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I have been working on a new web application and recently ran into an interesting situation where I wanted to add possibly hundreds of records from one data entry screen. In the past I have done this a few different ways:

Loop through set of data and add each row one by one. Create some delimited string and create some SQL to parse it into a temp table.  Both of those methods work but have serious drawbacks. Method one is very easy to program but all those insert statements cause a lot of traffic to and from the database, this can cause a lot of scaling issues. Method two works if you are only inserting one value at a time and that value is not complex like lots of text or image byte arrays. A much easier method of doing this would be to create a table fill it with data and simply use a insert statement to select all records from the table into our datatable. Now with SQL 2008 we can pass Table Valued Parameters (TVP) to a stored procedure and use it just like any other table in the...

One would think that by now, articles on this subject would be common but yet again and again I get asked, 'Can you build a Flash site for me?'. I still see sites that are a) built in flash and / or b) have image-heavy design, which is super irritating. Not to point fingers, but I've found that the most these sites tend to be for design agencies (showing off their skills) and for some reason bars and restaurants. There are millions of reasons why sites built in flash or image heavy are bad, here are my top 7.

Top 7 Reasons to build a text-based site

20% of the users disable Flash plug-ins, these movies takes forever to download (and so does the plug-in that plays it). Users are more-and-more moving towards mobile devices to visit website (the iPhone cannot read flash - and most likely never will) Many large corporations block installing flash on browsers. Journalists and members of the trade cannot easily copy information about your business if it's image-based or in flash,...