By Rainer Stropek on 4/26/2007

Foreign keys just cost performance and INNER JOINS are always better than OUTER JOINS. Is that true?? Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 4/25/2007

A few days ago I received a cry for help from one of my customers in Germany. Unfortunately I was sitting in a meeting room in Italy. However, using the right tools support works across Europe! Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 4/19/2007

A field report about the results of enabling the VarDecimal Storage Format Option in SQL 2005 Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 4/15/2007

Gestern war Linz-Marathon - und wir cubido-Läufer sind mit unserem Ergebnis sehr zufrieden! Read More »

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

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 »