Best Database Article of September 2014

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Word Automation using C#: Create a Word Table Programatically

13 Sep 2014koolprasad2003

This tip gives you an idea about how to create Word table using C# (Word automation)

COM

VS2010

MS-Word

Visual-Studio

automation

interop

Real-time Oracle Database Monitoring Dashboard in ASP.NET

29 Sep 2014Omar Al Zabir

Oracle Performance Dashboard (OPD) is a small ASP.NET website that shows you performance & problems of one or more Oracle instances in near real-time. It uses the Dynamic Performance Views (DPV) and runs some popular DBA scripts in order to get meaningful, easy to understand information out of the s

OLAP CUBE Optimization Technique and a Small Trade off

25 Sep 2014SERokon

OLAP cube performance optimization technique

SQL-Server

OLAP

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data: Part 2 - The Setup

22 Sep 2014Bob McGowan

Utilizing SQL Server FILESTREAM capabilities from .NET

Windows Azure Storage Emulator failed to install

23 Sep 2014AssemblySoft

Upgrading Windows Azure Storage Emulator fails with error message 'Windows Azure Storage Emulator failed to install'

Export Primary, Unique, Foreign Key and Default Constraints in SQL Server

26 Sep 2014Anil kumar Bhardwaj

Export all the primary, Unique, Foreign key and default constraints from existing database

Connect Visio 2007 to any SQL Server Version after SQL Server 2005

16 Sep 2014Anusheel Kamle

How to connect Visio 2007 to SQL Server 2008 R2 for reverse engineering

SQL-Server-2008R2

Request for the Permission of Type System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission

23 Sep 2014Bimaln

Solved the Permission issue when I hosted my ASP.NET application on IIS7

A Transact Sql version of C strtok() using a table valued function

31 Aug 2014Faustino Dina

Publishes a Transact-SQL function for parsing a string containing a delimited list, similar to the ANSI C languaje strtok() function.

SQL

Auditing Failed Logins in SQL Server: Looking Beyond Post-event Analysis

23 Sep 2014SatyLepide

By analyzing log-in attempts on SQL server, admins can build the complete picture out of the sequence of events that led to compliance failure or unauthorized access.

It’s Simple!! Or Pseudo Simple Anyway

10 Sep 2014derekman9707

Pseudo-simple recovery model

SQL

DBA

To cause an error when updating a row with non-existing lookup reference

10 Sep 2014Wendelius

The tip shows how to intentionally cause an error in a situation where a non-existing reference would be updated.

SQL

SQL-Server

What are the Different Types of Database Backups?

14 Sep 2014derekman9707

Different types of database backups

First and Last Occurrence of Day of Week Within a Month using SQL

13 Sep 2014Wendelius

This tip describes how to fetch the first or the last occurrence of given day of week within a month by using a single SQL statement.

SQL

SQL-Server

SSIS - Import Text File

16 Sep 2014Math08avan

SQL Server Integration Services - How to read a text file

All About SSIS Variables Part 3 Variable Assignment

26 Sep 2014derekman9707

This post discusses about variable value assignment in SSIS.

SQL

SSIS

Custom Control for Effective Paging and Page Navigation for GridView with Full Source

26 Sep 2014Sreedhar Puligundla

Creating custom control for gridview paging and page navigation

EVERLEAP

22 Sep 2014Bruno Terkaly

Recently, the team at DiscountASP.NET launched a new cloud hosting solution called EVERLEAP. Because EVERLEAP makes use of some Microsoft Azure technology I thought I’d take a look at it.

Find First Not Null Value From Different Columns: TIP# 47

14 Sep 2014Rajat-Indiandotnet

Find first not null value from different columns

SQL

All-Topics

First_value & Last_Value According to Group Set is that Easy? Tip# 44

13 Sep 2014Rajat-Indiandotnet

First_value & Last_Value according to group set is that easy? Tip# 44

SQL

All-Topics

Pass OUTPUT Parameter from Stored Procedure to SSIS Precendence Constraints

20 Sep 2014Baliram Suryawanshi

Pass OUTPUT parameter from stored procedure to SSIS Precendence Constraints

Combining MDX with T-SQL in One Result Set for SSRS (Hybrid Query)

27 Sep 2014Ahmad A.A. Ahmad

Combining MDX with T-SQL in One Result Set for SSRS (Hybrid Query)

Data Parsing SQL to JSON

5 Sep 2014Abhishek Jaiswall

Data parsing SQL to JSON

SQL

XML

Big n Bulky "How To" Document for ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, HTML 5 and JQuery

28 Sep 2014Bhushan Mulmule

This is terribly unorganized document with mix of MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, HTML 5 and JQuery how tos...

