MSDN Ultimate Subscription giveaway +1(blogs.lessthandot.com)

submitted by ca8msm(429) 1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft was kind enough to give me 3 MSDN Ultimate Subscriptions. I gave two of these away already, I have one left for the readers of Lessthandot.com. read more...

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comments Programatically create a sharepoint calendar entry(blogs.lessthandot.com)

submitted by ca8msm(429) 1 year, 11 months ago

We recently had a requirement to programatically create an entry in an existing Sharepoint calendar, so here is an example of how we went about doing this. I'll be using Visual Studio 2008 for this, but the process will be similar for any other versions you are using. First of all, you will need to add a reference to one of the Sharepoint web references, so right-click your project and select Add Web Reference. You'll then be presented with a screen that asks you for a URL for that web service, so go ahead and write it in the following format: read more...

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Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers(blogs.lessthandot.com)

submitted by SQL_Menace(4890) 3 years, 2 months ago

A nice collection of puzzles. Some are harder than others so there is something for everyone. You can choose any language you want, you will see that there are solutions in C#, Ruby, Python, Visual Basic, SQL, JavaScript, C++ and other languages. read more...

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An Interview With Kevin Kline About SQL In A Nutshell Third Edition(blogs.lessthandot.com)

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An Interview With Kevin Kline About SQL In A Nutshell Third Edition. SQL In A Nutshell covers MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL server read more...

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SQL Server - Set based random numbers(blogs.lessthandot.com)

submitted by dnk2007(765) 3 years, 4 months ago

SQL Server - Set based random numbers The problem with the rand function occurs when you use set based operations. read more...

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The Ten Most Asked SQL Server Questions And Their Answers(blogs.lessthandot.com)

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Then 10 most asked SQL Server Programming questions and their answer read more...

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SQL Server Precision And Scale Problems(blogs.lessthandot.com)

submitted by SQL_Menace(4890) 3 years, 6 months ago

Many people are confused about SQL Server’s precision and scale. This is unfortunate because choosing the correct values for precision and scale is critically important when you perform math operations using the decimal/numeric data type read more...

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Troubleshooting blocking 101 on sql-server(blogs.lessthandot.com)

submitted by chrissie1(370) 3 years, 6 months ago

How to find out which process is blickong in SQL-server 2005 read more...

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An interview with Roy Osherove author of "The Art of Unit Testing"(blogs.lessthandot.com)

submitted by chrissie1(370) 3 years, 7 months ago

A short interview with Roy Osherove, author of a new book "The Art of Unit Testing" and known blogger, who works on Typemock Isolator. read more...

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An interview with Louis Davidson author of pro sql server 2008(blogs.lessthandot.com)

submitted by dnk2007(765) 3 years, 8 months ago

Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation is one of those books that should be in the hands of every SQL Server developer. There are tons of SQL Server programming books around but none of them covers the fundamentals of a good SQL Server database, the design. If your design is ‘broken’ then it is a lot harder to fix it down the road, design is probably the number one reason people have all kinds of problems with their databases. read more...

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LINQ to SQL queries involving strings cause SQL Server procedure cache(blogs.lessthandot.com)

submitted by SQL_Menace(4890) 3 years, 8 months ago

Be careful when using LINQ. If an application is using LINQ to SQL and the queries involve the use of strings that can be highly variable in length, the SQL Server procedure cache will become bloated with one version of the query for every possible string length read more...

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Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few L(blogs.lessthandot.com)

submitted by dnk2007(765) 3 years, 9 months ago

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code read more...

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LTD Puzzle VIII - Converting between Roman and Arabic Numerals(forum.lessthandot.com)

submitted by AlexCuse(325) 3 years, 9 months ago

The puzzle this week is simple. Write a program to convert to (and from) roman numerals. So your program should be able to take the input of 27 and return XXVII, and take MCMLXXXI and return 1981. And of course any other values.... read more...

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nHibernate performance against stored procedures(blogs.lessthandot.com)

submitted by dnk2007(765) 3 years, 10 months ago

A 5 part blogpost about the performance of a select statement done with ADO.Net using inline sql, and stored procedures (even some dynamic sql) and then nHibernate to get the same results. But this one has an alternate ending. read more...

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5 Books Every Developer Should Read(blogs.lessthandot.com)

submitted by SQL_Menace(4890) 3 years, 10 months ago

Which books should you read/buy when you are a programmer? I have listed 5 books that have helped me a lot. The books that I have chosen are not specific to any language although some of the books have examples in one language only read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 - Using Ajax and Ajax.Form(hanselman.com)

submitted by glennen(310) 3 years, 10 months ago

Hanselman explains how to use the new AjaxHelper in Asp.Net MVC Preview 4. read more...

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