SQL

Suresh Sreedharan ISV Architect Evangelist sits down with Bob Abernethy, SVP & GM at Strategy Companion to talk about their BI offering.

Margus Veanes and Pavel Grigorenko present a new exciting project: Qex. Pavel did an internship in the Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) investigating automatic data generation methods for parameterized SQL queries. In this video, he shows the result of his 3-month…

Jim O’Neil, Developer Evangelist, closes out his five part series covering topics on SQL Server for developers with an overview of execution plan generation.  Using SQL Server Management Studio it’s easy (and fun) to watch how queries are optimized and thereby get a better insight into…

SQL Server Profiler is a tool every developer should have in their repertoire. With the use of frameworks and abstractions, we often lose sight of what is actually hitting the database, and there’s no better way to get that information than SQL Server Profiler. It has a few knobs and dials that…

Jim O’Neil, Developer Evangelist, continues his five-part series on what developers should know about SQL Server. In this third segment, he takes a look at the components of a SQL Server error as well as some of their nuances and suggests techniques for handling errors on both the server-side in…

In this second of a series on what developers should know about SQL Server, Jim takes a brief look at SQL Injection attacks, how they occur and what types of things you can do (as well as things you shouldn’t do!) to eliminate your susceptibility to them. Also mentioned are a number of third-party…

WeatherBug, the leading provider of weather information services, manages and operates a proprietary network of over 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations and more than 1,000 cameras that are strategically placed at schools, public safety facilities and television stations throughout the U.S. These…

Microsoft SQL Data Services (SDS) offers highly scalable and Internet-facing distributed database services in the cloud for storing and processing relational queries. In this geekSpeak webcast, James Johnson provides an overview of working with SQL Data Services—what it is, how it works, why you…

In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Rachel Appel introduces you to the Microsoft ASP.NET Dynamic Data framework, discusses how it came to be, and shows how ASP.NET Dynamic Data makes it easy to maintain your Web sites. Rachel also covers creating customizations at the…

  Arkansas Children’s Hospital Every so often I come across organizations and people that truly blow me away. Pediatric hospitals have always been known for innovative ideas in the care of their young patients. So, it comes as no surprise that a pediatric hospital would rise to the occasion to…