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I am in an ongoing debate with my technical managers regarding accessing lookup tables and he keeps waving the "best practices" mantra at me but offers nothing concrete, I have several lookup tables ...

Embarrassing confession time: I never learned my multiplication tables in grade school. Sure, I had the easy tables like the twos and the fives down, but if asked what 4 x 7 or 8 x 6 was, I’d draw a ...

If you decide on using an Enum with enumerated values in your Entity Framework class, here are the tools you'll need to make it work. But an enumerated value shouldn't be your first choice. Enumerated ...

Naïve approaches to business intelligence will occasionally trap designers as they juggle operational data stores and data warehouses. The trap results from an honest endeavor to simplify designs and ...

What’s the state abbreviation for Arkansas? Is it AR? AK? AS? Maybe you’ve got a data frame with the information. Or any info where there’s one column with categories, and another column with values.

I have a .net project using SQL Server backend that I'm looking at localising. Handling localisation within .net is straightforward enough, got it managing the views, data annotations, messages etc.