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There’s an article up at eweek about Oslo , the new initiative by Microsoft in create the tools and a language that’s more accessible to more people than just official developers. You’re supposed to create data and models to build an application, something where the business analyst can already do a...
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Download code & sql scripts here I got a question today about setting the isolationlevel on a transaction to ReadUncommitted. The question was why the transaction still locked the row it was updating, when isolationlevel is set to ReadUncommitted. It was expected that using ReadUncommitted on the...
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Via Steve Eichert I came across an article about database security . It's based on security flaws that have been reported over the years by external security researchers. Only flaws affecting the database servers itself have been considered, so Oracle Application Server has not been included for example...
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Download source in attachment at the bottom. A while ago I heard the term “copy constructor” for the first time from a C++ developer. A copy constructor is a constructor which takes a (single) parameter of an existing object of the same type as the constructor’s class. It’s used to create an deep copy...
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My colleague Anko Duizer has created a rather extensive list of do's and dont's about SQL-Server. There are some tips in there that are incredibly important, and perhaps he can illuminate some of those in the future. Like why you should avoid the use of GUIDs, you must not prefix stored procedures with...
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This could not have arrived at a better time! I just heard from Marc van de Wert that Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.2 was just released. The good news is, that it can run on the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005, where the previous version ran (or actually still runs) only on VS2005 Beta 2. At my...
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When reading the latest posts about XP == DATT by Paul Gielens, I noticed him mentioning UML as Sketch . And suddenly this new Visio 12 feature was in my mind, that I had just recently blogged about . As Fowler says it, you can draw your sketches on a white board, but also in a light weight drawing tool...
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Alex Thissen gives a summary on his weblog from what he has heard at the SQL Pass 2005 conference about SQL Server Express (SSE). First and foremost, SSE will be free! Comparing it to MSDE2000, that version had a limit of 10 connections, where SSE will be able to share more, although Alex doesn't tell...
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Waiting all day long and finally it's released , the enterprise library. On the main page is a link, but the page cannot be found. But you can grab it anyhow, right here .
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”Barring any major catastrophes, it is official. On January 28th Enterprise Library will be up and available on MSDN. Spread the word… download the code, give us feedback, join the GotDotNet workspace . Tell your mom, it could change her life” Matt Joe en Dennis Mulder (Avanade) will...
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Ofcourse we have all read about the Provider Model ( part 1 , part 2 ), which Microsoft claims is their invention. Ryan Whitaker has made a post in which he explains you should not use it when you don't need it, although it looks very cool. Which it does, as it seems, as with everything Microsoft overhypes...