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Top 10 best LogParser links ( plus a bonus 7 =P )

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/08/microsoft-logparser.html This is my fav one because of the pretty picture at the top =P http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/forensic-log-parsing-microsofts-logparser This one is second fav because it uses the word 'forensic' and they are doing a scenario track down instead of just a bunch of random queries. This one is usually the first extended stop because it uses actual LogParser commands instead of just listing the sql queries. http://serverfault.com/questions/45516/recommended-logparser-queries-for-iis-monitoring This one I find useful every time. Not sure why. I think because of the succinctness of the queries and by this time, I am normally using query files instead of straight up LogParser commands and since generally I am...

posted @ Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:23 AM | Feedback (0)

Top 10 Fabian Pascal Articles/Pages/Responses

I'm a big fan of Fabian Pascal. Here are 10 Articles/Pages/Responses that I like the best. =P You can find tons more from these though. They are almost all pure gold. =) On Grinding Water: Reply to St. Laurent NO THEORY, NO RELATIONAL, NO THINKING On Incompetence ON CALLING A SPADE A SPADE: REPLY TO CALLAHAN The Data Exchange Tail - Part 1 ON TRADE MEDIA'S "BALANCE": ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST If You Liked SQL,You'll Love XQUERY Something “Old,” Something “New,” Neither True An Old Class of Errors The XML Bug+ 1 Truth, Fads and Principles: What's Wrong with the Database Industry?

posted @ Monday, July 09, 2007 8:19 PM | Feedback (1)

Top 10 Articles on Storing XML BLOB data in SQL2005, maybe using compression, sqlclr or encryption =)

SERIOUSLY too long of an article name, but hey, it covers a large amount of stuff. I basically had some large XML blobs (wordml docs) I needed to store in SQL and I wanted to store them as compressed BLOBs to save space. These are the articles I found most useful at the time when I was working on that.   Using CLR integration to compress BLOBs/CLOBs in SQL Server 2005 CLR Stored Procedures Passing a DataSet to a SQLCLR Stored Procedure Storing Binary Files Directly in the Database Using ASP.NET 2.0 How to read and write a file to or from a BLOB column by...

posted @ Sunday, July 08, 2007 11:10 PM | Feedback (0)