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Abort, Abort, We Are XACT_ABORT:ing, Or Are We?!

SQL Server and XACT_ABORT(). Here we discuss the dangers of using XACT_ABORT in SQL Server OLTP databases. DO NOT DO IT!!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 8, 2017

SQL Server Error Handling Gotchas

SQL Server and error handling. How error handling in SQL Server can trip you up!

Posted by nielsb on Saturday, December 31, 2016

Testing, Testing, Anyone Out There?

Resuscitated my blogging, maybe?!

Posted by nielsb on Wednesday, December 28, 2016

SQL Saturday Presentations

Post about the two SQL Saturday Presentations I did in Cape Town and Johannesburg

Posted by nielsb on Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Installing Octopress on Windows

A post how to install Octopress on Windows

Posted by nielsb on Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Moving to a New Blog Engine

Every so often I get an itch, and I want to try out a new blog-platform. The time has now come to leave my self-hosted WordPress and move on to something “geekier” (I am a geek after all).

I have just now finished moving my few posts from WordPress to the new engine: OctoPress. In a future blog post on the new blog I will try to explain why I made the move, and why OctoPress. The new blog will be hosted on Windows Azure - I do get free Azure credits together with my MSDN subscription, so I thought I’d see what all the “fuss” about Windows Azure is.

Posted by nielsb on Wednesday, October 2, 2013

SqlClrProject on GitHub

As some of you may know, I - once upon a time - developed a project (VS add-in, templates, etc) for automatic deployment of CLR assemblies to SQL Server: SqlClrProject. That project has been dormant now for a couple of years, but I now and then get requests for where it can be downloaded from (I had it on CodePlex, but had to take it down as I didn’t publish the source code).

Posted by nielsb on Saturday, November 3, 2012

First Impressions Microsoft BUILD - Win 8

I have a while ago just finished watching the live stream of the first keynote (yes there will be one tomorrow as well), at Microsoft BUILD. Having attended / presented, at quite a few of these kind of events - and being somewhat jaded (well OK then, a lot jaded), I must still say that I am impressed.

Posted by nielsb on Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Transactions in SQL Server (take 2956)

Transactions in SQL Server seems to be a difficult topic to grasp. This weekend I came across a blog-post where the poster showed a “solution” to the “The ROLLBACK TRANSACTION request has no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION” error we sometimes see when various stored procedures call each other. The solution (even though it masked out the error in question) did not get it quite right. So I thought I would make a post about the subject.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 11, 2011

F#, Mono and Mac - Take II

So yesterday I wrote about how I have started using F# and Mono on my MacBook.

I wrote about how I downloaded the F# bits, unzipped and put them in a specific directory I had created. Today after having browsed around a bit more I realized I had done it the hard way. To install the required bits for F# for Mac, you only have to download a zip file with an install package for Mac from the F# Cross Platform site on CodePlex. The actual zip-file for the November 2010 CTP is here.

Posted by nielsb on Saturday, November 20, 2010