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Day May 1, 2009

Rated G for Nerdy Content

My fellow DBAs and SQL Server Developers, have you ever worried about being associated with other, perverted, developers who might use profanity or nudity in their presentations? Are you concerned that people might not know what kind of content to expect in your presentations?

Worry no more!

Even C++ developers can understand this!

Even C++ developers can understand this!

Now you can declare to the world that your presentation is free of filth and only contains worthwhile knowledge and information. No more will people confuse you with some kind of filth monger. No more will people cringe in fear when you mention your up time. Rejoice my fellow developers!

Links for the Week of 2009.05.01

SQL Server

Where isn’t there automatic <insert feature> in SQL Server? What’s great is that a co-worker and I were arguing about this very thing last night. He wanted to know why there wasn’t a ‘better language’ than SQL to use that would make it easier/more optimal to use functions while querying a database. I tried to explain that it wasn’t SQL that was the issue but dealing with a variety of optimizations and what not. I didn’t do a good job. Paul does a good job of explaining. Go read Paul’s take on things.

Microsoft Project Gemini links Occasionally I’ll get asked about Project Gemini links, usually right after I talk about the demos we were shown way back in November at PASS. Now I have a resource, thanks to Donald Farmer.

Analyze This – Analyze Your Indexes Part 6 Jason Strate concludes his series of articles on analyzing index with this amazing finale of a query.

Development

ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!) A great over view of an error logging/handling module. I hate writing this stuff, I really do. Why bother re-implementing it with minor variations? Why not just configure something? Now you can.

Is it time to move beyond 960? Cameron Moll dares to ask the important question: Can we finally make web pages for people with normal size monitors?

Stuff & Things

The #1 Secret to Building Your Skill Set is… I’ll the secret out: it’s discipline. Read on for some great tips from KBK.

… I have no words for how cool this is

Delicious Library scanning Have Delicious Library? Want to get a USB barcode scanner to work on your mac but don’t know how? Now you do.

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