Best Database Article of March 2015

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Each month at CodeProject we gather together the best of the articles submitted the previous month and ask our readers to choose the best of the best. Entry is automatic - just submit you articke and we'll do the rest.

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Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Create a CRUD web app using JQuery Mobile & WebSQL

28 Mar 2015Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Demonstrates how to use SQLite database for mobile development

CSS

HTML

Javascript

jQuery

Synchronization between local and Azure SQL DB using SLQ Management Studio "Export Data..."

17 Mar 2015Sergey Kizyan

This article explains how to merge your local SQL DB content to Azure DB from scratch

Amazon Web Services part 2 - Adding a database to your web site

24 Mar 2015Matt Perdeck

Add a database to your web site on AWS with automatic fail over using RDS

CRUD Operations in NancyFx using ASP.NET and FluentNHibernate Using Repository Pattern

13 Mar 2015Gaurav Aroraa

Introduction In these days RAD (Rapid Application Development) is growing at its large. There are numerous framework available to develop Web Applications or Web Projects. We can use either ASP.Net or ASP.Net MVC from Microsoft or any other framework. Although, NancyFx is having its own support for

Using Dynamic SQL to create a Pivot Table

19 Mar 2015JammoD87

Using Dynamic SQL to create a Pivot Table

SQL

WCF

Continuous Delivery with VSO: Configuring the Basics

12 Mar 2015Graham D Smith

Continuous Delivery with VSO: Configuring the Basics

SQL Table Toolkit (STT)

12 Mar 2015TarikHuber

SQL Table Toolkit is a Class Library offering a quite large amount of tools for fast and easy work with SQL Tables

C# - Google Maps in WinForm with WebBrowser and Google Maps API v3

24 Mar 2015SMPS LLC

With this tip, you can show a map in your WinForm application with the Google Maps API v3.

Control a model car track with Azure and Arduino

9 Jun 2015Freek Kootstra

This is a project to control the modelcars on a vintage toy car track using an Arduino and a Windows Azure service.

SQL

C++

cloud

Create a CRUD web app using JQuery Mobile & PHP Ajax Calls

21 Mar 2015Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Demonstrates creating, updating, deleting single file json records in a web server using jQuery Mobile and Php.

A generic Collection to DataTable Mapper

27 Apr 2015Jörgen Andersson

A high performance extension for creating a DataTable from a Generic collection.

Integration .NET Component into your Native MFC Application (1)

9 Mar 2015sunhui

Integrate .NET Component to your Native MFC Application at runtime

JQuery Mobile and Stanford Crypto Library

3 Mar 2015Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Storing and retrieving encrypted passwords on LocalStorage using Standord Crypto Library

Using SQLite Databases in Any Folder in WinRT

9 Mar 2015Peter Moore - Chicago

By writing your own Virtual File System with a little C++, you can escape ApplicationData.LocalFolder and read and write databases in any folder your app has access to.

Experimenting with Date and Time data types in SQL SERVER 2008

11 Mar 2015John C Rayan

An insight into date and time types in SQL SERVER -

Reading and writing Unicode data in .NET

11 Apr 2015Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article is for beginners about writing and reading Unicode data from different data sources; including text files, user input, databases. It also demonstrates how to display that data in .NET applications, including ASP.NET web applications.

SQL Server: Detect Circular Relations In A Relational Database

4 Mar 2015DiponRoy

Table Hierarchy or Generation Finder For Relational Database In SQL Server

IOBOT : Build your own Azure powered Robots

31 Mar 2015Naren Neelamegam

Building robots from the scratch with speech recognition, remote voice control, learning intelligence with Raspberry PI, Intel Galileo and Microsoft Azure.

Coding with Klocwork: A Dev Perspective

6 Mar 2015Chris_Riley

Klocwork is kind of like my code spell check, or professional editor. It just makes me sound good. And if I were part of a larger dev team it would be quite a powerful management tool.

Web app using Web API, SignalR and AngularJS

9 Mar 2015bob.bumsuk.lee

Web app that manages customer complaints and demonstrate how to use Web API, SignalR and AngularJS technologies

Everything About SQL- Get Started

16 Mar 2015Passion4Code

This post covers everything about SQL - getting started

SQL

Complex numbers library in multiple languages

8 Mar 2015Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article contains a basic overview of the complex numbers, and their creation and functions most specifically the operator overloading for arithmetic functions. Programming languages include Java, C++, C# and VB.NET at the moment.