What is the Difference between ROW_NUMBER(), RANK() and DENSE_RANK()?

26 Sep 2014Arora_Ankit

This tip will explain the difference between these three functions.

SQL

paging

Create Primary Key using Entity Framework Code First

4 Sep 2014Dukhabandhu Sahoo

Explore the Entity Framework Code First convention and configuration for creating primary key

Convert RTF to Plain Text (Revised Again)

9 Apr 2016NightWizzard

Handling for hex expressions and the trailing '}'

Template to Handle Error in SQL Server

29 Sep 2014Jitendra Ku. Sahoo

Below is one template to handle error in SQL server.

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data - Part 1

21 Sep 2014Bob McGowan

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data - Part 1

SQL Queries to Manage Hierarchical or Parent-child Relational Rows in SQL Server

15 Sep 2014DiponRoy

Some queries to find generation of each row, all possible children, all possible parents, managing recursion

Highcharts in asp.net using jquery ajax

29 Sep 2014Amol Jadhao

Looking for a way to draw charts like line,column,bar,pie,area with C#? This is the perfect tutorial for you and its easy to implement.This article will help you to understand how to bind a Pie Chart by calling a web service from jQuery AJAX in ASP.NET

SQL server error details.

22 Sep 2014Jitendra Ku. Sahoo

Overview of SQL server error anatomy.

SQL

SQL-Server-2012

SQL-Server-2008R2

Hiring a Great Programmer

3 Sep 2014Chris A. Johnson

How to hire a Great Programmer

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data: Part 3 - Creating Tables

24 Sep 2014Bob McGowan

Utilizing SQL Server FILESTREAM capabilities from .NET

Using some resources, timers and COM ports in wxWidgets

4 Sep 2014Andres Cassagnes

wxWidgets resources examples and COM port communication.

Universal System.Data.Sqlite binary for .NET and Mono

21 Sep 2014Alexei Shcherbakov

How to make almost universal NuGet 'System.Data.Sqlite' package for .NET and Mono

Using PIVOT and JOIN Together in SQL Server

23 Sep 2014DiponRoy

Here we will see how to use PIVOT and JOIN together in SQL query

SQL

SecurePHPWebAppCoding - SQL Injection - What is it and How to Stop It?

14 Sep 2014Abani Kumar Meher

This article describes how we write code while developing web application which results in SQL injection vulnerability and how we should write code to prevent it.

Article 8 - Handling Input and Storage on Android

9 Sep 2014Ahmed Alaa El-Din

This articles provides a brief description of different methods that Android platform can provide for a developer to save different data types with different storage methods like Shared Preferences, Internal Storage, External Storage, SQLite DB, and Web Services

OData

15 Sep 2014me.ajaykumar

OData

Yet Another ORM ADO.NET Wrapper

12 Sep 2018GerVenson

ADO.NET ORM

MVC Load Stocks Data on Runtime in a Grid View

19 Sep 2014Wajahat Aftab

How to load data from live market stock feed in a grid view

Android Data Storage

14 Sep 2014Varavut

Lean about how to manage the data

Preventing SQL Injection Attack ASP.NET - Part I

1 Sep 2014Mayur V Lohite

SQL Injection is a very common attack in web applications. This article explains how SQL Injection occurs and how to prevent it.

Why Use ASP.NET for Web Development

13 Sep 2014Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

A slight comparison of ASP.NET upon other (web) programming languages in the market and a discussion of me and some other (web) programming language developers.

SQL Server: Query to Get the Date of First Monday of September

12 Sep 2014Mohamad Cheaito

SQL Server: Query to get the date of first Monday of September

Enterprise Library 5.0 Logging. Add Support to Log Properies to the Database using a Custom Trace Listener

9 Sep 2014aroen kandaswamy

Custom database trace listener that supports logging of properties for enterprise library 5.0

SQL

.NET

VS2013

How to setup database versioning tool RoundhousE

2 Sep 2014Rohan Kishor Garud

RoundhousE (RH) is a database migrations engine that uses plain old SQL Scripts to transition a database from one version to another.

Column Store Indexes in SQL Server 2012

10 Sep 2014Vijendra(VJ)

This article explains the internals of column store index and the pros and cons of it.

Import Fixed Length File Data into Database Table with SSIS

23 Sep 2014Baliram Suryawanshi

This article helps with step by step detailed information to import fixed length file data into SQL server’s database table.

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

DiponRoy

Bangladesh

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Abani Kumar Meher

Team Leader

India

I am a Zend PHP 5.3 Certified Engineer and OCA MySQL 5.5. I have more than 3 years experience of web application development using PHP and PHP frameworks.

