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June 2005 - Posts

SQL Tip: Enter Null Values
27 June 05 08:59 AM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

Ever wonder how to enter null while editing directly a table in enterprise manager? Ending by manually creating Update SQL Statement? Try CTRL-0!

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Design Patterns when you want to keep history of changes
16 June 05 11:40 AM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

After having the problem of keeping history of about everything, someone told me to look at Martin Fowler's website (who works for ThoughtWorks. The current article Patterns for things that change with time demonstrate some way of beeing able to know how a database entity was at a fixed point of time. Audit Log, Effectivity, Temporal Property, Snapshot, Temporal Objects and Timepoint are some patterns that are know functionnal.

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Environment Integrated RSS
13 June 05 07:15 AM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

I'm using outlook, and I'm reading RSS, why not use an integrated tool?

http://www.rsspopper.com/

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Beta or not Beta
01 June 05 10:25 AM | Frederick.Chapleau | with no comments

I've recently started to work on a project (really big, about 700 mendays) with Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 and I am thinking about the stage that should be a product prior to be released as a beta product. Is there a way to test the product before releasing it to stamp it as a beta? And according to the basics of a beta version, you should not release only the beta when you are sure that the version is stable enough to do only minor fixes prior to release it as version 1?

Why Beta 2, because beta one was the Alpha version? Hum... maybe they should rename their beta version to charlie version... and go until they rearch the zulu version...

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