MyFamily.Show: A Simple JQuery Mobile Family Tree

3 Mar 2015Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

MyFamily.Show : A simple Family Tree Mobile App to keep details of your family tree.

Yet another Home Monitor

5 Mar 201565Goat

This contest submission is for a home monitoring solution that reads temperature, humidity and states from various sensors around a home. The data is stored in Azure and can be accessed via mobile devices.

Java and MySQL via JDBC: How to Connect DB, Get Data from Table and Display It in JTable

3 Mar 2015IAndreev93

Very Simply MySQL Viewer with Swing GUI written in NetBeans IDE using GUI Builder

Data Access with .NET Platform

3 Mar 2015Soufiane Rabhi

What you have to know about ADO.NET and Entity Framework

SQL Server Dapper

25 Jul 2016yuvalsol

Helper class to mitigate working with Dapper against SQL Server database

Useful DateTime Functions

5 Mar 2015db_developer

1 alternative

Reminder.Sou...

SQL

SQL-Server

TreeView menu with TabControl using STT (SQL Table Toolkit)

23 Mar 2015TarikHuber

Easy and fast integration of a TreeView menu using STT, with permission management and form opening in a tabcontrol.

Creating a SplitView / Master Details Screen in JQuery Mobile

8 Mar 2015Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Create a SplitView / Master Details screen in JQuery Mobile

Google Maps with Custom Styles and Custom Pin

16 Mar 2015Pankil Bhatt

In this tip, we will see how to use the Google Maps API and Google Maps with custom styles and a custom pin.

SQL cursor without using real cursor

30 Mar 2015Evgeny Bestfator

Sometimes for processing rowsets we need a cursor, but we may not use standard cursor, we can create our pseudo cursor with much more simple syntax...

SQL

CLR Stored Procedure in SQL Server

10 Mar 2015Jignesh G Trivedi

This tip will help you to understand CLR procedure.

Apply Operator in SQL Server Simplified

14 Mar 2015Gaurav_Chaudhary

This tip is a brief introduction to Apply operator in SQL server

SQL

SQL-Server-2014

SQL-Server-2012

Agumented Reality for IoTs

22 Mar 2015Aby Mammen Mathew

IoT devices needs the capability to augment the environment around them, even when sensors utilized by them break down

Table Valued Parameters in SQL 2008

5 Mar 2015DotNetForAll

The tip describes how the Table Valued Parameters(TVP) are used in SQl server and how they can be utilized using C# code.

Windows

SQL-Server-2008R2

Dev

CarNet-India

1 Mar 2015CarNet-India

CarNet is a project which involves creation of an mesh network between vehicles moving in vicinity of each other.

Lookup Control for ASP.NET Web Applications

29 Mar 2015Manoj K Bhoir

Lookup web user control with some basic properties and functionalities

SQL Injections and their Prevention

27 Mar 2015Shivangi_K

SQL injections and their prevention

SQL

Dynamically Creating an RDLC Report Just Using a DataSet

19 Mar 2015Nadir Muhammed

Creating an RDLC report by just binding a Dataset

Find Duplicate Files in FILETABLE

20 Mar 2015Sarathi Balakrishnan

Remove duplicate files with same file content, even with different file name using FILETABLE with simple CTE.

SQL-Server

FileStream

database

Import and Export MySQL databases using C++

23 Mar 2015Satish Jagtap

This article explains how to import database to MySQL server and how to export database from MySQL server.

