Archives for Language features, Development Methodologies - Page 16
Changing Outlook’s Theme–making it less bright
Outlook’s default color scheme is far too bright and hurts the eyes. Fortunately, some other themes are built into the product. To get to these options, navigate from the File…
SQL Server Licensing – Processor versus Client Access Server licensing
Suppose you have a web app that connects to the SQL Server instance using a PREDEFINED SQL Server user (typically an ‘sa’ user). This is the ONLY user that actually…
Insert documents in Outlook Body
For some reason, I prefer the inserts to be in the body as opposed to attachments. They are easier to get to (by the recipient) and they can be placed…
LINQ–search for items in a list that are present in another list
Suppose you have a list of strings – a nursery rhyme may be a good ; And you need to find ALL the words that match from another list of…
Data Security in SQL Server (and other databases)
If you have sensitive data ( HIPAA data), you need to consider both encryption as well as SALTING of your data at the database level. Encryption Prior to 2008, SQL…
Top 20 worst performing SQL Server queries
Top 20 worst performing queries --------------------------------- and thus you would see "similar" query text in the proc cache each with its separate compiled plans */ DECLARE @SQLString nvarchar(500) DECLARE @cnt…
Adding a user to subversion, granting access to a subfolder
Let us say you added a new user (called newuser) - and want to grant her access to your subfolder myproject/sourceYou would modify the Authz file - by adding the…
Maintenance Plan for SQL Server 2014
These scripts are owned and developed by Ola Hallengren DatabaseBackup: SQL Server Backup DatabaseIntegrityCheck: SQL Server Integrity Check IndexOptimize: SQL Server Index and Statistics Maintenance Download Maintainance Script for…
TFS 2013 –show me all the conflicts only
To only view the conflicts (conflicting files) for pending checkins in TFS 2013, try the following: View TFS Conflicts Only Go to Team Explorer Select Pending changes In the Pending…
SQL Server Database CPU Utilization and Memory Usage
Apart from Query Performance analysis and Schema Objects analysis (indices, statistics etc.), there are two important metrics that are usually sought out for a poorly performing SQL Server instance. These…