May 19, 2009

Submitted by Tsudohnimh from blog: Amazing surf shots. (Read More)

Mar 27, 2009

Submitted by Denis Gobo: Putin spies on Reagan while in the KGB pretending to be a tourist. (Read More)

Nov 24, 2008

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Oct 08, 2008

Press 2.0 - Communications in a digital world Google Interview Questions. (Read More)

Sep 19, 2008

SQL Server Code,Tips and Tricks, Performance Tuning I interviewed Louis Davidson in 2005 about the 2005 edition of his book. I did another one today about Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation. You can check out the interview at the link below, you will enjoy itInterview With Louis Davidson Author of Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design (Read More)

Sep 16, 2008

Denis Gobo Microsoft just released an interesting press release:  Microsoft Closes Acquisition of DATAllegroThe important stuff from this press release: Microsoft will offer a new solution based on DATAllegro’s technology that extends Microsoft SQL Server to scale into hundreds of terabytes of data. The company will begin giving custo (Read More)

Sep 22, 2008

Data Management ISO Week in SQL ServerFirst let’s take a look at what ISO week is, from WikiPedia:Week date representations are in the format as shown below.YYYY-Www or YYYYWwwYYYY-Www-D or YYYYWwwD[YYYY] indicates the so-called ISO year which is slightly different than the calendar year (see below). [Www] is the week number prefixed (Read More)

Sep 03, 2008

Silicon Alley Insider YouTube has always been very clear about the separation of editorial content and sponsored ads on its site: While the site is eager to sell advertising, placements as "featured" or "promoted" videos -- incredibly valuable, high-traffic spots on the homepage -- are not for sale.The "featured" and "promoted" videos on the hom (Read More)

Sep 04, 2008

BBC Microsoft is to cut the US price of the Xbox Arcade to $199 - cheaper than the Nintendo Wii. (Read More)

Aug 28, 2008

Data Management Adam Machanic created an item on connect explaining how LINQ to SQL queries involving strings cause SQL Server procedure cache bloatIf 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 t (Read More)

Aug 17, 2008

Data Management Take a look at this query.tsqlLine number On/Off | Show/Hide | Select allSELECT * FROM ( SELECT customer_id, ‘MTD’ AS record_type, COUNT(*), SUM(…), AVG(…) FROM payment_table  WHERE YEAR(payment_dt) = YEAR(GETDATE()) and MONTH(payment_dt) = MONTH(GETDATE())  GROUP BY customer_id) MTD_payments UNION A (Read More)

Aug 14, 2008

Submitted by Denis Gobo: A better way to create a single instance application. (Read More)

Aug 07, 2008

Data Management Visual Studio 2008 does not support having both Visual Studio 2008 without a service pack and Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 installed on the same computer. Because certain SQL Server 2008 features install components that are also part of the release version of Visual Studio 2008 SP1, SQL Server 2008 requires Visual Studio 200 (Read More)

Aug 05, 2008

Crunch Gear Steve Jobs has admitted that the MobileMe launch was “not up to Apple’s standards.” That’s in reference to all the problems the service has had since it launched last month. Jobs admitted as much in an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees, which Ars Technica got a hold of. He said MobileMe shouldn’t hav (Read More)

Jul 31, 2008

Submitted by Startrak118: Who doesn't like a helpful cheat sheet to have around? They save so much time and really help you learn what you are working with in an easy to understand format. I have gathered a list of the cheat sheets I have found to be the most helpful. There are cheat sheets from PHP to CSS to RegEx, and I have listed over 40 differe (Read More)

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