Run All .sql Files in a Directory for Deployment

5 Mar 2015RiniBoo

Run all .sql files in a directory with results returned showing execution being successful or failure

SQL

deployment

Java and Microsoft Access via Jackcess: How to Connect MDB or ACCDB, Get Data from Table and Display It in JTable

4 Mar 2015IAndreev93

Very Simply MDB/ACCDB Viewer with Swing GUI written in NetBeans IDE using GUI Builder

Java

DBA

Implementing Joins in Hadoop Map-Reduce using MapFiles

16 Mar 2015Suffyan Asad

Implementing joins in Hadoop Map-Reduce applications during Map-phase using MapFiles

Microsoft SQL: Increase Existing Value In Row Or Add New Row If None Exists

20 Mar 2015furytrader

Yes, Virginia, You Can Do This All With One Simple SQL Statement

SQL Change Data Capture (CDC) table not working after adding new columns to the source table and Using CDC with a frequently changing schema

13 Mar 2015Rajesh Manjarekar

When CDC is turned ON against a table and the underlying table schema changes, such as adding/removing a column, changing datatype etc

Mother's Little Helper

27 Mar 2015Member 11459717

An application used to manage applications which are categorized by functionality which also prioritizes tasks necessary to manage a household. The application is back-end managed, controlled and operated through Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

Useful SQL Snippets & Own Functions for SQL Server, SQL Server CE, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL

7 Mar 2015IAndreev93

Standard functions usage, and my own functions... Allowing you simpler process tables... Date and time... Strings...

Leveraging SQL Server - Custom Rule Engine

6 Mar 2015Pareek Ankit

Leveraging SQL-Server - Custom rule engine

SQL-Server

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.

Manoj K Bhoir

Software Developer

India

It always seems good to hear about me, but the thing I do is I code. I'm Interested in Designing Windows Based Application, Web Applications and building Mobile Applications. Currently restricting it to Android 4.0 applications, building Internet Based Applications using ASP.NET and contributing to bring the student community to a position which will help technology to reach the greatest heights ever. A very Big fan of Microsoft & Android..!!

65Goat

Architect Terminal Solutions

United States

I have recently changed direction in my career and am focusing, once again, on software development. I have over 30 years experience in the software industry. 19 of those years at Microsoft Corporation in many different technical roles. I have a B.S. in computer science from Valparaiso University and deep experience with Object Orientated design and development.

My recent passion revolves around IofT and how this technology can fundamentally change how business understand and react to their competitive landscape.

Aby Mammen Mathew

Architect MLI Dynamics

United States

I am interested in distributed computing and architectures. Pretty much like elegant and simple solutions to complex problems.

If you have questions, please feel to reach me at abymmathew@hotmail.com

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.

Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Software Developer SITHASO HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD

South Africa

I'm a Bachelor of Commerce graduate, fell inlove with ICT years back with VB5. Used Pick & System Builder to create a windows app. Very curious, developed my first web database app called Project.Show using ExtJS. Published on Google Play Store, learned JQuery Mobile, a project manager at best. My first intranet app eFas with MySQL.

Fear closes people to a lot of things and we hold ourselves back being held by it. Thus the sooner you believe you can't do something, the sooner everything will work towards that belief. Believe in yourself at all times because you can do anything you set your mind to it!

I have a very beautiful woman and four kids, the best joys in the world. East London, South Africa is currently home.

Awards:

Best Mobile Article of February 2015 (First Prize)
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/880508/Create-a-CRUD-web-app-using-JQuery-Mobile-and-Loca

Best Mobile Article of May 2015 (Second Prize)
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/991974/Creating-JQuery-Mobile-CRUD-Apps-using-JQM-Show-Ge

Apps
Bible.Show (Android Store App)
https://www.facebook.com/bibleshow
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.b4a.BibleShow

JQM.Show (Android Store App)
https://www.facebook.com/jqmshow
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.b4a.JQMShow

CodeProject.Show (An offline CodeProject Article writer)
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/993453/CodeProject-Show-A-CodeProject-offline-article-wri

bob.bumsuk.lee

Software Developer

New Zealand

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

CarNet-India

Student

India

I am an undergraduate student pursuing BE computer science in Bangalore Institute of Technology.
I am passionate about new technologies and active to learn new things.
Me and my team members(team of 4) are currently working on IOT based project CarNet for Azure IOT contest.
Project Name: CarNet-India
Project URL: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/881733/CarNet-India
Team Members:
1) Rajeev Hegde
2) Abhay Sastry
3) Sanjeev Hegde
4) Nishanth Nelogal

Chris_Riley

United States

ABOUT

Chris Riley is a technologist who has spent 12 years helping organizations transition from traditional development practices to a modern set of culture, processes and tooling. In addition to being a Gigaom Research analyst, he is an O’Reilly author, regular speaker, and subject matter expert in the areas of DevOps Strategy and culture and Enterprise Content Management. Chris believes the biggest challenges faced in the tech market is not tools, but rather people and planning.

