Self Hosting Web Service in Dot Net This capability has been around since the release of Dot Net 4.0, so for quite some time. But, I am just now getting around to experiencing it, and figured I’d write a quick little blurb on the product. What makes a self hosting web service different? It runs as its own Windows service, […]

Java vs. Dot Net – Wrong Question I really dislike the threads that ask which is better. For example, which is better, Visual Basic.net or C#. There is not real answer. Now I find I have done the very thing I dislike asking which is Mas Macho…Dot Net or Java. Anthony writes in bringing the question down to earth. Anthony […]

Que es Mas Macho, Java or Dot Net? Ok, now I’m fishing, and stealing a line from a Saturday Night Live comic skit about which is the strongest (Que es Mas Macho). When it comes to Java and Dot Net they have many similarities, strengths and differences. Today I’m looking at the few obvious ones. Both systems utilize a run […]

Keeping Current I can’t remember another time in history when the direction of future programming tools and platforms was more volatile and unsure. The options are rich and powerful. The question is which ones will continue to be used in future platforms. The timing is not going to be short, like 2 or three years. And even when times begin […]

Is JAVA Relevant Anymore? I ask this question not because I am trying to surf for responses. I’m actually more interested if JAVA is relevant to our readers. There are so many tools and languages it is difficult to keep on top of them. I find I more often than not miss on a great new library or framework simply […]

Let’s Put a Fork in It and Call It Done This is a culinary phrase in the USA used to declare a dish as cooked and ready for eating. It is used euphemistically as well to say that a project is completed. Perhaps that is the case with Java? In December 2012 Monty Widenius created a fork of MySQL called […]

BCP Alternatives With just about anything in SQL Server there are often multiple ways to accomplish the same thing. Maurice, a regular contributor to our discussions, reminds us that there are SQL Server techniques built into TSQL taking advantage of the BCP Engine capability, and the limited logging of those transactions. Maurice: An alternative to BCP, in your scenario, would […]

BCP – Still a Great Utility Sybase shipped BCP decades ago as a command line tool to import and extract data from SQL Server. This tool continues to live on even in Microsoft SQL Server, and still is a convenient tool in many scenarios. BCP as it was originally designed could extract data from tables and/or views into a file. […]

No Properties Please Let me step lightly into a little controversy regarding properties. The object oriented purist would decry the use of properties as a violation of encapsulation. Properties of an object are required for use by the object, and in most cases are not public. One book I have been reading on object oriented principles and patterns demonstrates this […]

SQL Error Trapping I have been doing some further digging on the ERROR_STATE() function for SQL Server and have found that the State global variable is managed by the SQL Engine, not the user. This allows SQL Engineers to track different SQL Server Engine subroutines causing an error with the same ERROR_NUMBER(). So, if search for help on an error […]