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October 2005 - Posts

Step into your customer's shoes - Posted by Avi
Many of the tools we write are used by the DevDiv Build Lab to get their job done. Cranking out 50-100 builds per night takes more than just a few fast servers, a great staff, and lots of alcohol ( kidding! ). There's only so many things you can keep Read More...
Funny SQL2005 Maintenance Features (posted by Paul)
In SQL2000 maintenance plans if you want to backup databases there is an option to allow you to create a subfolder for each database that gets backed-up. And the same dialog is nice enough to ask if you want to remove backups older than x amount of days. Read More...
Some things I learned about SQL Indexing Tuning recently (posted by Paul)
Where to put the clustered index Last month there was a heated discussion in our group about whether to move the clustered index of a table from the primary key (int identity) to two columns that are heavily referenced in queries. Many people would think Read More...
Disabling an <asp:button> (posted by Aaron)
I consistently see people looking for easy ways to disable asp:buttons after they're clicked. The most common problem is that a user will click a button 20+ times not knowing that their action has been sent to the server. As you know, this can create Read More...
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