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Learning how to program - again!
The problem with not programming all the time is keeping up with the constant developments in programming. I was impressed with the very readable and informative "Foundations of programming" series of blog posts by Karl Seguin and certainly recommend them.The foundation series so far includes:-Part 1 - Introduction Part 2 - Domain domain domainPart 3 - PersistencePart 4 - Dependency injectionPart 5 - Unit testingPart 6 - NHibernatePart 7 (sorta) - ActiveRecordPart 7 - Back to basics: MemoryPart 7 - AddendumPart 8 - Back to basics: ExceptionsPart 9 - Proxy this and Proxy thatUPDATE: Karl has posted a comment to say that there is now a Foundation of Programming Ebook, a free and very professionally produced ebook of the series. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Jun 22 2008, 04:49 PM
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SQL Comparison SDK - Updating a customer database schema example
Overview
A common use of the Red Gate SQL Comparison SDK is to package up the latest version of a database schema and send it to customers as an executable. NOTE: SQL Comparison SDK is to be the new name for SQL Toolkit
Pre-requisites
Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008
Red Gate SQL Comparison SDKYou can download a 14 day free trial of SQL Comparison SDK if you haven't already got it.
WidgetProduction and WidgetStaging SQL creation scriptThis database creation script is used by some of the SQL Compare API toolkit samples.
SqlDbDeploy.zipThe database schema deployment example used in this article.
Building the example
When you load the solution in Visual Studio you will need to update the references to the toolkit assemblies. You can find the .dll files in the folder where you installed SQL Compare. The default location is Program Files\Red Gate\SQL Compare 6
If you want to change the splash image then you can replace the splash.jpg file in resources.
The embedded snapshot.snp file is used by default. A snapshot of the WidgetStaging database is included in the resources folder. You can delete it or replace it with your own snapshot but you need to remember to set the build action to Embedded Resource.
Using the example
The compiled example takes a number of command line parameters which are:-
/S:<servername> - This is the server on which the database resides to synchronize./D:<database> - The database name to update./B:<filename> - If you want to make a backup of the original schema before an update specify a filename here./V:true - Specify this if you want verbose information./UE:<snapshotname> - Name of embedded snapshot to use. If /UB not specified then default is snapshot.snp /UB:<snapshotfilename> - Name of snapshot file to use.
At the moment the example includes a snapshot for the WidgetProduction database so if you run the following parameters:- SqlDbDeploy.exe /S:davidm\sql2005 /D:widgetproduction /B:backup.snp
This would update the widgetproduction database on davidm\sql2005, create a backup snapshot before doing an updates and call the file backup.snp and provide verbose output. If you want to reset the database back to the original you would use:- SqlDbDeploy.exe /S:davidm\sql2005 /D:widgetproduction /V:true /UB:backup.snp
SqlDbDeploy - The movie Just in case you haven't installed the SDK yet you can view a flash movie of a demonstration of SqlDbDeploy.
Thank YouI would like to thank the Red Gate customers who provided information and source code which helped me to understand how they are using the SDK. In particular a big thank you to Rawden Hoff of Nebula Systems whose VB.Net example inspired me to produce this example.
Feedback & disclaimerThis example is provided "as is" and is not supported by Red Gate Software. This is my first .net Windows application so if you find this example useful or have any suggestions for improving it then it would be great to hear from youShare this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Jun 19 2008, 03:37 PM
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Microsoft VHD administrator password
Ha! I just spent the last ten minutes trying to get into a microsoft VHD. The administrator password is contained in the readme file but I just couldn't get it to work!Eventually, it dawned on me... keyboard layout!!! The password was pass@word1 and because I am in the UK it was coming out as pass"word1 but of course as it was a password textbox I couldn't see that.Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Jun 17 2008, 02:11 PM
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SQL Toolkit introduction
In my last post I talked about writing an example application using the Red Gate SQL Toolkit but it occurred to me that I ought to mention a bit more about what SQL Toolkit is and what it can be used for.
What is SQL Toolkit? SQL Toolkit is an software development kit (SDK) from Red Gate Software (my employers) that provides .net developers with an api, samples and documentation for doing schema and data comparisons of Microsoft SQL Server databases. The toolkit also has a an api for packaging databases and database updates.