I love to learn about web application security, finding security issues/bugs/flaws in websites . So... I read and read a lot... read books... read over internet... watch videos and learn. I try to implement whatever I read. I search for security issues in web sites, report the website owner. But I have not found any security issue in high profile sites yet. It does not mean that there is not any issue in those sites. I will surely find one day. Smile | :)

I believe you need to know two points if you want to be a successful.
1 - never tell all your secret.
2 -

Abhishek Jaiswall

Software Developer

India

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Software Developer

Pakistan

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan is a computer programmer from Rabwah, Pakistan, currently living in The Netherlands, likes .NET Core and Node.js for regular everyday development. Afzaal Ahmad works at Adyen as a Developer Advocate.

He is an expert with Cloud, Mobile, and API development. Afzaal has experience with the Azure platform and likes to build cross-platform libraries/software with .NET Core. Afzaal is an Alibaba Cloud MVP, twice he has been awarded Microsoft MVP status for his community leadership in software development, four times CodeProject MVP status for technical writing and mentoring, and 4 times C# Corner MVP status in the same field.

Ahmad A.A. Ahmad

Database Developer

Canada

My name is Ahmad Ahmad, I’m a SQL Server developer and a Microsoft Certified Professional, I have 5+ years hands-on experience in SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services and SQL Database Development.

Until recently I built my own blog SQLDeft.com and published articles on SSIS, SSRS, T-SQL and DW, it's still growing, since I have had some free time I decided to dedicate my time for writing and sharing knowledge with others.

I would welcome any connect invitation on LinkedIn.

Ahmed Alaa El-Din

Software Developer eSpace Software Company

Egypt

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Alexei Shcherbakov

Software Developer

Russian Federation

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Amol Jadhao

Software Developer At Lycos Internet Ltd

India

Amol Jadhao is a ASP.Net Developer
He holds Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering.
His core skills are ASP.NET,C#.NET,ADO.NET,SQL SERVER,WEB SERVICES,JAVA SCRIPT,JQUERY,AJAX,HTML,CSS.

Andres Cassagnes

Engineer

Argentina

As an Electronic Engineer I've worked with many languages and for some diferents plattforms including desktop and embedded systems.
My natural envirovment is C/C++, but I've worked with Java, C# and hardware oriented languages (VHDL, Verilog).
I really like programing and always I'm looking for some ideas to development.
I add to the opensource philosophy do I try to share my knowledge with other people.

Now I am developing embedded systems for nuclear industries in the Argentina most important technology Company.

Anil kumar Bhardwaj

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Anusheel Kamle

Software Developer (Senior)

India

I have around 6 Yrs of experience in developing web based application using the following Skills:-
1. Asp.Net 2.0 to 4.5
2. C#
3. Javascript and JQuery
4. Kendo UI
5. Webservices/WCF
6. SSIS
7. SQL Server 2000 - 2008
8. PL/SQL, T-SQl
9. Jitterbit

aroen kandaswamy

Software Developer Egemin

Belgium

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Arora_Ankit

Software Developer (Senior) Mindfire Solutions

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

AssemblySoft

Architect AssemblySoft

United Kingdom

Carl Randall is the founder of AssemblySoft.com where he offers freelancing services. He has specialized in Information Technology solutions for over 20 years. Specializing in full life-cycle development projects for both enterprise-wide systems, desktop applications and Internet based solutions. Carl is a Microsoft Cloud expert.

Carl has been involved in .Net since it's inception and is currently a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (Enterprise).

You can read a little more from Carl from his personal blog: https://www.carlrandall.net/ which covers Azure, Blazor and .Net topics.

When not coding and designing, Carl enjoys playing table tennis, tennis, sailing and spending time by the beach - when the british weather permits Wink | ;)

Baliram Suryawanshi

Software Developer (Senior)

India

Baliram has done B. Tech. in Information Technology from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere- Raigad, MS-India . He is an interested, committed, creative Software professional having 9 years of experience Microsoft Technologies. He is working on Database conversion projects from last 4 years and prior to it worked on web / windows based solutions.

Bhushan Mulmule

India

13+ Years of Experience. Seen death and rise of various technologies. Started with VB - 6.0 back in 2004, then updated to .NET somewhere in 2008. used Win Forms, ASP.NET Web Forms. Switched to ASP.NET MVC in 2013 for very short time. Right now using ASP Core since 2015 when it was in RC 1.

Bimaln

Software Developer Mindfire Solutions

India

Software engineer in Mindfire Solutions.

