Archive for June, 2012

What’s your mantra?

Iâve been busy lately making the shift from âhands-on engineerâ to âhands-off managerâ; itâs been tough, because Iâm not accustomed to stepping away from a problem and letting someone else figure it out. Even though Iâve got an education background, and have been (inconsistently) involved in technical communities helping other people solve problems, Iâve never [...]

June 25, 2012 Â· stuart Â· One Comment
Posted in: Good Habits, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication

#TSQL2sDay.. For Whom Do You Log?

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Aaron Nelson [blog | twitter]; since Iâm posting this late in the day, I got a chance to sneak a peek at some of the other entries, and most of them were great technical discussions on how to log, what to log, and why you should log. [...]

June 12, 2012 Â· stuart Â· No Comments
Posted in: SQLServerPedia Syndication, TSQL2sDay

AtlantaMDF Reviews

Kick some SSAS - Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services 2010-08-06

Recently finished (cover-cover) reading of Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services. Since then I've gone through a number of chapters several times as topics aligned themselves with work efforts. Looking at this book today, I noticed the covers are all curled, the pages dog-eared, and yellow highlighter is visible across […]

DBAMark

SharePoint 2007 Developerâs Guide to Business Data Catalog 2009-11-24

SharePoint 2007 developerâs Guide to Business Data Catalog is an essential guide to anyone who wishes to become proficient in building complex SharePoint applications. This book starts off assuming that the reader is a complete beginner to BDC, and explains in detail what it is. Soon afterwards, the reader is taught what can be done with it and how.The book […]

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The Art of Unit Testing 2009-11-08

As a Database Architect, I often work with Object-Oriented Programmers, but thankfully donât often have to code in other languages other than SQL.Â However, it is useful to understand the methods and basic frameworks by which my team members develop; hence, I decided to review Roy Osheroveâs The Art of Unit Testing (Manning Press, 2009).Â Although many of th […]

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