Monthly Archives: June 2012
SharePoint 2010 Fix for Spell Check of Publishing Site UserField Using JQuery
Out of the box, the SharePoint 2010 includes an awesome Spell Check feature for Publishing sites. But if you have a UserField on your Layout page, it will also spell check hidden XML codes used by the People Picker control and report dozens of invisible errors. As of this posting, I know of no supported […]
Time After Time: Temporal Modeling for Sql Audits and Historic Views
Most database designs can also provide a quick answer to questions of the form: “What information do I currently have right now about last week ?” However, historic questions like “What information did I have at the time last week about last week ?” are not often not as easy to answer. Using time as […]
On Relations and Relationships: Sql and the Rise Of Relational Database Technology
E.F. (“Ted”) Codd conceived of his relational model for databases while working at IBM in 1969. Codd’s approach took a cue from first-order predicate logic, the basis of a large number of other mathematical systems, and was presented in terms of set theory leaving physical representation and access implementer-defined. In June of 1970, Codd laid […]
Dynamic IN without Dynamic T-Sql for Sql Server
Here is stripped down T-Sql code that illustrates a “no dynamic sql” approach to the common requirement for SQL Server stored procedures to accept comma delimited ID values while maintaining strong types. SQL Server @TableVariables are more efficient than regular temp tables and enhance the performance and scalability of this technique. However @TableVariables are _NOT_ […]