October 2007 - Posts
Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications is now available on MSDN. I am still going through the version I downloaded a few weeks ago, now I'll probabyl read the whole thing on-line - I find that somehow having the table of contents on the left-hand
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Not too long ago, I happened to write a post mentioning how good SQL Books Online is. Well, turns out that just today I discovered that the SQL Server User Education team has its own blog. Well, one of the highly nifty things they've already posted is
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If you're going to the TechEd event in Barcelona next week, you'll get to hear Pablo talking about Astoria. If you're at all interested, I encourage you to pick his brains - he's quite good at giving straightforward explanations if you have questions
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A few days ago a friend of mine asked for some books I could recommend about developing databases. This is my personal list based on personal likes – to be extra clear, this is not an endorsement from my employer. An Introduction to Database Systems,
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It's Friday afternoon, and this is so destined to be an off-topic post... Here's the thing. For the last year or so, I've been the proud owner of a Sony PRS-500 , a gift from my beloved wife. Awesome, awesome gadget. In case you are considering getting
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The other day I was trying to drop a database , but I was getting an error because it was in use. Given that I was the only user of the database, I was a bit puzzled... I had a number of programs running, and I wasn't sure which one might be holding on
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Larry Osterman includes all the links to his threat modeling series here . A must-read for folks designing all sorts of software, but especially important to higher-risk situations like Internet-facing applications.
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