Bob McGowan

CEO RAMSoft Solutions, Inc

United States

Bob McGowan is the founder and CEO of RAMSoft Solutions and has led the company since its inception in 1993. He has over 30 years of experience managing projects and developing applications software for microcomputers. He has managed multi-million dollar software development projects for many Fortune 100 companies, including Chase Manhattan Bank, Prudential Insurance, and True North Media Services and has acted as a senior technical advisor for dozens of other projects.

Bob has been developing software for microcomputers since 1980, and has developed applications for many companies using a wide variety of development tools, languages, architectures, and operating systems. In 2004 he co-founded an information technology services company specializing in the Yellow Pages Advertising industry. As Chief Technology Officer he architected and implemented a service allowing agencies to view electronic "tear pages" via web services or interactively via a web site. The process included an optical character recognition (OCR) workflow automation process in for scanning, OCR, and review of Yellow Pages telephone directories. After 12 months of operation the database contained over 1.6 million scanned pages and accompanying extracted text in a searchable format.

He continues to be passionate about software development and technology in general. You can follow his thoughts on software development at http://blog.ramsoftsolutions.com

Bruno Terkaly

Canada

Starting with Turbo C and 8086 Assembler in the late 80s, Bruno has kept busy teaching and writing code in a multitude of platforms, languages, frameworks, SDKs, libraries, and APIs.

Bruno's depth of knowledge comes from years of experience in the field, where he can bring real-world knowledge and combine it with forward thinking that is required for his current role as a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft. Prior to evangelism, Bruno was a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, helping customers in remote locations on a moment's notice to help with extreme troubleshooting scenarios, including problem isolation and correction, live and post-mortem debugging, on-the-fly application design and code reviews, performance tuning (IIS, SQL Server, .NET), application stability, porting / migration assistance, configuration management, pre-rollout testing and general development consulting.

As an evangelist, Bruno spends time writing code and giving live presentations on building cloud based applications, specifically using the Windows Azure Platform. He also takes a strong interest in Mobile Computing and is convinced that both mobile and cloud platforms, separately and together, are poised for huge growth over the next 10 years.

Bruno is very optimistic about the potential for new interactions with software using Kinect. The software industry has been languishing in aging approaches to human interactions and software. Kinect opens up an brave new world of possibilities to next generation software engineering.

Chris A. Johnson

CEO Kolaberate Software inc.

Canada

Chris is a .NET Architect with over 17 years of experience working with various Microsoft technologies including most recently ASP.NET, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS and Sharepoint. Chris is now C.E.O. of Kolaberate Software, based in Vancouver, B.C.

derekman9707

Database Developer

United States

David retired as a Sergeant with the Cape Coral Police Department after 22 years of service. His final 10 years of duty were as a database administrator and developer in the Administrative Services Division. He began his career with the police department in 1990 in the patrol division and worked various assignments until being promoted to Sergeant in 1998. Based on his education and experience David was assigned to Administrative Services in 2002 and was responsible for database administration, software integration, and development for public safety. David’s primary focus and expertise is with SQL Server, reporting services, integration services, and analysis services, and he was recognized for his work by SQL Server Magazine as “Innovator of the Year” runner up in 2007. David is an MCITP for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 in both database administration and business intelligence and is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He regularly posts on the MSDN SQL Server forums where he also serves as a moderator, and is a contributor at SQLCLR.net. In addition to his knowledge of SQL Server David works as a software developer using VB.net and C# and has worked extensively in SharePoint development.

Dukhabandhu Sahoo

Software Developer (Senior)

India

I have developed web applications using ASP.NET Web Forms, MVC, Web API, Entity Framework, SQL Server, LINQ, C#, jQuery, BootStrap UI and few other related libraries and tools.

Apart from programming, I love to watch cricket matches.

Faustino Dina

Software Developer

Mexico

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

GerVenson

Software Developer Freelancer

Germany

A nice guy.
And WPF Developer.
And asp.net.

like everything I can get my hand on in .net.
But never java.

Jitendra Ku. Sahoo

Software Developer

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

koolprasad2003

Technical Lead

India

Hi there, I am Prasad. Author, Blogger, contributor and passionate about Microsoft .NET technologies. I like to write an articles/blogs on different .NET aspects and like to help Developers, to resolve their issues and boost them on Microsoft Technologies.

Certifications: Microsoft Certified professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified technology specialist (MCTS), Agile-Scrum Master.

Awards: Microsoft Re-connect MVP (GSC Member), Most valuable member at dotnetspider, Most popular curator, Most active curator, featured curator at Microsoft Curah, Editor at dotnetspider.

