If you are wondering about the original article discussed earlier disappeared from Microsoft web-site, there was some info here. In addition to Marco’s comments earlier, there is some more here. Update (May 30, 2008): Marco posted today that article is back online. It is now available as PDF and XPS here.
Marco has commented on the article by one of the Microsoft folks about the failure of the Vista launch. After few minutes looking for the guy, I think I found the author for the article – Mark Russinovich, “Technical Fellow” and his Springboard series. There is my take on it. Read more…
When you dealing with dynamic SQL or unknown table structure, SQL meta data could help recover the missing information. There are two main system tables which give you such information: dbo.sysobjects dbo.syscolumns Example below shows how to gather column list for specified table. DECLARE @TABLENAME varchar(256), @COLUMNS varchar(4000) SET @TABLENAME Read more…
I am continuing putting some common examples of operations for Microsoft SQL Server. In addition to some of the Date related code snippets published before, there are few more today: — Last 90 days: select DATEADD(day, -90, GETDATE()) — Get Date portion of DateTime value select DATEADD(d, 0, DATEDIFF(d, 0, Read more…
Borland has published revenues for CodeGear in Q1. As a matter of fact we could compare ALM and CG part. Three Months Ended Three Months Ended March 31, 2008 March 31, 2007 Enterprise CodeGear || Enterprise CodeGear ALM DPG IDE || ALM DPG IDE || Licenses Read more…
As we all know, CodeGear will have a new home in a few months when merger is completed. Considering the size of two companies, I do see it more as a merger then acquisition at this point. Future movements will define the term better in the sense that if some Read more…
News of the day – CodeGear being finally and quietly sold… to Embarcadero Technologies… At Embarcadero Technologies we know databases, we understand the important role they play in every organization and we love meeting their challenges. It took two+ years for story to end. From original $100M+, it now came Read more…