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Visual Studio 2012 and TFS Admin updates

Grant’s not on holiday (ho ho! Snap!), as we can tell because he’s posted a couple of updates about...

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/26/2012

Using Distributed Replay to load test your SQL Server–Part 2

In the first part of this series, Batuhan Yildiz, a Premier Field Engineer from Microsoft Dubai,...

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/14/2012

Using Distributed Replay to load test your SQL Server–Part 1

This article has been contributed by Batuhan Yildiz, a Premier Field Engineer from Microsoft Dubai....

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/08/2012

How To Secure SQL Server Data With Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

It's not news that data security should always be top-of-mind for DBAs. So, for those of you using...

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/17/2012

SharePoint Custom Code Review Service (MSPFE Video Blog)

Article by Tamer Maher, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Have you ever been in a situation...

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/15/2012

Windows 8–the Super Workstation OS

Vijayshinva Karnure, a Premier Field Engineer from India, writes about using Windows 8 as his...

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/11/2012

Mobile or Cloudy?

Damana (Geek Diva), a developer PFE from Australia, explores how you choose what your next...

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/09/2012

SharePoint 2013 Developer Ignite Training (MSPFE Video Blog)

Article by Tamer Maher, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. As part of the excitement around...

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/09/2012

How WebSockets and the ASP.Net Web API look in memory

Nelson’s been spelunking around the memory structures of WCF 4.5’s support for WebSockets and the...

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/20/2012

Explore your application to test it with Visual Studio 2012

Continuing their series on new features in Visual Studio 2012, Brad over at the PFE Developer Notes...

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/20/2012

Did you know: Visual Studio 2012 now provides Caller Information?

Brad at the PFE Developer Notes for the Field blog shares news of Caller Information, a new feature...

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/19/2012

Moving TFS from Server to Service, on Windows Azure

Grant Holliday is a PFE from Canberra who recently worked with the TFS product group in Redmond....

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/18/2012

Got a Windows 8 App idea? Built it? Does it need polish?

My colleague Damana is running Windows 8 Application Excellence labs too, and she’s compiled a list...

Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/05/2012

The brilliance of SharePoint 2013's new Work Management Service Application!!

Have you ever walked into your office in the morning, and wondered if you were forgetting something...

Author: webtamer Date: 08/22/2012

The Dawn of SharePoint 2013!

Hello Friends, Colleagues and SharePoint fans!!! I'm sure that by now you are as excited as I am...

Author: webtamer Date: 07/21/2012

SharePoint Governance plans and why are they important?

Before we dive into answering this question, we have to acknowledge that technology is meant to...

Author: webtamer Date: 07/21/2012

Visual Studio 2012 and Parallel Watch Window

Traditionally, debuggers have been very per thread centric. For example, a debugger most typically...

Author: Mario Hewardt Date: 06/11/2012

Visual Studio 2012 and WinDbg Integration

Microsoft has always provided two primary debugging experience: Visual Studio and Debugging Tools...

Author: Mario Hewardt Date: 06/05/2012

Fault Isolation + SharePoint = Content Resilience!

One of the common poor design decisions I have seen in the field is using a single Web Application...

Author: webtamer Date: 06/01/2012

The Non Blocking Monitor Wait

  One of key things we are taught about lock constructs in general is that a thread will wait...

Author: Mario Hewardt Date: 05/31/2012

Index Rebuild and Parallelism

Recently there have been some conversations around why SQL Server does not use parallel index...

Author: Arvind Shyamsundar Date: 05/30/2012

Implementing MDX Drillthrough in SSRS

Let’s say for some reason your users want to implement MDX DRILLTHROUGH statement (equivalent to the...

Author: Arvind Shyamsundar Date: 03/19/2012

T-SQL Anti-pattern of the day: 'all-in-one' queries

Scenario A common requirement for enquiry queries on an OLTP database is to have search criteria...

Author: Arvind Shyamsundar Date: 12/19/2008

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