October 2009 - Posts

• A week in Seattle

  Tomorrow morning I’ll fly to Seattle for the usual PASS Community Summit. I’m really happy for the next week. Even if this period is really full of work and a week away means that at my return I’ll have *really* busy times, the PASS Conference is always Read More... Posted Friday, October 30, 2009 11:02 PM by Davide Mauri | 0 Comments Filed under: Business Intelligence, DTLoggedExec, Integration Services, Logging, PASS, SSIS

• Five Simple Database Design You Should Avoid

  On Simple-Talk there’s a really good article on five database design flaw that are commonly found in solutions and that should be avoided. The article is a must-read: http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/five-simple--database-design-errors-you-should-avoid/?utm_source=simpletalk&utm_medium=email&utm_content=DatabaseDesign20090519&utm_campaign=SQL Read More... Posted Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:41 AM by Davide Mauri | 0 Comments Filed under: Database Design

• QueryUnit POC v.0.0.0.6

  Yesterday I released a new version of QueryUnit , a tool I've created to easily perform unit testing on SQL Server and Analysis Services databases. The main feature of this new version is the ability to automatically launch the NUnit GUI so that it’s Read More... Posted Sunday, October 11, 2009 12:02 PM by Davide Mauri | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, QueryUnit, Unit Testing

• Does NoSQL people really want to drop the relational model?

  In these last days I’ve talked a lot with developers to understand why the “NoSQL” idea fascinates them so much. Or, put in other words, why they think that leaving RDBMS behind will help them. Well, rephrasing again, I can formulate the question in a Read More... Posted Friday, October 02, 2009 9:03 AM by Davide Mauri | 8 Comments Filed under: NoSQL, Relational Model