Performance and Design Guidelines for Data Access Layers

Some useful thought before building your DAL... check it out

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ricom/archive/2012/01/10/performance-and-design-guidelines-for-data-access-layers.aspx

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samitha

3 indispensible Windows 7 management tools

Now that enterprises are settling into Windows 7, there are plenty of new additions and enhancements to explore and discover. This mini guide highlights the most useful management features for the Ultimate and Enterprise versions, such as: AppLocker, a security tool for defining and managing user desktop executables DirectAccess, a remote access tool for plugging directly into the corporate network Windows XP Mode, a tool for creating a working virtual machine within Windows 7 And more

Building HTML5 Applications: Using HTML5 Canvas for Data Visualization

The new HTML5 canvas element gives you the power to create and manipulate images and animations on the fly. It's not just for complex projects like games. 

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh708752.aspx

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Getting Started with Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM) in SQL Server 2012

The Business Intelligence Semantic Model is one of the most significant enhancements in SQL Server 2012. BISM allows aspects of the traditional multidimensional model to coexist with the relational model in a format called the tabular model and can be used with all client tools in the Microsoft BI stack.

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http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2012/bism-sql-server-2012/

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Intersect, Except, Union, All and Any

This article examines some of the little used T-SQL items function and see if they work for you

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http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/67545/

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INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE against a Database Snapshot

This article demonstrates that it is possible to run an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE against a Database Snapshot. 

http://sqlcat.com/sqlcat/b/msdnmirror/archive/2011/10/17/successfully-execute-an-insert-update-and-delete-against-a-database-snapshot.aspx

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URL Redirect Checker

When the amount of links on your site begin to grow, you'll be faced with all sorts of dead links, structure changes and more. It's important that you provide as many re-directs as you can when this happens, and that they work. Use this URL Redirect Checker to check any re-direct link.

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Samitha