By Rainer Stropek on 3/26/2007

Für die Microsoft Big>Days 2007 haben wir einen Video-Trailer produziert. Werfen Sie doch einen Blick darauf... Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 3/19/2007

In my SQL Server 2005 session at the Microsoft Big>Days 2007, I show how easy it is to handle SMS or email messages in SQL Server. I use SQLCLR to write a table valued function (TVF) that returns all emails from a POP account. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 3/3/2007

Today I connected my iPod Nano to my Vista Machine. I had some troubles with it, but I could solve it. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 2/24/2007

Those of you who take a look at our blogs from time to time, recognized that we have not written very much during the last few weeks. The reason was a hell of work that we invested in preparing for two conferences on which we will do sessions, the BASTA and the Microsoft Big>Days. Read this blog if you want to know what we are going to show there... Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 2/17/2007

Using "select *" in views is sometimes useful if you want to make sure that all columns of an underlying table are included in your view's result. However, it can lead to very nasty errors that are hard to find. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 2/14/2007

Auf den Big>Days 2007 werde ich u.a. eine Session über SQL Server 2005 halten. Harald Leitenmüller von Microsoft Österreich hat dazu mit mir einen Podcast aufgenommen. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 2/14/2007

I already blogged that we, Karin Huber and I, have written an article about data editing applications using WPF. Now you can ready it online. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 1/2/2007

Yesterday night we finished our next article for the German MSDN magazine. This time my collegue Karin Huber and I will focus on how to write data-oriented WPF applications. We also present an editable Version of ListView. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 11/7/2006

Tomorrow I have to do a presentation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOS). By now I just had a single machine to demo MOS. However, I had some issues demonstrating all functions of MOS. Therefore I decided to setup a new, clean demo environment consisting of three virtual computers. This is not as easy as I thought... Read More »

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 »