Thursday, May 28, 2009

Neighbours' shock as cows invade housing estate - Rugby Today - Back to Home Page
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Its ol news but only just came across it - wish Id have moved here sooner!
Neighbours' shock as cows invade housing estate - Rugby Today - Back to Home Page: "Neighbours' shock as cows invade housing estate"
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Friday, May 15, 2009

How to use SQL Server T-SQL cursors | Microsoft SQL Server Advisor
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This is a brilliant little example script what absoluted HAVE TO use a cursor - my take generally on this is "If you have to use a cursor youre doing it wrong", however during some work for a client I needed to "duplicate" a hierarchy of items from different nested tables with foreign key references for a questionnaire something along the lines of
Questionnaire table links to Questions table, Questions table links to QuestionLinking table (Where a dependancy between one question and another is held) and so forth. I spent a while looking for a "clean" solution but the only option I found was to iterate through each Questionnaire, Question and Question link at a time as I needed to update the QuestionnaireId, QuestionId and QuestionLinkId from the Source Questionnaire to the Destination Questionnnaire row equivalents... if you have any patterns or approaches tot his type of thing not involving cursors I would love to hear from you!

How to use SQL Server T-SQL cursors Microsoft SQL Server Advisor
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Internet Explorer 8: Videos
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Internet Explorer 8: Videos: "Internet Explorer 8: Videos" these, whilst very"microsoft", "vision of the future", "overly gloosy with an irritatingly up-beat narrator", if you know what I mean; much like the Windows Tour video (which i always make a bee line for when a new O/S is released), is actually very informative, concise and easy to understand. It shows key new features and how they work giving a very good insight into the lovely new "community" features. Well worth 5 minutes of your time!! Note: Especially useful is the Compatibility feature which, a developer, I might just find ver handy if it does indeed invoke the previous versions' of IE' rendering engines!
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