Throughout Chris’s career he has crossed the roles of marketing, product management, and engineering to gain a unique perspective of how the deeply technical is used to solve real-world problems. By working with both early adopters and late, he has watched technologies mature from rough solutions to essential and transparent. In addition to spending his time understanding the market he helps ISVs selling B2D and practitioner of DevOps Strategy. He is interested in machine-learning, and the intersection of BigData and Information Management.

EXPERTISE

application lifecycle management (alm) devops enterprise content management (ecm) information architecture (ia) information governance

db_developer

Database Developer Freelancer

Ukraine

MS SQL Server Database Developer with 7+ years experience

Technologies/languages: Business Intelligence, SQL, MDX, VBA, SQL Server, Analysis Services (SSAS), Reporting services (SSRS), Integration Services (SSIS), DataWarehouse.
Also: economic background.

Feel free to contact me for rates and details.

DotNetForAll

Software Developer (Senior)

India

I have 8 years of experience of mostly developing the .NET windows as well as web applications. Passionate about learning and sharing.

Visit my personal blog to know more about the .NET technology and increase your knowledge about C# and .NET. You can always follow me on twitter @dotnetforall.

Evgeny Bestfator

Software Developer (Senior) Saber Interactive

Russian Federation

My specializations:

C# (especially multithreading)
WPF (MVVM, styling)
WCF (message inspectors, configuration)
MSSQL (administartion, creation, procedures, recursive queries, bulk processing)

Freek Kootstra

Architect Freek Kootstra ICT

Netherlands

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

furytrader

Unknown

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

Gaurav Aroraa

Chief Technology Officer

India

Learning never ends.

Gaurav_Chaudhary

Web Developer

India

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

Graham D Smith

United Kingdom

Dr Graham Smith is a former research scientist who got bitten by the programming and database bug so badly that in 2000 he changed careers to become a full-time software developer. Life moves on and Graham currently manages a team of software engineers and specialises in continuous delivery and application lifecycle management with the Team Foundation Server ecosystem.

IAndreev93

Russian Federation

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

JammoD87

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

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

Jignesh G Trivedi

Technical Lead

India

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

John C Rayan

Engineer

United Kingdom

Areas of Expertise:

.NET, MVC, SQL Server, XML , SOA and WEB solutions.

* Microsoft certified in C# Programming.
* Microsoft certified Techology Specialist (ASP.NET)
* IBM certified in XML Technology
* Sun certified Java Programmer
* Sun certified Web Solution Developer

Jörgen Andersson

Database Developer

Sweden

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

Matt Perdeck

Architect

Australia

Twitter: @MattPerdeck
LinkedIn: au.linkedin.com/in/mattperdeck
Current project: JSNLog JavaScript Logging Package

Matt has over 9 years .NET and SQL Server development experience. Before getting into .Net, he worked on a number of systems, ranging from the largest ATM network in The Netherlands to embedded software in advanced Wide Area Networks and the largest ticketing web site in Australia. He has lived and worked in Australia, The Netherlands, Slovakia and Thailand.

He is the author of the book ASP.NET Performance Secrets (www.amazon.com/ASP-NET-Site-Performance-Secrets-Perdeck/dp/1849690685) in which he shows in clear and practical terms how to quickly find the biggest bottlenecks holding back the performance of your web site, and how to then remove those bottlenecks. The book deals with all environments affecting a web site - the web server, the database server and the browser.

Matt currently lives in Sydney, Australia. He recently worked at Readify and the global professional services company PwC. He now works at SP Health, a global provider of weight loss web sites such at CSIRO's TotalWellBeingDiet.com and BiggestLoserClub.com.

