Archive for June, 2009

squeaky wheel… yada, yada

Well, I guess if you complain about something long and hard enough, things happen. Sometimes, things happen that have nothing to do with your complaining, but the coincidental correlation is so strong that your mind draws associations for it (which sometimes leads to fodder for blog posts). BTW, sorry for not posting much lately; my [...]

June 30, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Education, SQLServerPedia Syndication, VSTS:DB

SQL Server 2008 Upgrade block: SQL Server Service Health Check

I’m posting this because I hope it helps someone else avoid losing several hours of work like I did yesterday. Even though I’m a developer, I’m also the only DBA in our development group, and I was tasked with upgrading one of our dev boxes from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008. Install started OK, but [...]

June 17, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication

milestones…

Sorry for the delay in this post; my family and I are planning to get away for some much-needed vacation time, and like most Americans, the week before and the week after a vacation are the busiest weeks of the year. I’m trying to cram in as much stuff as I can before I leave, [...]

June 6, 2009 · stuart · One Comment
Posted in: Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web

AtlantaMDF Reviews

Kick some SSAS - Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services 2010-08-06

Recently finished (cover-cover) reading of Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services. Since then I've gone through a number of chapters several times as topics aligned themselves with work efforts. Looking at this book today, I noticed the covers are all curled, the pages dog-eared, and yellow highlighter is visible across […]

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SharePoint 2007 Developer’s Guide to Business Data Catalog 2009-11-24

SharePoint 2007 developer’s Guide to Business Data Catalog is an essential guide to anyone who wishes to become proficient in building complex SharePoint applications. This book starts off assuming that the reader is a complete beginner to BDC, and explains in detail what it is. Soon afterwards, the reader is taught what can be done with it and how.The book […]

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The Art of Unit Testing 2009-11-08

As a Database Architect, I often work with Object-Oriented Programmers, but thankfully don’t often have to code in other languages other than SQL. However, it is useful to understand the methods and basic frameworks by which my team members develop; hence, I decided to review Roy Osherove’s The Art of Unit Testing (Manning Press, 2009). Although many of th […]

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