August 2010 - Posts

• Beyond Multiple Choice link and survey

  As I previously blogged, Beyond Multiple Choice is the name Microsoft has given to a proposed performance based testing engine to be used in certification exams of the future. They've posted a link to a demo: http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/btl/b/weblog/archive/2010/09/08/lab-exam-demo-for-developers-tell-us-what-you-think.aspx Read More... Posted Sunday, August 29, 2010 10:19 PM by John Paul Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: certification

• Script to list synonym contents

  Synonyms are useful in repointing code to point to a different location without changing the code. Some shops use synonyms to deploy the same T-SQL source code to different servers (i.e., development, test, production). I was asked to provide a simple Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 24, 2010 2:18 PM by John Paul Cook | 6 Comments