How to become an MVP?

I receive quite often this question. Now someone answered it really well: Goals, obsessions, and aspirations: becoming an MVP

Fill code-field without typing complete value

A little trick for all codefields on which there is a tablerelation to a table (Customer No., Vendor No., Items No.,…).
You can always use F6 to select the value you want but there is a shortcut:
For example: you have all your customers coded by “C000001″..”C999999″ and you know the code of the customer (e.g. “C000013″, […]

Stand-By on Windows 2008 Server

Why would someone want to use the Stand-By function on Windows 2008 Server?
You even have to search for it (With Start =>  …) you don’t find it! You need taskmanager (or ProcessExplorer to be able to use the Stand-By function on Windows 2008 server.
Ok, but why use the Stand-by functions. I know it sounds quite […]

SELECT … OPTION (OPTIMIZE FOR UNKNOWN)

I just wrote a new how-to how to work with record-variables and the responses made me test some things.
While testing the SQL-statements between GET,FINDFIRST, FIND(’=’) I noticed something VERY interesting!
In the OPTION of the select, I noticed (OPTIMIZE FOR UNKNOWN)!
Maybe you are asking why I am so exited about it?
Remember the problem with SQL2005 selecting […]

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