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Thread Safe Library Update

As always, my life revolves around threading.  So I have a few classes that I use frequently for these purposes.  Now, fortunately, .NET 4.0 will include much of this functionality in PFX, but for now, we have this. ThreadSafeLibrary
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Brian Rudolph
tags: threading c# async idisposable
Dec 01 2009 04:44 PM
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Thirsty Developer Interview Posted

For those of you interested, I have recorded an interview with The Thirsty Developer (http://www.thirstydeveloper.com).  The interview is based around a user group presentation that I give about the new features of SQL Server 2008 for developers. I
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Chuck
tags: sql server 2008 column sets spatial new features
Apr 29 2009 03:56 AM
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SQL Server 2008 Backup Compression

With SQL Server 2008, Microsoft introduced native backup compression.  Prior to SQL Server 2008, the only way to get real-time backup compression was to buy a third-party tool.  There were – and still are – several third-party tools
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Chuck
tags: sql server 2008 backup native compression
Apr 21 2009 08:30 AM
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PASS Call for Presentations - You've Got Through April 24, 2009

Those of you who know me know that I am a big supporter of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS).  I have been involved with this organization since 2000 - when I spoke at their North American conference in San Francisco.  Since
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Chuck
tags: sql server presentations pass pass community summit
Apr 20 2009 06:29 AM
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HashSet Deserialization Oddities

So, yesterday was a fun day.  I spent all day trying to debug a state in which one of your QA web servers' worker processes would go into an infinite loop and peg a core on the CPU.  After many hours, and finally installing the remote
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Brian Rudolph
Mar 25 2009 07:45 PM
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MSCS Clusters, iSCSI, Distance Clusters and SQL 2005

This has been a fun week with clustering.  Myself and a few others have been working this week on setting up a couple lab environments. Lab 1: 2 - Hyper-V Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise 64Bit VM'siSCSI LUNSMSCS Shared Quorum Cluster1 - SQL Server
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Michael Steineke
tags: distance cluster mscs cluster 30m
Mar 07 2009 10:00 AM
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SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Woes

I’ve been working on upgrading an application from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008.  Simple process, right?  Well, I ran into a few issues along the way that I thought I would share with you.   First, make sure that your processor
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Chuck
tags: sql server 2008 upgrade affinity mask dbcc checkdb
Mar 03 2009 03:07 AM
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Inline Asynchronous UI Coding using IDisposable in C# .NET

I recently watched this video on the PowerThreading library: http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2008/12/03/jeff-richter-video-on-asynchronous-programming-and-his-power-threading-library.aspx This is very interesting as Jeff Richter utilizes a strange
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Brian Rudolph
tags: threading c# async idisposable
Dec 15 2008 09:30 PM
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PASS Community Summit Recap

This year was my last year as a member of the leadership of the Professional Association for SQL Server.  I will still be involved with the organization, but will be rolling off of the Board of Directors at the end of my 2 year term in December.
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Chuck
tags: sql server pass mvp gray systems lab
Dec 04 2008 05:48 AM
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More Threading Goodness!

Threading - I write about it a lot, even though i would consider myself somewhat of a rookie when it comes to threading complexities. One of the challenges we often find when trying to incorporate threading into applications is managing work units,
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Brian Rudolph
tags: threading c#
Nov 27 2008 01:18 AM
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Silverlight 2 XAML Binding and Custom / Core Dependency Properties

The basic scenario is as follows:  I have done quite a bit of WPF programming in the past (since back when it was WinFx).  I feel pretty damn good about the bindings in WPF, and I feel like I have wrapped my head around binding and dependency
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David Justice
tags: silverlight 2 binding dependency property
Nov 23 2008 10:44 PM
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Silver Lining for Windows Azure -- Silverlight 2 Sample Hosted in Azure

  I melded an Azure Web Role project and the Silverlight Toolkit sample to give you guys a quick download, so you can play with them together.  I hope you like it, and I hope it helps you explore some of the new technology.  I call
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David Justice
tags: azure windows azure silverlight toolkit silverlight 2
Nov 08 2008 08:30 PM
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Unique Identifier Flat File Import with SSIS

