A few months ago I am finishing up my article on System.Transactions [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/02/DataPoints/] for MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag] at about 3am, decide to hit the sack and review the article one last time before I submit it the next day (the due d

I’ve been pretty absent from the blogging scene of late. Life can throw you many twists and turns and many of them are when they are least convenient or least expected. My family has had one of these thrown at us recently and I am thankful for God and my family for being here for me and for each oth

I’ve been getting my slides and code samples together over the past few weeks for the upcoming conferences. The next one I’ll be at is at the end of this month in Boston at VSLive [http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/vslive/2005/bo/] talking about transactions. The session is titled Lightweight Pr

As I mentioned in a post [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/john.papa/archive/2005/08/02/130144.aspx] a few weeks back, I will be presenting a few topics at VSLive Orlando [http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/vslive/2005/or/]. This past week I was sprucing up my code samples with the latest VS.NET 200

<FONT size=2><SPAN class=843211217-19072005>I was asked a good question the other day regarding why I chose to use "IF NOT EXISTS" in my Nov 2003 MSDN article on User Defined Functions [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/11/DataPoints/] to check to see if a declared ta