Hey! What do you know? Microsoft Connect really works!
I was very happy this morning to open my email and find a notice from Umachandar on the SQL Programmability Team that they have created a fix for the Odd Profiler Results with EF4 issue that I wrote about last June.
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In parts one and two of this series, I have been specifically focusing on the latest version of SQL Source Control by Red Gate Software. But I have been doing source-controlled SQL development for years, long before this product was available, and well before Microsoft came out with Database Projects for Visual Studio.
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In Part 1, I started talking about using Red-Gate’s newest version of SQL Source Control and how I really like it as a viable method to source control your database development.
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I am fanatical when it comes to managing the source code for my company. Everything that we build (in source form) gets put into our source control management system. And I’m not just talking about the UI and middle-tier code written in C# and ASP.
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If I didn’t know better, I would think that K. Brian Kelley (blog | twitter) has been listening in on conversations with my boss.
In his recent blog post Successful Teams: Knowing When to Step Out of Your Role, Brian describes quite clearly a philosophy that my boss has been trying to get across to everyone in the department.
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Last week I attended my eighth PASS Summit in nine years, and every year it is a fantastic event! I was fortunate my first year to have a contact (Bill Graziano (blog | Twitter) from SQLTeam) that I was expecting to meet, and who got me started on a good track of making new contacts.
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Woodrow Wilson was once asked how long it would take him to prepare for a 10 minute speech. He replied "Two weeks". He was then asked how long it would take for a 1 hour speech.
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A couple of months ago I wrote a post about Odd Profiler Results with Entity Framework 4. Thanks to Olaf Tinnemeyer, we now have a simple work-around that he posted to my question on StackOverflow.
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As a follow-up to my previous post Odd Profiler Results with EF4, I have now logged a SQL Server bug to Microsoft Connect. If you have similar concerns, I encourage you to logon to Connect and vote it up.
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I attended the Web Camp in Redmond last Friday at the Microsoft Conference Center. It was a really nice setup in the room with rows of tables (plenty of space between them) and long power strips so every attendee could plug-in their laptop.
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Have you ever been asked a stupid question during an interview; one that seemed to have no relation to the job responsibilities at all? Tech people are often caught off-guard by these apparently irrelevant questions, but there is a way you can turn these to your favor.
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I attended my first SQLSaturday a couple of days ago, SQLSaturday #43 in Redmond (at Microsoft). I got there really early, primarily because I forgot how fast I can get there from my home when nobody else is on the road.
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I have been doing some testing of using the Microsoft Entity Framework 4 with stored procedures and ran across some really odd results in SQL Server Profiler.
The application that is running which uses Entity Framework 4 is a simple Web Application written in C#, and the Entity Data Model is actually contained in a referenced class library of its own.
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Recently, SQL Sentry told me something about my SQL Server disk configurations that I just didn’t want to believe, but alas, it was true.
Several days ago I posted my First Impressions of the SQL Sentry Power Suite.
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I’m not a big fan of the built-in Maintenance Plan functionality in SQL Server. I like the interface in SQL 2005 better than 2000 (it looks more like building an SSIS package) but it’s still a bit of a black box.
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The Professional Development Virtual Chapter for PASS is holding its first virtual meeting on Thursday, May 13 at 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacfic time. Andy Warren (@sqlandy) will be the speaker.
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After struggling to defend my SQL Servers from a political attack recently, I realized that I needed better tools to back me up, and SQL Sentry is the leading candidate.
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I love the Mythbusters television show. That has to be one of the coolest jobs in the world…it involves investigation, problem solving, science, trial & error, searching for the truth, robotics and remote controls, and in the end, you usually get to blow stuff up.
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Seth Godin has some wise words for all bloggers to keep in mind in his recent post When a Stranger Reads Your Blog.
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Vampal
2010-05-06
re: Godin on First Impressions -_- the butterfly effects
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I have certainly been reading blogs a whole lot more than writing them the last several weeks, and it’s about time I got back to writing. I have been collecting several topics and references for blog posts…some of which will probably just never get written as the timeliness of the topics fade over time.
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