  This morning I found myself wrestling with SSIS to convert a string from a flat file to a unique identifier via a Data Flow inside of an SSIS package.  I figured this would be a rather trivial case (the midget was kicking my ass!).
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David Justice
tags: guid sql ssis unique identfier
Nov 07 2008 09:14 PM
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MetaTable Expression Builder for Fetching Any Object Via Collection of Primary Keys

Basically, I wanted to build a method that gets an object from a data context whatever the primary key may look like, and whatever type that object may be.  I wrote this code a little while ago when I was exploring the DynamicData libs.  I was
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David Justice
tags: metamodel expressions expression building linq
Nov 04 2008 07:23 PM
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Windows Azure and _NOT_ SQLExpress

I've been very excited recently by the release of Windows Azure, and rest of the Microsoft suite of cloud based services.  I downloaded all of the sdk's, signed up for all the invitation tokens I could, and began writing code.  The
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David Justice
tags: azure sqlexpress windows azure cloud computing
Nov 02 2008 10:07 PM
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Work Harder

Work Harder!  That is a statement I find myself repeating daily.  People often wonder what makes one person better at a certain task than others.  There is a truly simple answer, practice.  Natural ability is a myth.  With the
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Brian Rudolph
Oct 21 2008 08:56 PM
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Thread Safe Dictionary Update

  For those of you that have read my post about the Thread Safe Dictionary, I have a few updates.  In recent months, I have done a ridiculous amount of multi-threaded work.  This has forced me to expand my threading libraries.  One of
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Brian Rudolph
tags: threading c#
Sep 29 2008 09:44 PM
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Thread Safe Dictionary in .NET with ReaderWriterLockSlim

Since MS has decided to not include a thread-safe dictionary in the .NET framework, many of us have been forced to implement our own.  What MS has done now with .NET 3.5 is given us a newer locking mechanism which makes this task
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Brian Rudolph
tags: dictionary threading c# idisposable
Sep 26 2008 08:44 PM
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I'm an MVP!

I found out this morning that I've been named a SQL Server MVP (Most Valuable Professional). For those of you who don't know what the MVP program is, here's a brief overview. Each quarter, Microsoft selects a group of people across many
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Chuck
tags: sql server pass mvp
Jul 02 2008 11:56 AM
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SQL Server 2008 RC0

For those of you who haven't heard, RC0 of SQL Server 2008 has been released. If you have played with any of the CTP releases of SQL Server 2008, you'll notice that there are a few differences in the installer - but not enough to cause you to
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Chuck
tags: sql server 2008 features ctp rc0
Jun 14 2008 12:09 AM
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TechEd Developer - Day 3

Another day, more booth duty.  I spent a good part of my day working with the VSTS Database Edition team.  Great group of people - and they have a great product.  It is nice talking to people who have no idea how the product can help
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Chuck
tags: sql server data dude teched velocity
Jun 07 2008 01:44 AM
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TechEd Developer - Day 2

I spent a bunch of time today in the SQL Server TLC area down on the show floor.  I did, however, manage to get away for a great session on Extended Events presented by Bob Beauchemin - who I had dinner with the night before at a great Brazilian
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Chuck
tags: sql server teched extended events
Jun 06 2008 02:05 AM
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TechEd Developer - Day 1

I just got out of the keynote for TechEd Developer.  Bill Gates actually opened up for a Q&A session from the floor.  Quite impressive. It was announced that Silverlight 2 Beta 2 will be released by the end of the week, and that you will be
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Chuck
tags: teched keynote silverlight
Jun 03 2008 08:40 PM
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TechEd Developer

If you're going to be at TechEd in Orlando next week, stop by and say Hi!  I'll be in the Microsoft TLC area over lunch Tuesday through Friday.  I'll be helping out the VSTS folks.  Hope to see you there.
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Chuck
tags: data dude teched conferences visual studio
May 31 2008 02:45 AM
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PASS Call for Presentations - Deadline Extended Again!

Due to technical difficulties, the deadline for submitting abstracts for the 2008 PASS Community Summit has been extended through Monday, April 7, 2008. If you are interested in submitting an abstract, please do so at http://calltospeakers.sqlpass.org/.
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Chuck
tags: pass pass community summit call for presentations
Apr 01 2008 10:09 PM