Mike Dimmick questions

Mike Dimmick answers

• Calling base.Dispose() automatically from derived classes
• What does "%%DatabaseEx" do in TSQL?
• Troubleshooting Timeout SqlExceptions
• Understanding how Ada serializes a record
• Optimising C++ 2-D arrays
• Disadvantage of setting Form.KeyPreview = true?
• What might cause the big overhead of making a HttpWebRequest call?
• How to do a SQL NOT NULL with a DateTime?
• c# STILL returning wrong number of cores
• Locking to handle concurrency-- a good idea? [closed]