Code Analysis with NDepend
When our projects reach a certain size it is very hard to determine the complexity of our code. It gets harder and harder to see the overall picture. It also becomes very easy to introduce unnecessary complexity to parts of […]
Find Stored Procedure by Name
There are several ways to find a stored procedure in the server by name: we can query sys.procedures, syscomments, or information_scema.routines. Respective examples would be: or or
The Story of the Modern Day Developer
Software Developer, a “Programmer” even an “Engineer” or a “Craftsman“, although there are substantial differences between these according to some people, when we say any of them we mean one thing….an organism that transforms coffee into code 🙂 so I […]
Sql Server: datetime vs datetime2 recap
The MSDN documentation for datetime recommends using datetime2. datetime2 has larger date range, a larger default fractional precision, and optional user-specified precision. Also depending on the user-specified precision it may use less storage. Furthermore, datetime2 has a date range of […]
Get all stored procedures related to a table
To get all stored procedures related to a table: Option 1: SELECT DISTINCT so.name FROM syscomments sc INNER JOIN sysobjects so ON sc.id=so.id WHERE sc.TEXT LIKE ‘%tablename%’ Option2: SELECT DISTINCT o.name, o.xtype FROM syscomments c INNER JOIN sysobjects o ON […]
Sql Server: Delete duplicate rows with CTE
Here’s a code snippet to remove duplicate rows in a table: WITH CTE (Column1, Column2, DuplicateCount) AS ( SELECT Column1,Column2, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Column1,Column2 ORDER BY Column1) AS DuplicateCount FROM TheTable ) DELETE FROM CTE WHERE DuplicateCount > 1 GO […]
Filtering duplicates out of an IEnumerable
Problem: Filtering out(removing duplicates) from an IEnumerable One possible solution with using linq would be to group by key and take the first element of each group. Here’s an example: enumerable.GroupBy(x => x.key).Select(g => g.First())
Sql Server: Get all tables containing column with a specified name
A little helper query I came accross, very useful if you want to find all the tables that contain a specific column: SELECT c.name AS ColName, t.name AS TableName FROM sys.columns c JOIN sys.tables t ON c.object_id = t.object_id WHERE […]
Test Driven Development
It is pretty hard writing an article on something that so many super cool authors have written books about. But, as I said it is my own experience learning and embracing TDD that I want to share here so that […]
The S.O.L.I.D. Principles
There have been many questions I encountered lately of what are the best practices / guidances that you can take up on when designing an application. Wheather that’s an ASP.NET application or any other type of application that uses object oriented […]
