Tag: SQL Server

May 19, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Welcome to Camp! Portland Code Camp 3.0 (as was 2.0) is being hosted at the gorgeous WSU Vancouver campus. There are quite a few attendees here. I counted around 90 at this morning's welcome …

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Transcript from today's VSTS Chats

Apr 27, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Today's chats were well attended, with many experts and well over a hundred guests. The quests came fast and furious, with some great answers given by the experts. It seems people are really …

SQL Server Visual Studio ALM

New, simpler AdventureWorks sample database

Apr 20, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Trainers and presenters have been wanting a sample database that is less complex than AdventureWorks, but more interesting than Northwind. Thanks to my friends at SolidQ for letting me know about …

SQL Server

Any SQL Injectors out there?

Mar 28, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

SQL Injection attacks are a well know exploit of insecure database systems. If you don’t know about SQL Injection, you can change that by visiting Wikipedia. If you feel like injecting some SQL …

SQL Server

A flurry of VSTS announcements

Mar 28, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I've been in Orlando this week, speaking at SQL Connections and have been derelict in my blogging duties, especially with regard to VSTS. Microsoft announced on Monday that they had acquired DevBiz …

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SqlSpec from Elsasoft

Mar 18, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

We all have our favorite database structure generator or schema reporting tool. Maybe we have built one of them in the past. I always tell my clients that it's a great "first application" to …

SQL Server

Using the ReportViewer control in .NET 2.0?

Mar 9, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

One of the coolest controls that Visual Studio 2005 includes is the report design and view functionality of the ReportViewer controls. What used to be a server-only function, .RDL …

Visual Studio Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server 2005 Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007

Feb 21, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Over the weekend Microsoft released some cool add-ins for Excel 2007 and Visio 2007: Table Analysis Tools for Excel - this add-in provides you with easy-to-use tasks that leverage SQL Server 2005 …

SQL Server

Converting Crystal Reports (.rpt) to Reporting Services reports (.rdl)

Feb 21, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

There are way too many Crystal Reports out there in the world and I would love to see more of them converted to Reporting Services. Therein lies the problem. I had heard that Crystal (now …

SQL Server