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Here's an interesting article on optimizing queries using Top statement to filter result sets: Why SQL Top may slow down your query? The solutions are the following: 1. using Hash joins SELECT TOP 5 [Articles].Id ,CountryCategories.Name ,CityCategories.Name FROM [Articles] INNER HASH JOIN CategoryCountry2Articles ON [Articles].Id = CategoryCountry2Articles.IdArticle INNER HASH JOIN CountryCategories ON CountryCategories.Id = CategoryCountry2Articles.IdCountry INNER HASH JOIN CategoryCity2Articles ON [Articles].Id = CategoryCity2Articles.IdArticle INNER HASH JOIN CityCategories ON CityCategories.Id = CategoryCity2Articles.IdCity WHERE CountryCategories.Name = 'country1' AND CityCategories.Name = 'city4' 2. Using Variables. DECLARE @topCount INT SET @topCount = 5 SELECT TOP (@topCount) (...) I am pretty much interested why using variables is much faster. Compared with other findings

Here's a modified version of Nick Harrison's IOrderedQueryable extension method in his dynamic linq query post: static class IQueryableExtensions { public static IOrderedQueryable<TSource> GenericEvaluateOrderBy<TSource>( this IQueryable<TSource> query, string propertyName) { var type = typeof (TSource); var property = type.GetProperty(propertyName); var parameter = Expression.Parameter(type, "p" ); var propertyReference = Expression.Property(parameter, property); //p.ProductName var sortExpression = Expression.Call( typeof (Queryable), "OrderBy" , new Type[] { type, property.PropertyType }, query.Expression, Expression.Quote(Expression.Lambda(Expression.MakeMemberAccess(parameter, property), parameter))); return query.Provider.CreateQuery<TSource>(sortExpression) as IOrderedQueryable<TSource&g

In a situation where i want to format this date value from (Tuesday 19th March 2013) to (19 March 2013). I made a regular expression by applying look behind approach and ends with behavior in strings. Here's the expression: indicatorDate = Regex.Replace(indicatorDate, @"(\b[A-Za-z]*day\b)|((?<=[0-9])[a-zA-z]{2})" , string .Empty, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase); :)

Here are some simple T-SQL statements to show table information with set of criterias. -- show tables sort by name ascending use DatabaseName go select * from sys.tables order by sys.tables.name asc go -- show tables that starts with s use DatabaseName go select * from sys.tables where upper (sys.tables.name) like 'S%' ; go -- show tables sort by date created descending use DatabaseName go select * from sys.tables order by create_date desc ; go -- show tables where type description is user use DatabaseName go select * from sys.tables where type_desc like lower ( '%user%' ) go Reference: BOL

Out of boredom, I came upon a class named CustomPagination in MVCContrib that that implements IPagination , IEnumerable and other interfaces that you can customize your paging needs.Here's the class definition: namespace MvcContrib.Pagination { public class CustomPagination <T> : IPagination<T>, IPagination, IEnumerable<T>, IEnumerable { public CustomPagination(IEnumerable<T> dataSource, int pageNumber, int pageSize, int totalItems); public int FirstItem { get ; } public bool HasNextPage { get ; } public bool HasPreviousPage { get ; } public int LastItem { get ; } public int PageNumber { get ; } public int PageSize { get ; } public int TotalItems { get ; } public int TotalPages { get ; } public IEnumerator<T> GetEnumerator(); } } I found an article in this blog( http://lsd.luminis.eu ) on how to use the CustomPagination class that r

Hello! Assuming in your MS Excel Worksheet you have thousands of cells that contains url and you want them to be a hyperlink. It can be done manually, but tedious. Another solution is to write a VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) Script to do that for you using the Sub procedure below that will convert an Excel cell content to hyperlink. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Sub ChangeCellsToHyperlinks() Dim rng As Range Dim ctr As Integer Dim range_name As String ctr = 2 'starting cell to change Do While ctr <= 10000 'end cell range Set rng = ActiveSheet.Range( "A" & ctr) rng.Parent.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=rng, Address:=rng With rng.Font .ColorIndex = 25 .Underline = xlUnderlineStyleSingle End With ctr = ctr + 1 Loop End Sub That's it!

When I applied a new template to blogger, the category label count disappears. So, I searched google and found this site on blogger tricks that shows how to customize labels. http://dummies.bloggertipsandtricks.com/ So, I applied it in the expression expr:href='data:label.url'. <a expr:href= 'data:label.url' ><data:label.name/></a> Then, I applied the trick to show the label count. <a expr:href= 'data:label.url' ><data:label.name/></a> <span dir= 'ltr' >(<data:label.count/>)</span> Cheers!

Assuming you have a connection string that points to an Entity Framework object. And in your connection class, you pass the connection string to the Entity Framework constructor below: customerEntity = new Database1Entities(_connectionString); You encountered an error Keyword not supported: "data source". The solution is presented here: Keyword not supported data source initializing entity framework context It suggests to replace the &quot word with single quote (') character. So, in this case, I used Regex to perform replace operation. return Regex.Replace(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[key].ToString(), @"&quot" , "'" , RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);