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Save your Kindle Highlights to Evernote with ClippingsConverter. Ahh, the Kindle. It's changed reading forever. It's a double-edged sword, of course: gone are the days of carrying stacks of books, since thousands can now fit in your pocket. On the other hand, purists lament the demise of the physical book, the smell of its pages, the lure of the library.

The comparisons between ebooks and paper books are sometwhat premature, however. The Kindle of today is not the device that will mark the end of paper books (in fact, that day may never come). The proof lies in the marginalia; or, rather, in the lack thereof. How to manage multiple Instagram accounts. WordPress Photography Themes by Photocrati. Page Last Updated on December 4, 2013 Websites for Photographers Trusted by 18,000+ photographers and visual artists.

WordPress Photography Themes by Photocrati

Join a great community of photographers and enjoy huge photography-loving functionality built on WordPress. Photonic Gallery for Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, 500px, Zenfolio and Instagram. Photonic lets you use the WordPress gallery shortcode and super-charges it with a lot of added functionality.

Photonic Gallery for Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, 500px, Zenfolio and Instagram

It adds support for several new parameters to enhance the content and look-and-feel of your galleries. My Startup has 30 Days to Live — In 30 days, my startup will be be dead. SQL Server Certification. Training Kit (Exam 70-461): Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012: Itzik Ben-Gan, Dejan Sarka, Ron Talmage: 9780735666054: Amazon.com. Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup. I regularly get emails from young people, usually those with an interest in programming, who are trying to make decisions about school and/or their professional futures.

Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup

This post is for those young people. How to Build Your Own Syncing RSS Reader with Tiny Tiny RSS and Kick Google Reader to the Curb. This Minimalistic Gmail Cheat Sheet Will Make You A Gmail Wizard. No chart in the world can help get rid of your 20,000 unread emails on Gmail.

This Minimalistic Gmail Cheat Sheet Will Make You A Gmail Wizard

OmniFocus at Camp 1 Vineyard. This is the third in our Customer Stories series.

OmniFocus at Camp 1 Vineyard

Late last summer we traveled down to Rancho Alamo Camp 1 to talk to Michael Werk, owner and operator. Before (an alleged) retirement, Michael spent days traveling and directing commercials for TV. The Simple Reason Why Goodreads Is So Valuable to Amazon - Jordan Weissmann. A small fraction of Americans buy the vast majority of books in this country.

The Simple Reason Why Goodreads Is So Valuable to Amazon - Jordan Weissmann

Goodreads gives Jeff Bezos & Co. a direct line into their thoughts and habits. (Reuters) Amazon is the king of online booksellers and, by most accounts, the most feared player in publishing. How to: Compare the Data of Two Databases. This topic applies to: By using Visual Studio, you can compare the data that is contained in two databases.

How to: Compare the Data of Two Databases

The databases that you compare are known as the source and the target. As the data is compared, a Data Manipulation Language (DML) script is generated, which you can use to synchronize the differing databases by updating some or all of the data on the target database. When the data comparison finishes, its results appear in the Data Compare window of Visual Studio. SQL Server Database Comparison Tool. Introduction I started working for my current employer five years ago.

SQL Server Database Comparison Tool

In the beginning, every time we created a new database object, we generated a script and then send it by mail to the person responsible for implementation. Getting Started with SQL Server Database Unit Testing in SSDT - SQL Server Data Tools Team Blog. Unit testing SQL Server databases with SSDT is very straightforward, although there are a couple of things to look out for.

Getting Started with SQL Server Database Unit Testing in SSDT - SQL Server Data Tools Team Blog

First you must have Visual Studio 2010 or 2012 Professional edition or higher installed. If you have Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Ultimate edition installed then the new SQL Server database unit testing installs alongside the existing database unit testing from Visual Studio. You can continue to use the old tools but you cannot mix database unit tests created by both versions in the same test project - more on this below. Test Projects and converting existing Test Projects SQL Server unit tests are created in a normal VB or C# Test project. SSDT introduces a new SQL Server Unit Test template and type. SQL Server Testing Tips. Verifying Database Code by Using SQL Server Unit Tests. You can use SQL Server unit tests to establish a baseline state for your database and then to verify any subsequent changes that you make to database objects.

Verifying Database Code by Using SQL Server Unit Tests

You can create tests that verify changes to any database object. In addition, you can automatically generate stubs of Transact-SQL code that test database functions, triggers, and stored procedures. As you or your team members change the database schema, you can use these tests to verify whether the changes have broken existing functionality. You create SQL Server unit tests to complement the software unit tests that your software developers create. A testing framework for Microsoft SQL-Server. Database Testing: How to Regression Test a Relational Database. Relational database management systems (RDBMSs) often persist mission-critical data which is updated by many applications and potentially thousands if not millions of end users. Furthermore, they implement important functionality in the form of database methods (stored procedures, stored functions, and/or triggers) and database objects (e.g. Java or C# instances). The best way to ensure the continuing quality of these assets, at least from a technical point of view, you should have a full regression test suite which you can run on a regular basis.

In this article I argue for a fully automated, continuous regression testing based approach to database testing. Just as agile software developers take this approach to their application code, see Agile Testing and Quality Strategies, we should also do the same for our databases. Table of Contents 1. Chapter 8. Database Testing. Sql server - Which tool to use for database (mssql) performance test? Write custom tool + profiler or Jmeter.