Looking for a good time? Join Falafel Software, Inc. at Microsoft Tech•Ed North America 2008 during the IT Professionals Conference June 10–13, booth #308.
We will showcase ActiveFocus, a web-based project management and team collaboration tool enabling teams to quickly share information, track progress, and deliver projects on time. Group and one-on-one demos will be available.
We'll be giving away three Zune® media players and a complete Xbox 360™ gaming system including Rock Band™. Rock Band will be set up at the booth and available for your enjoyment!
Microsoft Tech•Ed North America 2008 IT Professionals is the Microsoft premier technical education conference for IT professionals.
Falafel Software is proud to be a Bronze Sponsor of this prestigious event.

Falafel Software today released its new TestCompleteTV.com web site, a subscription based video library to train on the award winning Automated QA tool, TESTCOMPLETE.  We are all very excited about the site and the possibilities it brings to our loyal customers worldwide.

Subscriptions vary from $39 for 3 months, to $99 for the whole year or $299 for lifetime membership.
Falafel intends to produce between 200 to 250 videos by the end of 2008.
We encourage all members in the community to send us their feedback and their wish list on what videos we should produce first.

TelerikTV.com was released this week as a show site for case studies involving Telerik technologies.  Falafel Software is very pleased to have its flag ship product, ActiveFocus, be the first product showcased on the site.  I was interviewed by my friend Cark Franklin, co founder of the very successful .NET Rocks! Internet audio talk show for .NET Developers, for an hour, we discussed the elegance and power of the Telerik radControls and dived into source code to demonstrate the architecture and implementation of these amazing components.

Go view the video today and let us know what you think! :)

This is actually right in the SQL Server Books Online, but not easily found. Given a temp table named #temp:

if ( object_id( 'tempdb..#temp' ) is null )
    -- table doesn't exist
else
    -- table exists

Here is an interesting article on a way to turn many looping row-based operations into set-based ones: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/TSQL/62867/

I think the idea is a clever one, and I love the "Row By Agonizing Row" (RBAR) acronym!