Why would I use SQL Toolkit?Interestingly I believe that many of the solutions that customers are using SQL Toolkit for can already be done with the GUI or command line versions of SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare or SQL Packager products but software developers sometimes prefer to have the increased level of control that they gain by using the SDK.
The customers I have had contact with seem to use the software for the following:-
Update the database schema at a customers site without user interationAn executable is sent to the customer which they run and which compares a database snapshot with the customers database and then updates the customers database with the differences.
Continuous Integration (automated testing)Some customers had previously been using database backups for their testing but using the toolkit is significantly quicker and more effective.
Keep internal databases in sync (often in different geographical locations)The Microsoft SQL Server replication isn't as friendly or as easy as some people would like and so customers are using SQL Toolkit to keep databases synchronized across different sites.
Update SQL database for remote web hostsYou develop on a local server and then you need to migrate your changes to your web servers which are hosted remotely.
Change control and auditingSQL Toolkit is being used as part of the change control process to record changes being made to production systems.
There are certainly more uses for SQL Toolkit then I have listed but if you want to do SQL database comparison and want a high level of control then you should take a look at it.
Links: Red Gate SQL Toolkit product pageSQL Toolkit free 14 day trialShare this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Jun 05 2008, 11:37 AM
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Red Gate SQL Toolkit: SQL Deployment example
We are getting a lot of customers interested in using SQL Toolkit for deploying database updates to remote customer sites. Using SQL Toolkit you can distribute a single executable to your customers and use the Toolkit to do a schema comparison and then automatically update the customers database with the differences between a snapshot from your database and the customers database.
Up until now I haven't used SQL Toolkit that much so I thought it would be nice to learn more about the product and come up with my own example of using SQL Toolkit to deploy/update a database. A recent survey and some helpful existing customers have given me an insight into what people want such an example to do so in the next few days I intend to post my first attempt and then make improvements to it over the coming weeks.
The SQL Toolkit provides full api access to the Red Gate comparison tools giving you database schema, data and packaging functionality in your own applications. You can download a free 14 day trial of SQL Toolkit.Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Jun 04 2008, 10:27 AM
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How to: Remove Microsoft Outlook 2007 Add-in
After uninstalling Symantec Anti-virus I found that when I started Outlook 2007 it came up with the following error:
The Add-in "Symantec AntiVirus 10.1" (c:\program files(x86)\Symantec Antivirus\vpnsece4.dll) cannot be loaded by Outlook. Please contact the Add-in manufacturer for an update. If no update is available please uninstall the Add-in.
The problem was that the addin didn't appear in Tool->Trust Center->Add-ins so I couldn't uninstall it from there.
Fortunately, deleting the file extend.dat from c:\users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook and restarting Outlook done the trick. That was obvious - NOT!!
NOTE: I am running Vista x64 so if your running a different version of Windows the file is likely to be located elsewhere. Possibly C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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May 29 2008, 09:34 AM
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ASP.NET MVC: UI Helpers and code in your view
With some past experience as a web developer I still maintain an interest in web development and it's been great to see ASP.NET MVC become available and the interest this has sparked. One of the gripes that people seem to have about MVC is having a mix of HTML markup and code in views and this was something I wanted to learn more about.Now that I've seen the "Cleaning up the view" screencast I feel more comfortable with this mix. You can keep your views readable and that it's not as messy as things might first seem. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Apr 28 2008, 09:16 AM
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Joel Spolsky and his Martian headsets
In a recent blog post Joel writes about the start of the mother of all flamewars with Microsofts IE8 team write in the middle of it. It's a great article that goes into some of the difficulties faced by standards and software. Unsure where the Martian headsets fit in? Then, I recommend you go read his post - Martian headsetsShare this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Apr 01 2008, 09:50 AM
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The difference good customer service makes
Just before Christmas I purchased a rather expensive Sony digital camera and had a problem with it as it stops recording video after 10 minutes. At first I thought this must be a fault but looking at the technical support site it appears to be a "feature" which was odd because I always research thoroughly before making an expensive purchase and wasn't aware of this limitation. Revisiting the Sony website and the "10 minutes cut-off feature" isn't mentioned and so I contacted customer service and I received a very standard type reply which basically suggested that I was a fool as this was a digital camera and not a camcorder! Like a lot of people I know I always prefer to buy Sony as I have found them to be good value and reliable but after this customer service experience they no longer get preferential status in my purchasing decisions.Contrast my Sony experience to a recent Amazon customer service experience. I purchased a number of items and took advantage of the free delivery promotion but after placing the order I realized that I had missed an item. As this was Amazon, I thought they might have a way of adding my missed item to my existing order and sure enough I found a combine order feature and proceeded to use it. This didn't seem to work as expected and they sent the £1.25 item separately and they charged me £2.75 postage. I emailed Amazon customer service explaining that the web site indicated that when I combined the orders that the £2.75 postage was no longer required and they sent me a fast response and refunded the postage. Exactly what I wanted!So, congratulations to Amazon for good customer service. Boo! Hiss! to Sony for being so poor.Actually thinking about it, the Amazon customer service was good but if the email has been sent to Red Gate I would have expected (and surely received) a response similar to Amazons but going on to explain what had gone wrong and what steps were being taken to resolve it. Maybe this is the difference when customer service is provided by technical support people.Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Mar 26 2008, 08:20 AM
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Visual Studio development web server dynamic port numbering problem
The problem
I had this problem in Visual Studio 2005 and now I have it in Visual Web Developer 2008 express edition where when debugging a web application using the development web server the dynamic port number used by the server didn't match what Visual Studio had used for the web browser. It was always wrong and normally out by two or three port numbers.
