Just saw this over on Robert Scoble's blog.
MSN Messenger is now running on a SQL Server backend. That's way cool.
If that isn't a good advertisement for SQL Server's scalability I don't know what is.
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I just got a few comment spams in my blog. This is fairly common so I usually don’t mind so much.
Except these ones were from ApexSQL Software, formally Lockwood Tech.
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Jon Galloway blogs about a website hack. A clever use of SQL Injection that will really make the site owners look bad.
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Tara
2004-05-06
re: SQL Injection used to create trigger That is very interesting.
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I was just chatting to a friend of mine who runs an online business, he was asking me about stored procs because he had been told by two people (including someone who works at the hosting company) that stored procs don't scale!
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I was listening to the Brian Noyes episode of DotNetRocks today and one of his recommended essential tools was QuickCode.Net, a Visual Studio addin for code expansion. Essentially, this works like a macro that pastes in simple code templates based on a pattern.
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Microsoft have released the SQL Server Web Data Administrator. A web intrerface to managing your datbases, users, stored procedures and for running ad-hoc queries.
via Mike Gunderloy
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Justin
2004-02-18
re: SQL Server Web Administrator Downloaded and installed.
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Google has come under fire over the past year for allowing it's prized search results to become "polluted" by weblogs and webloggers. The latest venture by the search giant, a "social networking" site named Orkut looks like suffering the same fate.
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It's the time of year that Microsoft start announcing the new MVPs. The big news around here is that Graz is finally an MVP. Graz started and built SQLTeam back in 2000 and the site and forums have helped out thousands of SQL Server developers since then, as well as becoming a second home for a bunch of us.
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It seems the comment spambots have figured out .Text. I've had three spams today left in my comments.
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Scott Mitchell
2004-01-10
re: Blog Comment Spam Yeah, blog comment spam sucks.
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Actually, there is an updated version that supports categories.
When Graz gets around to updating Weblogs.Sqlteam.com to .Text 0.95 we can take advantage of that...hint hint....
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Mark told me about a new .Text posting plugin for Newsgator.
If you can read this, it works!.
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Good article here. I'm posting here as a bookmark for myself, but also so you should check it if you haven't already.
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Sounds like a headline from The Onion doesn't it ?
Something I've mentioned once or twice is my annoyance at people who use the GUI tools that Microsoft supply as an excuse to not know what is actually going along behind the scenes.
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Mike Gunderloy wrote an excellent article introducing the use of CLR code to manipulate data in Yukon.
If you are wondering what .NET stored procs are going to look like, check this article out.
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Phil Scott gives an excellent rundown on why your application shouldn't use the SA account to log in with.
This link might serve you well as a handy page slap next time you see "sa" in a connection string.
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A good article at AspAlliance on using CodeSmith for generating database documentation.
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Steps to reproduce
Link in and call a .DLL from an ASP.NET application. Not notice the debug code (* See appendix a) you left in there 2 weeks ago while you were experimenting with something.
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SQLTeam.com just went public about some new toys we have been playing with over the last few weeks. The first is... The SQLTeam.com Article RSS feed. Get it at http://www.sqlteam.com/rss.asp.
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Rob Howard lays the smack down on anyone not using stored procedures for data access in their ASP.NET applications. Keep this link handy for the next time someone brings up the "but I want to be database independant" argument.
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I just published a new article on SQLTeam titled "Using the PARSENAME function to split delimited data". I've already had a few comments from people about the code coloring in the article.
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