
This is an outline of the tools and scripts I used to demo conversion of a sample “we make all our changes in production” database into a basic pipeline to verify and deploy changes automatically, as...
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Split a Query Window in SSMS
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has a lot of cool little tips and tricks. Last night, while presenting for 24 Hours of PASS, I used the Window Split function and noticed a few “oohs” and “aaahs” on...
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Setup IaaS in Azure for SQL Server
Prior to full support for availability group listeners in Azure, we were forced to use availability groups without a key feature that makes them truly valuable – listener entry points. A listener is...
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The Magic Alt Button
Lately I have been using more and more the awesomeness of the Alt-button in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). What do I mean with this? While holding the Alt-button on your keyboard, you can select...
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Who I am voting for – PASS Board
All this negative junk flying around makes for a waste of a lot of time. Negative is good but there is always a positive. Although, I’m thinking…how about the real reason of me telling you I am voting...
View ArticlePASS elections are here, and this is who I’m supporting
It’s time for the annual PASS Board of Directors elections! If you work with SQL Server and aren’t familiar with the PASS organization, please take a few minutes to check it out. (Also note that if you...
View ArticleOctober Presentations
This year is flying by! September has been an excellent month. My 24 Hours of PASS Summit preview session went well, speaking for user groups is always encouraging, and IT/Dev Connections was a blast!...
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