SQL Server Upgrade Recommendations and Best Practices – Part 2

The first article of the series, Part 1 - Upgrade Overview and Project Planning, detailed the business justification for upgrades to SQL Server 2000 related to TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), automation capabilities and new features from both the Business and DBA perspectives. The next portion of the article outlined a detailed process to break down the SQL Server 2000 project as well as the…

Creating Setup and Deployment Projects in VS.NET

This step-by-step tutorial guides you how to create a setup and deployment project using Visual Studio .NET to build a setup of your applications. Even before we could get into the VS.NET mode of creating setups we will have a quick introduction on the need of automated setups.

Whose Dream Are you Living?

"I learned that it's hard to reach a destination when you're unsure of the destination and merely flipping a coin at every intersection," Marie told me. The turning point in her life was when she learned which of her dreams were hers, and which she'd assumed from others.

Strategies for Categorizing Categories

How does a site containing thousands of pages of content get users to the content they seek quickly? There are many different strategies for organizing content on sites and we recently took a hard look at five of them.