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Friday, February 23, 2007 7:06 PM

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Have you heard about extension methods yet? If you have then you probably know exactly what the title of this blog means. I can see this becoming one of the most asked about exceptions in the coming release. At least until the dust settles. <Edit>
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Monday, January 29, 2007 9:45 AM

Blogging about link Extensions

_uacct = "UA-1265582-1"; urchinTracker(); There are not a lot of guidelines about blogging, the one that I like to adhere to is that I only blog about bits that you can go and play with. This ends up creating gaps in my blogging history as I move to new
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:57 PM

JDBC V1.1 Distributed Transactions with Read Committed and Snapshot isolation.

One of the biggest changes you may not have noticed in the v1.1 2005 JDBC driver is that we have changed the default isolation level for Distributed Transactions from Serializable to Read Committed. This is in line with other JDBC drivers like our 2000
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 1:43 PM

JDBC Snapshot isolation level

I have gotten some questions about using Sql Server 2005 with the 2005 JDBC driver. There are unfortunately a lot of misconceptions in this area. Here are some notes to make this a little bit easier to understand. The first thing you need to understand
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 5:51 PM

JDBC 2005 v1.1 is now available.

The v1.1 2005 JDBC driver is now available for download here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/jdbc/ This is a release I am personally really proud of, and we could not have done it without you! Maybe it’s the fact that not that many people in the company
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Monday, June 26, 2006 12:03 PM

JDBC June 2006 Community Tech Preview available.

Announcing the June 2006 Community Tech Preview of the JDBC 2005 driver: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f914793a-6fb4-475f-9537-b8fcb776befd&displaylang=en This preview contains all the changes of CTP 1 including Integrated
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Thursday, April 20, 2006 4:35 PM

JDBC v1.1 CTP and the Product Feedback Center

When you get down to it Customer feedback is what makes a project like this interesting and worthwhile. This is the first project I have worked in where the Product Feedback Center has made such an important difference and a BIG thank you to those of
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Friday, April 14, 2006 4:22 PM

JDBC v1.1 CTP Using Type 2 Integrated Security

To use the Type 2 Integrated Security feature with the v1.1 CTP (if you don't have this already make sure to get it! see my previous blog) you only need to make sure that the Windows authentication DLL is visible to the application that is going to use
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Friday, April 14, 2006 4:00 PM

JDBC V1.1 CTP Available

I am proud to say that the first community preview release of the SQL Server 2005 JDBC v1.1 driver is now available. This build includes Type-2 integrated authentication for Windows XP and Windows 2003 clients (windows 2000 client support to come in the
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Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:35 PM

JDBC 2005 beta 2 getting started with SQLEXPRESS

Sql Express is going to be a good match for the Sql Server 2005 JDBC provider, it is free, it is relatively easy to set up and deploy and it has all the power of Sql Server 2005 for low end applications. There are a few things to keep in mind when using
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Friday, September 30, 2005 5:11 PM

JDBC Beta 2 connection string properties

As you have probably seen by now we have shipped beta 2 of the Sql Server 2005 JDBC driver. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2005/jdbc.mspx We have put a lot of work into this beta and it is with some trepidation that I see it go out the door. We
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Monday, August 01, 2005 10:24 PM

JDBC getting started with the 2005 JDBC driver for Sql Server 2000 and Sql server 2005

If you had told me a year ago that I would be working on a JDBC driver I would have honestly thought you were kidding. If you had suggested a ship date concurrent with Sql Server 2005 (within a reasonable window) I would have laughed out loud. This is
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Friday, July 01, 2005 11:30 AM

JDBC the new member of the DataWorks family, Sql Server 2005 JDBC Driver (beta 1)

One of the hardest things for me this last few months was to go into “radio silence” over the project I am currently working on. Now that we have officially shipped a beta I can come back to blogging, albeit from a slightly different angle. Microsoft
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Monday, March 21, 2005 12:44 PM

Say hello to the DataWorks blog

It is a fair assumption that you have not heard about DataWorks, that is ok most folks arround Microsoft haven't either. MDAC on the other hand probably sounds familiar... DataWorks is the Microsoft Product Unit in which I work, it is responsable for
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Saturday, February 12, 2005 12:59 AM

ADO.NET 2.0 and System.Transactions, downlevel functions and nested scopes

As with most of my blog posts this started as a customer question, the core of the problem was that he was not sure how he was expected to use TransactionScopes in methods that call other methods or "downlevel" functions as he named them. There are two
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