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Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect. While focused primarily on the .NET and SQL Server worlds, Dennis frequently ventures outside of this comfort zone into game development, Linux development, and image processing. He has been published in several industry magazines, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and has been interviewed by NPR.

He is a vice president and lead software architect at an innovative New York City hedge fund back-office services firm.

Dennis has been working on solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and power generation markets for over 13 years.


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Wednesday, November 16 2005
SQL Server 2005 Management Studio and Solutions

One of the overlooked, but incredibly usable, benefits of SQL Server 2005's Management Studio over Query Analyzer are projects and solutions.

Not only is it great to be able to gather common scripts together into "projects" (e.g. "Server Maintenance"), and projects into solutions (e.g. "Insurance Administration Database"), but even better is the tight integration of source control into Management Studio - now you can actually have properly source controlled script repositories, even including common connections, with automatic change management. This will be an administrative and workflow panacea for a lot of teams, and will greatly improve script re-use.

Very nice.

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