Welcome to Portland Code Camp 3.0
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
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 …
Read more →New, simpler AdventureWorks sample database
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 …
Read more →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 …
Read more →A flurry of VSTS announcements
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 …
Read more →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 …
Read more →Using the ReportViewer control in .NET 2.0?
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 …
Read more →SQL Server 2005 Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007
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 …
Read more →Converting Crystal Reports (.rpt) to Reporting Services reports (.rdl)
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 …
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