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Category Archive for 'SQL Server'

An annoying issue which came across twice this week: Sitecore was throwing “Specified cast is not valid”-Exceptions:

And seriously, if there’s one thing I hate about .NET in general, it are exceptions. 95% of the time they are non self explaining and sometimes even nonsense. This exception would normally take me 20 minutes to solve at least. But [...]

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I’ve reinstalled my machine of last night with Windows 7. I’m very happy with this new platform! Thank you Microsoft. One of the final reasons to start yesterday was that my database integration in Visual Studio was broken. Of course there where many more reasons, but that was the issue which made me do it [...]

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One of the most important things on being a Sitecore Solution Architect is being ahead of the latest technology. Therefore I’ve installed the latest bits of SQL Server 2008 Express CTP February. And as always you’ll run into strange issues with beta products. First I tried upgrading from SQL Server 2005, but [...]

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So what’s Business Intelligence(BI)? You can hear the term everywhere. Even your local salesmen does talk about is. And about datamining, integration services, SQL Server 2005 BI, etc, etc? Then it becomes time to do some research(I suppose all developer should ). Particularly when you are going to use MOSS, build and intranet or [...]

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