By Rainer Stropek on 10/9/2006

Todays I had the situation that the performance of a SQL Server 2005 (with SP1) at one of my customers was very poor. It took minutes to start SQL Mgmt. Studio, opening a SSIS package was endlessly slow, etc. After some hours of research we found out that the problem was the update of the CRL (Certificate Revokation List). Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 10/6/2006

Finally I have it im my hands, the October/November issue of the German msdn magazine with my article "The World in XAML" in it. It is about some principles of WPF programming demonstrated in a sample that shows how to implemented world maps in XAML. In this blog I want to summarize the most important parts. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 10/2/2006

If you have to implement a large number of standard reports in BusinessObjects (BO), it is important to define a set of quality criteria. In this article I want to suggest such criteria. They are focused on reporting implemented with BO but I am sure that you can use a similiar quality checklist for other report generators. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 9/26/2006

Regularly I have to refresh a set of BusinessObjects XI 2 (BOXI 2) Desktop Intelligence reports. This can be a boring task. Therefore I have written a short VBA macro that is able to refresh a list of reports specified in an Excel worksheet and export them into PDF files. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 8/23/2006

I am very happy with my BlackBerry 8700 device. Today I finally managed to use it as a gprs modem for my laptop. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 6/19/2006

If running on SQL Server SAP claims codepage SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_BIN. If you want to transfer data from a SAP DB Server into your e. g. data warehouse server which uses SQL Server's standard collation Latin1_General_CI_AS it will probably not work correctly without changing some configuration options. My article tells you more about how to solve this problem without loosing performance. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 6/14/2006

Unsere beiden Vorträge bei den Microsoft BigDays 2006 zu ATLAS und BizTalk landeten bei der Besucherbewertung beide in den Top 5 - und der ATLAS Vortrag von Mäx und mir wurde sogar Nummer 1. :-)) Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 6/10/2006

This article shows a way how to create a 3D sphere in C# and XAML Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 6/5/2006

One of the major benefits of WPF compared to technologies like Flash is built-in support for 3d. However, WPF and XAML currently support only the most basic structure of a mesh: the triangle. If you want to have more complex things like a disc or a sphere you have to do the math yourself. In my sample I want to show how a mesh for a disc can be generated in XAML using resources. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 6/1/2006

A lot of my customers like to use SQL Server's Maintenance Plans. Even though it offers a wide range of tasks there are still some important things missing. Therefore I wanted to find out how to extend the list of tasks - and I failed :-( Read More »