Microsoft MVP 2014 [ASP.NET/IIS]
Click here for more .NET Tips
-After all Knowledge is an endless entity

Math08avan

Software Developer (Senior) iPower Lanka

Sri Lanka

I am Mathavan. I have been programming since 2008. My programming experience includes C/C++, C#, ASP.NET.

Mayur V Lohite

Web Developer

India

My name is Mayur Lohite. I am Programmer and Web Developer also I am Interested in Web Application Security and penetration. From a young age I’ve been fascinated with building web application and breaking it. So I have choose the Information technology as my career and completed the Degree in Information technology.

I’m a interested in operating and design of large-scale web applications/infrastructure and I’m interested in web application security also I am interested in some networking setting up servers, domains experimenting with clouds(well I am not professional at it)

I am a big fan of Anime series (Naruto) and also love to playing games. In the mean time I love to watching movies specially action movies.

Now I’m a white hat penetration tester. bug hunter and all out security freak by profession and passion. I’ve listed many websites Hall of fame e.g. Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Adobe

me.ajaykumar

Chief Technology Officer Infocouture Solutions Pvt Ltd

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Mohamad Cheaito

Canada

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

NightWizzard

Software Developer (Senior)

Germany

30+ years experience as developer with VB.NET, VB, VBA, VBScript, C#, WPF, WinForms, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Delphi, ADO, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, HTML, CSS, XAML, XML, T-SQL, MySQL, MariaDb, MS-ACCESS, dBase, OLE/COM, ActiveX, SEPA/DTAUS, ZUGFeRD, DATEV Format and DATEVconnect, DSGVO, TNT Web-API, MS-Office Addins, etc., including:
- 10+ years experience as developer and freelancer
- 10+ years experience as team leader
- 13+ years experience with CRM solutions

Omar Al Zabir

Architect BT, UK (ex British Telecom)

United Kingdom

I am: Head of Engineering Consumer CRM & Billing, BT (ex British Telecom).
I got: 11 Microsoft MVP Awards, 4 CodeProject MVP awards.
I like: Performance and Scalability Challenges.
My Book: Building a Web 2.0 portal using ASP.NET 3.5. Also on Amazon
My Blog: http://omaralzabir.com
My Specialization: Web 2.0, SaaS, Performance and Scalability of Web Apps.
My Email: OmarALZabir at gmail dot com

Follow Me: twitter.com/omaralzabir

My Projects:
Droptiles: Open Source Web 2.0 AJAX Portal
SQL Server real-time monitor
Oracle real-time monitor
Codeuml - UML diagrams as fast as you can type
Fastest Streaming AJAX Proxy
CPU Alerter - Save power, work faster

My Articles:
Top 10 caching mistakes
99.99% Available Production Architecture
10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets
UFrame: UpdatePanel and IFRAME combined
Fast ASP.NET web page loading
Fast Streaming AJAX Proxy
Using COM safely inside "using" block without requiring interop assembly
Implementing Word Like Automation Model
Distributed Command Pattern

Rajat-Indiandotnet

Team Leader

India

I am Rajat Jaiswal from India. I am working as a Technology specialist in one of the reputed company in India with 12+ years of experience. I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP & Alibaba Cloud MVP.
I have always had an affinity to learn something new in technology. Database, Web development, Cloud computing are the areas of my interests always.
I have been a regular contributor to technologies with more than 300+ tips. Learning & Sharing is one of my aims always. Writing blogs, delivering sessions, helping on forums is my hobby.

Rohan Kishor Garud

Software Developer (Junior)

India

I am a junior developer worked at a very innovative I.T. company. I am keen to learn new issues that are coming in our daily professional life. Now I have worked on JQuery framework corMVC which is outstanding. Also worked on .NET 4,MVC 3,Roundhouse tool,NInject. Learned a lot from these small experiences.

SatyLepide

Tester / Quality Assurance Lepide Software

India

Software Testing Manager at Lepide Software Pvt. Ltd.

SERokon

Software Developer (Senior) The Jaxara IT Ltd.

Bangladesh

Working as Lead Software Engineer and developing web application
Using MVC, ASP.net (C#), MS SQL server for last 9+ years.

Sreedhar Puligundla

Software Developer

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Varavut

Software Developer vable

Thailand

Windows Platform, Android, Server-Side and Web Application Developer. I am a Programming Lover. I love to make an application and design it structures.

Vijendra(VJ)

Software Developer BOA

India

I work in a software company and I have a never ending appetite for learning and teaching new things. I love kids.

Wajahat Aftab

Web Developer Omex Systems

Pakistan

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Wendelius

Architect

Europe

Biography provided

First Prize	Dukhabandhu Sahoo - Create Primary Key using Entity Framework Code First
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject

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