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Monday, November 03, 2008 4:55 PM

And the winner is… LINQ to Entities and the ADO.NET Entity Framework

In 2001 we first demonstrated Object Relational Mapping (ORM) technology for .NET – ObjectSpaces . However it has taken 6+ years to get to the point where we have released an ORM. Actually we released two. The release of Visual Studio 2008 in November
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Friday, August 08, 2008 9:29 AM

LINQ Overview concept map #2

Just started the day with a swift play with my original concept map .
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:46 AM

Microsoft Sync Framework released

Ok – I will be honest, I forgot it hadn’t actually released (It is tough keeping on top of the staggered releases we have at the moment!) This is a shameful cut and paste from http://blogs.msdn.com/sync/archive/2008/08/06/top-new-features-in-sync-services-for-ado-net-v2.aspx
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 5:09 PM

PHP driver for SQL Server 2005 Released

Whoops – I nearly missed this one. I previously mentioned our more friendly approach to PHP back in Nov 2007.The good news is we have made version 1.0 of the PHP driver available for download .  We have also posted the source code for our driver
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Monday, June 30, 2008 4:14 PM

Still confused by Data Mining? (I know I am)

Which is why I thought I would point you at this great video resource. You may well get to use it before I do (I think I have my hands full learning to code again - but I have started to skim them). These sessions were presented to 20 Countries across
Posted by Eric Nelson | 2 Comments
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:17 PM

Benchmarking is just a lot easier these days...

When I first joined Microsoft in 1996 I was lucky enough to work with Compaq to create a SQL Server scalability lab for ISVs. I learnt a lot about both SQL Server and how to run scalability exercises that year. I also learnt that in such exercises you
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:26 AM

10% off developer training until end of Jan

Back in November I blogged about a training offer my US colleagues had struck with Total Training. Our good friends at InnerWorkings contacted me to share some more good news - 10% off their training courses until end of Jan. A couple of my colleagues
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:59 AM

A subtle change - we like PHP :-)

When I started working with UK developers many years back, one of my focus areas was ASP vs PHP. 10 years on from those days and both technologies are very successful with huge fans of each technology (ASP becoming the much more powerful ASP.NET). But
Posted by Eric Nelson | 3 Comments
Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:02 PM

25% off developer training

My colleagues in the US have struck up a deal with Total Training where we can offer a discount of 25% off a year’s training subscription on MS developer products. The series range from 4 hours to 8 hours and are project oriented - they cover SQL
Posted by Eric Nelson | 2 Comments
Monday, July 23, 2007 12:12 AM

UK ISV delivers MDX Query Builder control

A month or so back I was lucky enough to find myself in a SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence lab with Andrew Wiles of IT Workplace ( http://www.it-workplace.com ). Andrew was working on their new MDX control which they have now released as a product
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 11:54 AM

SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Lab and getting an image to take away

Tuesday and Wednesday of this week we are working with a number of UK ISVs around the broad topic of BI - spanning Integration Services to Data Mining. Most of the ISVs have been using their own machines but a couple have been using a MS internal VPC
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:47 PM

SQL Server Katmai Datasheet Available

Curious about what will be in Katmai? Then check out the two page overview .
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:35 AM

Multi-tenancy and row level security in SQL Server 2005

When looking at architecting for on-demand, the subject of single tenancy vs multi tenancy always comes up. When looking at multi tenancy, the subject of row level security often follows. Why? Well - multi tenancy at its extreme means all the tenants
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Monday, March 12, 2007 10:30 AM

Options for a distributed application across many geographies

This scenario is simple and relatively frequent. A solution that is normally deployed into a single site with a single central database, now needs to be accessed from many sites in many geographies over some kind of WAN or perhaps even public Internet.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:47 PM

Inside MySpace.com (a SAAS application built on Windows)

A colleague pointed me at this great article which talks about how the architecture of MySpace evolved as the site became more successful. The site started out initially as a Perl/Apache/MySQL prototype, moved to SQL Server for live (2 Web servers and
Posted by Eric Nelson | 2 Comments
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