LINQ – What is its Place? The concept of making LINQ work natively in SQL Server has certainly resulted in a great response from our readers. I have so many responses it would take up three or four whole newsletters. People tend to fall in one or more camps when it comes to the idea of enabling LINQ to work […]
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Is LINQ the New SQL More Readers Respond
Is LINQ the New SQL – More Readers Respond It seems this topic has drawn the interest of many. Here are more responses from our readers. Mahabubur: It’s a wonderful idea you expressed here. I am a software engineer and like T-SQL thus love to write LINQ to SQL. However , always i have to heard that LINQ is very […]
My Experience of Web Standards
(Jeni Tennison) One of the things that’s been niggling at the back of my mind since the schema.org announcement is how small a role search engine results plays in the wider data sharing efforts that I’m more familiar with in my work on legislation.gov.uk, and more generally how my day job experience
Oracle Fusion Applications 11G: The new ERP era begins!
(Yury) For all of you who haven’t yet noticed, Oracle Fusion Applications 11G is now available! You can get the installation from the Oracle E-Delivery site in no time.
SQL Server: Calculate Summary and Column Summary
(Madhivanan) This post shows how to show a summary of similar rows as well as column summary for SQL Server table data. Suppose you want to generate the total of a column and display it at the end of the result set.
Shortening Load Times in SQL Server DWs
(Mark Kromer) We all know that data warehouses aren’t “real time”, right? I mean, a warehouse is there to store data for historical analysis, after all. But the struggle to separate operational reporting against an ODS or a reporting schema from BI reporting against a data warehouse continues to con
Clojure: Creating XML document with namespaces
(Mark Needham) As I mentioned in an earlier post we’ve been parsing XML documents with the Clojure zip-filter API and the next thing we needed to do was create a new XML document containing elements which needed to be inside a namespace.
Creating Design Data for XAML using a dynamics wrapped in a static class with a fluid interface.
Having design data while designing a user interface in Visual Studio or Blend is great. Designing multi-level ItemTemplates without design time data is like trying to paint in the dark.
Box Selection in Visual Studio 2010
(Jalpesh) Every day I am discovering something new with Visual Studio 2010 and In this post I am again going to explain you new interesting feature of Visual Studio 2010. We all required to modify the code in bulk some time and there is a new features for Visual Studio 2010 which enables to made cha
Combining Consoles and Forms
(Jim Mischel) The vast majority of applications I write are console applications. Not because I have a thing for console apps, mind you, but because most of my applications don’t need a GUI. I do, from time to time, have to create GUI applications.