This article explores agile and lean philosophies towards documentation within IT organizations.

You can create links that will launch the Web Platform Installer with a custom list of tools. You can see an example of this by clicking through on the install button at http://asp.net/downloads (cancelling the installation dialog). You'll see this in the address bar: http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appsxml=&appid=MVC3;ASPNET;NETFramework4;SQLExpress;VWD

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It's not uncommon that a few months after a new project is released, the database performance degrades. Several things could be responsible for this degradation, but the one I’ve seen more often is data and structure related. In these cases, I noticed that the database was not designed with any consideration for the volume of data it will have, so the structure of the database (columns, indexes) and the queries became a problem. Of course, adding more and more data to the database, increasing the quantity of users accessing it and having poor performing queries can increase the possibility of a deadlock’s occurrence.

the basics of SQL Server memory management

A message inspector is an extensibility object that can be used in the service model's client runtime and dispatch runtime programmatically or through configuration and that can inspect and alter messages after they are received or before they are sent.

This semester we have some great stuff for you. As always you'll get free top-notch SQL Server content from experts all around the world including Grant Fritchey, Tom LaRock, Stacia Misner, Brian Kelley, Aaron Nelson and many more! In addition to the usual posts from the professors, we're also trying something new out this semester that I'm REALLY excited about! Typically every week we have Tom LaRock serve as the DBA coach. He posts a kind of summary post on the topic of the week pointing out more resources for you to explore on the given topic. This semester we're adding a new interactive element to SQL University we're calling Office Hours, or Afternoon Ignite with Tom LaRock!

The next major release of the .NET Framework, .NET 4.5, allows you to easily use Windows 8 technologies, like Windows Runtime, directly from .NET 4.5. Accessing your data is easier than ever with support for the newest features in SQL Server and support for WebSockets. Programs are more responsive, with the AWAIT keyword, faster ASP.NET startup and an improved server Garbage Collector. .NET 4.5 incorporates key customer feedback, with the newest MEF features, support for long running workflows with State Machines, and improved HTML 5 support in ASP.NET. In this overview talk, you’ll learn about all of these technologies, and get pointers to deeper dives where you can learn more.

This article discusses the output of the DBCC MEMORYSTATUS command. This command is frequently used to troubleshoot Microsoft SQL Server memory consumption issues.

This article describes the elements of the output for Memory Manager, for the summary of memory usage, for the aggregate memory information, for the buffer distribution information, for the buffer pool information, and for the procedure cache information. It also describes the output about global memory objects, about query memory objects, about optimization, and about memory brokers.

Castle validator component is an open source validation framework that uses property attribute to specify validation rules on class. In this article, I will explain how to use it and how it works from inside out.

The Web Workers APIs define a way to run script in the background. We will then be able to execute some tasks in threads living outside the main page and thus non-impacting the drawing performance. However, in the same way that we know that not all algorithms can be parallelized, not all JavaScript code can take advantage of workers. Ok, enough blah blah, let’s have a look to those famous workers.

SQL Server Developer Tools, or SSDT (code-named “Juneau”), represents Microsoft’s continued commitment to providing integrated tools for developers targeting Microsoft SQL Server. Those familiar with the previous versions of the Database Project in Visual Studio will find that Juneau is an evolution of those tools for SQL Server, plus many new capabilities and improvements. Juneau provides a unified toolset that combines the projects found in SQL Server Business Intelligence Design Studio (BIDS)—including Reporting, Analysis and Integration Services projects—with the SQL Server Database Project