I’ve written about transactions, the TransactionScope in .NET before. System.Transactions : An introduction System.Transactions : Unit Testing System.Transactions : Promotable Enlistment System.Transactions still not working System.Transactions : Read Uncommitted System.Transactions : What to choose...
The Windows Azure and SQL Data Services team have been busy. Workflow was removed from .NET Services until they can support Workflow 4 and Access Control and the Service Bus got minor updates. Read more about it here . The SQL Data Services team has unfortunately not released anything yet, but they did...
After a lot of CTP versions the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR RTM version has been released. The most important feature for me is the full support for SQL Server 2008. Use the database project to setup, generate, refactor, test, version, build and deploy your SQL Server 2008 database...
Wouldn't you like to be able to use the Query Analyzer again? I couldn't count the number of times people have asked for the query analyzer during SQL Server sessions at conferences or at classes. Unfortunately, it doesn't exist anymore. Or at least not for public use! If you've been...
The weekend-after has passed and I've slept through most of it. Man did we use up some hours (some nights we went on with the training until 23:00 hours) and especially the last night when we drank past the bar its closing hours and went on in a local pub in Domburg! But of course it wasn't about...
UPDATE : It seems the SQL team actually have build a solution . A while ago I wrote some articles on System.Transactions and the fact that it's almost impossible to use the Lightweight Transaction Manager (LTM) and not get bumped up to a distributed transaction and use MSDTC. When you look at the...
At MIX07 new stuff was announced , at TechEd 2007 in Orlando names of products have been announced. Visual Studio 2008 "Orcas" has been renamed to Visual Studio 2008. It's a bit strange so few people have yet to blog about it, the only real reference I could find was at Darryl Burling 's...