For example the cassini web development server starts and I can see in the notification area what port number it uses
However the web browser started by Visual studio looks like this
Clearly that isn't going to work.
The Solution
I managed to track down the problem to my firewall software part of the ESET Smart Security Suite. Now, I am pretty sure that when I was using Visual Studio 2005 and had the problem that I was using either McAfee, Norton/Symantec or possibly even the Outpost firewall software. My solution won't work if you aren't using Eset but hopefully it will help you to look in the right area.
If you are using ESET Smary Security Suite then I bet you are using the Protocol Filtering (you can tell by looking in the Advanced Firewall Setup).You could just turn it off and ignore the rest of my blurb but you probably want to keep Protocol Filtering enabled so goto step 2.
In the Advanced setup you need to locate the section shown in the image below and uncheck the web development server.
Make sure you stop the web development server if it's still running and then try debugging from Visual Studio again.
Feedback
Please let me know if this helps you or if you think the instructions can be improved. Equally if you using a different firewall and found the solution please let me know.Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Feb 20 2008, 11:55 AM
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Microsoft SQL Server Database backups
Sometimes I find that customers are unsure about the different types of database backups available for SQL Server. Here is a quick summary of the different types of backups available with Red Gate SQL Backup and you can use one or more type of backup to provide a complete database backup and recovery solution.
FullA complete image of the entire database can be obtained by using a full backup.
AdvantagesDoesn't require any other backup for a complete restore.Works in any recovery model.
DisadvantagesBacks up all the data and so is usually slower than the other backup types.Each backup requires more disk space than other backup types.
DifferentialEach differential backups contains the changes to the database since the most recent full backup. Just to clarify, this means that the backup is cummalitive and so you only ever need to restore the last successfull differential backup.Since a differential backup only contains changes this means you must restore a full backup before restoring a differential.
AdvantagesGood choice for large databases which aren't modified very often.Backups often take less disk space and network bandwidth making them suitable for frequent backups.
DisadvantagesDoes not provide point in time restore.Cannot be restored on it's own.Cannot backup master database.
Transaction Log
Transaction logs are used to store modifications to the database and are seperate from the database file. I won't go into detail of transaction logs but each database must have at least one transaction log and each record stored in the transaction log is given a log sequence number (LSN) which uniquely identifies each record and the transactions must be restored in order.A transaction log backup contains all transactions since the last transaction log backup or the last full backup if no other transaction log backups have been taken.
AdvantagesSmaller size than other backup types.Often provide faster backup times.Point in time restore.
DisadvantagesCannot backup master or msdb databases.
Filegroups or FilesA filegroup is a group of SQL Server database files and a file/filegroup backup is ideal if you don't want to backup the whole database maybe because of disk space constraints.This type of backup does not include the transaction log part of the database so you will need to restore another database type first.
AdvantagesCan be used when disk space is at a premium.
DisadvantagesPoint in time recovery not an option.Can only be restored to database backed up from.Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Sep 23 2007, 05:08 PM
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Google fiddling the stats and conning advertisers?
