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Katmai: Variable Initialization and Assignment Operators

It’s again. Today I’m going to go over two new enhancements related to TSQL variables and how they...

Author: duncandavenport Date: 08/23/2007

Best Practices : The Truth of the Schema is In The Database Project

Wednesday is at ZoDD. This is the day for focusing on the Whys behind the Hows of using Visual...

Author: duncandavenport Date: 08/22/2007

Getting DataDude, or What Do I Install Next?

Monday is at ZoDD. Monday’s we’ll be discussing some subject that relates directly to Visual Studio...

Author: duncandavenport Date: 08/20/2007

Samples: Registering Extensions for VSTS.DBPro

Friday is at ZoDD, where I’ll try to bring you some working code samples that leverage features and...

Author: duncandavenport Date: 08/17/2007

Katmai: Looking into Row Constructors

Thursday is here at ZoDD, and today I’m going to be discussing the first in a series of posts...

Author: duncandavenport Date: 08/16/2007

Return of the Blogging Dead

So, embarassingly enough, this blog has been devoid of activity for some time now. Well, let's see...

Author: duncandavenport Date: 08/15/2007

DBPro - Public CTP for Service Release 1 released.

Ok, let's do the big news first... The One and Only Public CTP for DB Pro's Service Release 1 - has...

Author: duncandavenport Date: 05/07/2007

Datadude and the Text Filegroup

So, we had an interesting problem crop up from a European customer, and investigating it uncovered...

Author: duncandavenport Date: 01/27/2007

Why not Insanity?

Writing the first entry in a blog has always seemed to be the hardest. Since this is a new year, and...

Author: duncandavenport Date: 01/03/2007