Should I Become a Certified Ethical Hacker?
Apr 25,
2018
Maybe you’ve heard a little about the Certified Ethical Hacker or CEH exam. You probably have some questions: What is a certified ethical hacker? How does a CEH fit into an IT organization? How do you get certified? What knowledge and skills are crucial to success? How does CEH relate to other cybersecurity certifications? Let’s […]
SET NOCOUNT ON Is More Important Than You Think
Apr 24,
2018
Most seasoned SQL Server administrators and developers will tell you to include SET NOCOUNT ON in all your stored procedure code. The reason generally given is to turn off the unnecessary “n rows affected” message that appears so often in the Management Studio Message pane. However, the “rows affected” message is only the visible tip […]
Actually, Project Managers are Pretty Good at Estimating Software Projects
Apr 18,
2018
Fortunately for the organizations they work for, development teams are smart enough not to build the original project’s design — which is why we have Scrum and Agile. But, even with Scrum, good estimating may be the least important thing you have to do: Adopting Scrum, Kanban, or any Agile methodology means that you have […]
Work fast with Microsoft Word Quick Parts
,
2018
Microsoft Word Quick Parts makes some of the AutoText and Building Blocks features easily available on the Insert tab of the ribbon. Quick Parts helps you store and quickly insert content into your documents easier. AutoText If you have blocks of text that you need typed out frequently in your documents, you can use the […]
SQL Server’s Graph Database for Contacts and Connections
Apr 17,
2018
What are Graph Tables? Amy J, a student in Learning Tree’s course 8463, Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2014 asks “I see SQL Server 2017 has a “graph database” feature. How does a graph differ from the old HierarchyID datatype?”. Good question, Amy. While the old hierarchyID datatype can represesnt, in a very simplistic way, an […]