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• Chris Menegay in Oklahoma City January 4th

  SPECIAL DATE Thursday, January 4th Meetings - FREE Lunch and Dinner! Chris Menegay on "Joining Forces: Assimilating Data Experts into the Development Team and Process" Our first meeting of 2007 is on a special day, Thursday, January 4th, and... Posted Jan 03 2007, 09:40 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with no comments Filed under: Sql Development, .Net Development, User Groups

• Don't Miss TechFest 2006 coming in October!

  Ok, its time that you start making plans to attend TechFest 2006 , in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday, October 14th. I will be presenting 2 sessions of my own: setting up a continuous integration server with CruiseControl.Net in the Extras track 1, and also... Posted Sep 19 2006, 11:07 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Patterns and Practices, .Net Development, OOP, Sql Development, TDD

• Sahil Malik presenting to OKC Developers Group on June 5th

  Oklahoma City Developers Group Meeting – June 5th, 2006 Our next meeting is coming up on Monday, June 5th, and we will be hosted by LSG at OSU-OKC for lunch and TEK Systems at the Downtown Library for our evening meeting. Thanks to INETA, Pizza and drinks... Posted May 30 2006, 03:38 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Sql Development

• Database Basics Part Four - Table Joins

  Author Raymond Lewallen In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, these Database Basics series of posts are targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases. Posted Feb 10 2006, 10:27 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Database Basics, Sql Development

• Database Basics Part Three - Isolation

  Author Raymond Lewallen In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, these Database Basics series of posts are targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases. Posted Jan 10 2006, 09:01 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Database Basics, Most Popular, Sql Development

• Database Basics Part Two - Normalization

  Author Raymond Lewallen In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, these Database Basics series of posts are targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases. Posted Jan 04 2006, 11:18 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: Database Basics, Most Popular, Sql Development

• How Sql Server 2005 bypasses the 8KB row size limitation

  Here I talked about row size limitations and using varchar versus nvarchar data in Sql Server. Now, lets look at what you can do in Sql Server 2005 that allows you to surpase the 8KB row size limit. Sql Server 2005 still adheres to the 8K page size. But... Posted Dec 30 2005, 09:06 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Sql Development

• Database Basics Quick Note - The difference in Varchar and Nvarchar data types

  I saw the following question posted on a forum and left the answer for the poster. I thought I would share it with you all as I am in the process of the Database Basics posts, and this ties in. “What is the difference between nvarchar and varchar data... Posted Dec 30 2005, 09:04 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Database Basics, Sql Development

• Database Basics Part One - The ACID Model

  Author Raymond Lewallen In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, these Database Basics series of posts are targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases. Posted Dec 28 2005, 04:46 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Database Basics, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices, Sql Development

• Presenting The Rest of Visual Studio 2005 Launch Event

  Monday, December 05, 2005 (PST) - The REST of Visual Studio 2005 Speaker: Raymond Lewallen Location: Lunch: Oklahoma City OSU/OKC Student Center Dinner: Oklahoma City Downtown Library TOO MUCH MATERIAL, TOO LITTLE TIME… For the first time we are actually... Posted Nov 22 2005, 08:16 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with no comments Filed under: .Net Development, Patterns and Practices, Sql Development

• November CTP of Enterprise Library 2.0 released

  We all know that Visual Studio, Sql Server and BizTalk were all released in a big product launch yesterday. But did you know that the new Enterprise Library 2.0 November CTP was also released yesterday? If you have your RTM bits of you dev and server... Posted Nov 08 2005, 08:49 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with no comments Filed under: .Net Development, Patterns and Practices, Sql Development

• Quick T-Sql to parse a delimited string

  I was working on some code to parse some data for a friend, and had to write this little piece of code that some of you might find useful. Right now, you can just take this, pop it into query analyzer and run it. Its simple enough to change this to a... Posted Oct 26 2005, 08:48 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: Sql Development

• Manipulating the registry using T-SQL

  Using unsupported extended stored procedures to manipulate your registry. Posted Sep 12 2005, 11:56 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Sql Development

• A recap of popular and helpful posts for developers

  I haven’t posted in about a week because I’ve been busy. Tomorrow I leave on vacation, so I won’t be posting for at least another week. So I thought I would leave you with links to some of the most popular and most read posts on my blog, incase you missed... Posted Aug 24 2005, 11:08 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Extreme Programming, Generalities, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices, Sql Development, TDD

• Transaction Cost Analysis – Capacity Model for Internet Transactions

  I had this oddly named file in My Documents, and opened it up to see what it was. Turned out to be a whitepaper I had downloaded years ago on Transaction Cost Analysis – Capacity Model for Internet Transactions. It was written by a couple of folks... Posted Aug 19 2005, 10:11 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Generalities, Hardware, Patterns and Practices, Sql Development