Data Access blog
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We're putting this blog (Data Access blog) into suspended animation. That doesn't mean we will stop...
Date: 07/11/2006
Steve Lasker has posted a screencast / video over on Channel 9 providing an overview on the various...
Date: 07/07/2006
Database Journal has a good list of some upcoming SQL Server related live webcasts scheduled for...
Date: 06/28/2006
Since announcing our ADO.NET vNext plans at TechEd last week, the team has been on the lookout for...
Date: 06/24/2006
Hi - I'm Shyam Pather, Development Lead on the ADO.NET vNext team. I’m incredibly excited to share...
Date: 06/21/2006
Once you are done with shipping large products such as SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 you’d...
Date: 06/20/2006
Here's a small issue you may need to watch out for when using a System.Transactions transaction with...
Date: 04/14/2006
Register to watch this: MSDN Webcast: Data Access with Visual Basic 2005 (Level 200) Start Time:...
Date: 04/12/2006
We love customers like David Hayden! David has been spending time at the MSDN Forums (in particular...
Date: 03/29/2006
I managed to squeeze in enough time to implement nesting options for the DbConnectionScope class. My...
Date: 03/29/2006
Julia Lerman over at DevSource posted this quick article: "Someone asked me about ADO.NET indexing...
Date: 03/17/2006
Brian Beckman is a Software Architect in the Data Programmability team here at Microsoft. His latest...
Date: 03/16/2006
A new worldwide contest for developers has been launched by the folks at Visual Studio Express and...
Date: 03/14/2006
In November 2003 MSDN Online published a popular six-part series on using data structures in the...
Date: 03/13/2006
Channel 9 has posted great video interview with Jim Gray, a researcher and manager of Microsoft...
Date: 03/09/2006
A new article published at Developer.com is worth checking out: Ten of the Biggest Mistakes...
Date: 03/06/2006
Jesse Liberty has written up a good article showing how to bind data into ASP.NET control over at...
Date: 03/04/2006
Over at .Net Rocks!, Regional Director Barry Gervin introduces LINQ, a nascent set of language...
Date: 02/17/2006
I’ve heard a few comments from people who would like an easier way to manage connection lifetime...
Date: 02/14/2006
Carl Perry, a Program Manager from our ADO.Net team has blogged about how to use and extend the new...
Date: 02/12/2006
The .NET Rocks! Show had Shawn Wilderman as their guest last week. Shawn is the Microsoft C# MVP who...
Date: 01/29/2006
Mark Scurrell, Program Manager on the WinFS Sync team has provided an overview on the WinFS blog of...
Date: 01/27/2006
In SQL Server 2005, we now have the ability to write managed (or CLR) code inside a Stored...
Date: 01/25/2006
After two betas and 6 months of customer feedback the SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver is generally...
Date: 01/23/2006
First of all I’ll have to apologize because it took me several months to put this code out here....
Date: 01/09/2006
In SqlClient Managed Provider, there has always existed (right from ADO.Net 1.0 days) a keyword in...
Date: 10/28/2005
As mentioned in my previous blog, SqlDependency is a new feature in .Net framework 2.0, which...
Date: 09/27/2005
The Native XML Web Services (SOAP) being a new feature in SQL 2005, I like to provide a brief...
Date: 08/30/2005
Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) is a cool new feature in SQL Server 2005 which allows you to...
Date: 08/29/2005
I often receive questions inquiring about the (channel) encryption capabilities in SQL Server 2005....
Date: 08/05/2005
As stated in my previous post, the majority of new features available through SQL Native Client are...
Date: 08/02/2005
As Acey Bunch explained in April, SQL Native Client meets the needs of developers wanting to take...
Date: 07/29/2005
Share your story of migrating from Oracle to SQL Server, and the ultimate chopper might just migrate...
Date: 07/01/2005
I’d like to briefly talk about some of the work we have done in ADO.NET 2.0, for improvement of...
Date: 06/09/2005
How many of you are coming to TechEd 2005 in Orlando? A show of hands, please. Excellent! The...
Date: 06/03/2005
We have shipped MDAC 2.8 sp1. This is the version of MDAC that originally shipped with Windows XP...
Date: 05/19/2005
I’ve gotten this same question several times in the last few weeks, so I thought it would be a good...
Date: 05/19/2005
By now you may have heard of a new data access technology called “SQL Native Client” that will ship...
Date: 04/26/2005
At long last we’ve completed and signed-off on Whidbey Beta 2!!!!! It’s been quite a long time since...
Date: 04/19/2005
We’ve been seeing several comments on email and blogs lately about changes in the APIs between CTP...
Date: 04/05/2005
We had got good amount of feedback from developers in 1.0 and 1.1 versions for need to have a...
Date: 03/30/2005
Many of us would like to have a space to write about the stuff we do, publish open issues for...
Date: 03/22/2005
Welcome to the DataWorks team blog. If you’re a regular on our MSDN site...
Date: 03/20/2005