Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 3

Weekly roundup of what interesting stuff I have found.

Interesting Stuff - Week 2

Weekly roundup of what interesting stuff I have found.

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!!

SQL Server Error Handling Gotchas

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

Testing, Testing, Anyone Out There?

Resuscitated my blogging, maybe?!

SQL Saturday Presentations

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

Installing Octopress on Windows

A post how to install Octopress on Windows

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.


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).


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.