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February 2008 - Posts

• Microsoft's Answer to Google Gears?

  "How do you allow users of a web application tool to use tool while working off-line?" I was looking into Google Gears as a possible answer to the above question. In fact I was watching this very interesting Google Gears presentation by Aaron Boodman Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:45 AM by Tod Birdsall | 7 Comments Filed under: Sync Framework

• What's Your Database Versioning Process?

  If you are not putting your database objects under source control, you should check out this article by Jeff Atwood . I have been investigating several methods and tools for database version control and I think I am going to settle on something as simple Read More... Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 5:17 PM by Tod Birdsall | 5 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• March 2008 BDNUG Meeting Canceled

  I invited Dave Bost to speak at our March Bloomington .NET Users Group meeting but he said he couldn't make it because that was the same day as the Launch Event (March 11th). For whatever reason, the fact that our monthly meeting is schedule on the same Read More... Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 12:42 PM by Tod Birdsall | 3 Comments Filed under: BDNUG

• Weekly Humor: Can you prove your stupid?

  Sometimes you just have to laugh out loud at Dilbert comics . Read More... Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 10:40 AM by Tod Birdsall | 3 Comments Filed under: Humor

• BDNUG: February 2008 Meeting Summary

  If you were not at last weeks Bloomington .NET Users Group meeting, you really missed out. INETA provided Daniel Egan as our guest speaker, his topic was LINQ and he did a great job of presenting his material. Here is a summary of what else you missed: Read More... Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:08 AM by Tod Birdsall | 3 Comments Filed under: BDNUG

• How-To : Search table column names in SQL Server database

  Problem I have a SQL Server 2000 database with 50 tables. One of the tables is called Person and the primary key in that table is PersonID. I want to find out how many other tables reference the PersonID. Solution I used the following T-SQL code to search Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:00 AM by Tod Birdsall | 2 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• Article of the Week: Three Rules for Database Work

  Article: Three Rules for Database Work Author: K. Scott Allen Description: Short article on why database versioning is worthwhile. This article begins a whole series of articles on database versioning. They should come in handy while we continue to progress Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:05 AM by Tod Birdsall | 4 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Continuos Integration