Member 11459717

Student student

United States

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

Nadir Muhammed

Software Developer (Senior)

India

Link Me Now

Naren Neelamegam

Software Developer

India

Naren started coding during 1999 with FORTRAN, then COBOL, PASCAL, C, C++, VC++ ..... C#, Java, ASP so on, till today. He claims himself as techie who loves coding, but he is not even sure which technology or platform he loves, most of the time Windows, some time WinCE, some time Linux, nowadays Android and embedded platforms. He can do some query stuffs with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL. He strongly believes that C/C++ is a must for all programmers, "if you know C/C++, you can do programming on any language". He is an electronic gadget guy who likes to buy small gadgets all the time, at least he will do window shopping on a gadget shop. His interest always have been with Automation in any form, call it a little automated program sitting in his Laptop or a home automation program runs on his mobile. Apart from coding, he likes to do...???

Pankil Bhatt

Software Developer

India

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

Pareek Ankit

Architect

India

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

Passion4Code

Software Developer (Senior)

India

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

Peter Moore - Chicago

President Legistek Corporation

United States

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

Rajesh Manjarekar

Technical Lead

United States

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

RiniBoo

CEO Kitty Enterprise LLP

Canada

I have been working for some corrupted government agencies in Canada who are known for scandal and milking tax payers' money. I always feel like I am in the wrong industry and want to try something more interesting because life is short. I am so tired of technologies after being in I.T. for so many years, I am a bit sick of everyday waking up and work for money, especially dealing with stupid annoying people, company politics and policies. But every time they give me a paycheck, I shut up temporary. Then the cycle begins again.....

Sarathi Balakrishnan

United States

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

Satish Jagtap

Software Developer (Senior) Intellirich DevSoft Pvt. Ltd.

India

Software developer
India

Sergey Kizyan

Architect

Ukraine

Working on different projects and technologies from web to low level core programming, from scripting languages to C++. With all this stuff my personal opinion is that C#,.NET and Microsoft environment is the best thing programmer may have. Basing on it I prefer to publish only about my favorite technologies that are .NET and Azure now.

P.S. Looking for partnership and cooperation in outsourcing.

Shivangi_K

Software Developer

India

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

SMPS LLC

SMPS

Morocco

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

Soufiane Rabhi

Technical Lead

France

Sofiene Rabhi is Microsoft certified professional in C# ,HTML 5 and JavaScript, Asp.net and Microsoft Silverlight, consultant, trainer specializing in application development with Microsoft technologies, including c#, Vb.net, and Microsoft Azure.

Suffyan Asad

Software Developer

Pakistan

Software Engineer and Data Scientist

sunhui

Web Developer

China

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

TarikHuber

Engineer ICS Logistik & Transport GmbH

Germany

Born in Bosnia and Herzegowina where I studied Traffic and Communication in the University of Sarajevo. After the Bachelor, found a Job in a Logistic Company in Germany where I live and work now as an Software developer for our Company needs.

With programming I started as an hoby at work. For now I have almost 2 years programing experience. First with excel then VBA in Excel. That growed up to VBA with Access and a first Access DB. Then an SQL Server camed in and VBA with Access could not handle it. The next move was of cource VB.Net but with Visual Studio I came in contact with C#.

yuvalsol

Web Developer

Israel

https://github.com/yuvalsol

First Prize	Jörgen Andersson - A generic Collection to DataTable Mapper
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Soufiane Rabhi - Data Access with .NET Platform
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

Contest Entries and Requirements

The contest period covers the the first day of the month 12AM US Eastern Standard Time and ends the final day of the month at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify.
Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
With the exception of the Everything Else category, the article must be tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category (for example, to enter the C# Competition you would need to tag your article with a C# tag).
Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
Articles may only be considered for a single category. If an article is eligible for multiple categories (for example, it pertains to both the C# and Web Dev categories), CodeProject editors and judges will decide which category the article shall be entered in.
No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
If an author writes has two separate articles, each article may be considered in their respective categories provided none of the aforementioned rules are broken. For example, if an author wrote two separate articles, one related to C# and one related to VB.NET, the author and articles could be nominated in the C# and VB.NET competitions, respectively.
In the event an author wins multiple competitions, and repeat, identical prizes, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
In the event an article has multiple authors and/or contributors, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
In the event of a tie, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
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Any breach of the rules and the prize will be awarded to the runner up.
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