One of the beautiful things about using LINQ to SharePoint to retrieve data from your lists and libraries is the absolute ease in which you can retrieve data from two or more lists which are joined by lookup fields. For more information on setting up LINQ to SharePoint in your developmennt environment, check out my…
I’ll be honest. I don’t like writing CAML queries. There, I said it… How about using LINQ instead to access the data in your lists and libraries? It’s really pretty simple. You can use the SPMetal.exe located in c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\15\bin to generate both a data context and LINQ classes which you…
SharePoint 2013 comes with a new and improved developer dashboard that allows you to easily monitor: Thread execution time Call stack information and query text for each SQL Server query generated by the page Call stack information for each WCF call URL and job timer information Execution start time SPMonitoredScope statistics In SharePoint 2013, the…
Over the years, many of us star schema architects have come up with our own standard for a table structure to house data for our date dimension. In addition, we have written countless scripts to populate data into our date dimension table. Ensuring we have the right attributes (columns) in our date table allows us…
When building SQL Server data warehouses should user-defined schemas be used? Should tables and views be prefixed? Or, maybe we should do both. After talking to a few people about this and doing a little research, one thing is clear. Deciding to use schemas and/or prefixes is much more of a personal preference than…
Although still relatively new in a broad sense, many of us have embraced the “Metro” design concepts that are the face of both the Windows 8 Operating system, as well as the Windows 7 and 8 Phone. For more on what “Metro Design” is, you can visit the wiki here. I have been running Windows…
Many of you know I have helped coordinate the Denver Microsoft Business Intelligence user group for the last couple of years. I am happy to share with you all that we have an exciting new format planned for the new year. Our traditional format was aimed at bringing the community together once a month at…
Happy New Year all! The next meeting of the Office 365 International User Group will be January 29th at 2pm Mountain Time. Below is a link to the Meeting information to get it added to your calendar. Hope you can join the meeting and encourage you to pass the word around to anyone who is…
Lync 2010 Cumulative Update – February 2012 Lync Server 2010 build number is 4.0.7577.197…
This is an updated version of the blog post for OpsMgr 2007 available at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2011/06/03/how-can-i-auto-close-a-variety-of-opsmgr-alerts-on-a-scheduled-basis.aspx. The only updates to this blog are the revision to the PowerShell script so that it will work in Operations Manager 2012 and a change from referencing the RMS to just management servers. In Operations Manager 2012 alerts can…
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