Developer Connections, Fall 2008

News from the sessions and show floor at SQL Server Magazine Connections, Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, and Visual Studio Connections, November 10-13, 2008


Dev Connections 2008: DotNetNuke


The DevConnections conference has a little-ballyhooed track called DotNetNuke. I sat down with Joe Brinkman, the VP of Core Technology and co-founder of DotNetNuke to find out more about it. Folks at Penton Media, the parent company of SQL Server and Windows IT Pro magazines and windevpro.com are especially interested in DotNetNuke because they're the developing the next generation website for our publications. I wanted to know more about how DotNetNuke blends its open source platform with the Microsoft .NET stack and how developers can take advantage of hooks in the platform to customize their websites. Check out what... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

 

Puzzled by T-SQL

Time Only


In the past I demonstrated techniques to extract only the date or only the time from a DATETIME value that contains both date and time. I covered those in DATETIME Calculations, Part 1. I showed a few techniques to extract only the time (or more accurately, set the date to the base date January 1st, 1900). I showed a technique based on string manipulation where you first convert the event date... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

In a Nutshell

Where'd that Feature Go?


Reading up on my notes today, I found an interesting post by Cristian Lefter that I thought I'd share. Cristian originally found this on a CTP version of SQL2008, but it should still apply. In Cristian's words: --- I was playing with the new options to track deprecated features in SQL Server 2008. I launched a Profiler and I was about to run SELECT DATABASEPROPERTY('master','IsAutoShrink'); Before I had the time to press Run, an event from Profiler itself was displayed: "TEXT, and IMAGE data types will be removed in a future version of SQL Server. Avoid using them in new development work, and plan to modify applications that... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

Industry Bytes

Mobile Business Intelligence Product Lets You Instantly Access Reports


Accio Intellectum has announced the release of ReportEverywhere, a new mobile business intelligence (BI) solution. ReportEverywhere lets users send existing reports to mobile devices using the subscriptions function in SQL Server Reporting Services’ (SSRS’) Report Manager. There’s no need to rewrite reports before sending them to a user via instant message. If you send a report as an instant message, and the person you’re sending it to isn’t available, ReportEverywhere will automatically store the report in an internal database until the... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

 
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