I came across Google Trends today and immediately it struck me as odd that usopen.com and www.usopen.com were in the top 20 searches today. OK, I know that the US Open is currently running and that lots of people will be searching for information on the US Open but it seems easier for me to enter the url in the address bar rather than in Google.
Until that is that I remembered that frequently when I start typing a url in the browser address bar that the focus changes to the search field on the Google home page (my browsers default page).
Depending on how fast I type, this will often result in me Google search for www.wahooga.com or wahooga.com. Does that explain it or are there really that many people intentionally searching for usopen.com? Further, if usopen.com is the top search today then I wonder if this could be a subtle but deliberate ploy by Google to drive traffic and how much extra advertising revenue would this cunning piece of Javascript generate? Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Jun 14 2007, 03:51 PM
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TechEd 2007 - Totally awesome man!
After a week working giving demonstrations at the ANTS Profiler booth I'm feeling pretty tired and my feet and knees certainly were happy to return to sitting behind the desk yesterday. Although, working the booth was hard work it was also extremely enjoyable and the time spent with the rest of the Red Gate team at TechEd was great and gave me an opportunity to see my colleagues in a different light (you know who you are!).
One of the most rewarding aspects of manning the booth was the reaction that ANTS Profiler was getting from developers who appreciated the importance of memory and performance profiling but for various reasons (mainly time and budget) weren't doing it. The demos seemed to be going really well and everyone seemed very impressed with how easy to use the software was and how much time they could save. With some people it was like seeing a switch being turned on and for a couple of people it would have been nice to have had a camera to capture the image of the looks on their faces when I told them the price! Working in technical support I'm not very aware of the competition but to find out that some people had spent thousands of pounds on a competitors product and had to have training even to start using it was quite an eye opener.
The people at TechEd were great and when they realized I worked for Red Gate it was really good to hear the "your software rocks" and "your software is totally awesome man!" reaction from people who were already using our SQL tools. Some people just came across to say they were already using ANTS Profiler and just wanted to say "Hi!".Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Jun 12 2007, 07:24 AM
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TechEd 2007 - ANTS Profiler
Next week my blog will probably be even quieter than usual as I'm going to be at TechEd 2007 in Orlando, Florida.I will be at the ANTS Profiler Booth #1433 and if you are interested to see how easy it is to use ANTS Profiler for profiling .net applications then it would be great to see you there.This will be my first TechEd and although it's going to be incredibly hard work but I can't wait to get out there and meet people and give some demos on how easy it is to use ANTS Profiler. Having been a developer in a previous life I have always considered performance and memory profiling to be time consuming and hard work but I love the fact that you can get immediate results using profiler. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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May 31 2007, 08:10 AM
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What are we here for?
This is not a theological question but a question of what is the role of Technical Support in a software company.The answer I guess depends on what you are providing technical support for and who your employers are but for me Technical Support isn't just about logging someones technical problem and resolving it. To be effective I think Technical Support should involve the following:-An involvement in the communityOnly by being involved in the community that uses your products can you understand where your customers are coming from and what they want. The community can provide valuable insight into your products and your support teams weaknesses and strengths and even provide suggestions on what can be done to improve things.Education, Education, EducationThis depends once again on the products you support but many problems are related to product documentation not being read, understood or just being plain poor. Your customers may be after a quick solution and don't have time for training and see support as a quick answer to getting things done in time. Maybe the customer has inherited the software and doesn't really understand it's benefits. If you can educate your customers then you should reduce the number of technical support calls and your customers opinion and return on their investment should increase.Customer ServiceSometimes customers need to voice an issue that may not even be technical and frequently the customer will turn to the most accessible part of the company (without someone trying to sell them something!) in the hope that someone will listen and try to do something about it even if it's passing the information to the right people. Actually, I once had a customer phone up who didn't want me to do anything but just wanted to get something of his chest. Listening to your customers is a vital part of technical support.Problem solvingYes, sometimes you get to do something technical and investigate a technical problem. However, usually to get to the technical bit you actually have to understand the problem in hand and that isn't allways as easy as it sounds and once you've done the technical bit you will either end up doing some training to get the customer to understand whats going wrong and what they can do about it or maybe you have to employ your customer service skills to explain to the customer thats its a bug and you don't know when its going to be fixed.Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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May 29 2007, 08:48 PM
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