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SQL Server Tips at Microsoft.com

This is possibly old news, but I just noticed some SQL Server administration and development Tips and Tricks at the Microsoft SQL Server site. Worth checking out. Read more →

Specifying SQL Server port numbers in .NET

An interesting post from Chris Stewart about using a non-standard port for SQL Server and using .NET to talk to it. .NET requires that you specify the port number with a comma, not the usual (and standard) colon. Read more →

Fun with the SPACE function

I'm doing a little bit of ASP maintainance work for the company I'm contracting with at the moment. I had a small task to indent items in a drop down select list in line with their level in a hierarchy tree. Read more →