TechEd 2010 Important Events
If you'll be attending TechEd in New Orleans in a couple of weeks, make sure the following are all on your calendar:
Blog Posts
MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.
Dont Throw Duplicate Exceptions
In your code, you'll sometimes have write code that validates input
Custom Configuration Section Handlers
Most.NET developers who need to store something in configuration
Could not load type System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler
If you upgrade older.NET sites from 1.x to 2.x or greater, you may encounter this error when you have configuration settings that look like this:
Sql Table Refactoring Challenge
I've been working a bit on cleaning up a large table to make it
Detect Unicode Usage in SQL Column and Optimize Storage
One optimization you can make to a SQL table that is overly large
Government Mandates and Programming Languages
A recent SEC proposal(which, at over 600 pages, I haven’t read in any detail) includes the following: “We are proposing to require the filing of a computer program (the"waterfall computer program,” …
Sql Server Prevent Saving Changes That Require Table to be Re-created
When working with SQL Server Management studio, if you use the Design view of a table and attempt to make a change that will require the table to be dropped and re-added, you may receive an error message like this one: