ESE/ESENT Database Stuff
There is a new release of ManagedEsent on Codeplex. There are some new APIs, bugfixes and...
Date: 02/15/2011
Multivalued columns can be very useful for simplifying data schema and improving performance, but...
Date: 06/03/2010
Cameron Taggart has a blog entry on using ManagedEsent from F#:...
Date: 03/02/2010
There is a new release of ManagedEsent on Codeplex. There are some new APIs, constants for the new...
Date: 09/12/2009
A quick look at some of the new features that are available in the Windows 7 version of ESENT....
Date: 08/18/2009
(Continuing from the post on implementing the Visitor pattern in C# 4.0) A virtual method is...
Date: 08/13/2009
A lot of the talk around the new dynamic keyword in C# 4.0 (available in the beta of Visual Studio...
Date: 05/28/2009
Microsoft has released Kobe, "a getting started resource kit for planning, architecting, and...
Date: 04/17/2009
(I saw a link to this from the Wikipedia entry on esent) A company called iiobo has released a C++...
Date: 04/06/2009
Version 1.2 of the ManagedEsent interop layer for the ESENT database engine is now available on...
Date: 04/06/2009
On our internal mailing list a user asked "When I retrieve a column of type JET_coltypBit that is...
Date: 04/01/2009
(or is "xxx considered harmful" completely worn out as a meme?) I believe that, in general, people...
Date: 03/26/2009
When an assert goes off what does it mean? In the codebases I work in, a failing assert doesn't...
Date: 03/01/2009
Fluent interfaces are a nice way of building up an API which reads very nicely. Chaining methods...
Date: 02/16/2009
Counting the number of records in a table can be extremely expensive, as it requires reading all the...
Date: 02/10/2009
I've wanted to be able to use Esent as a simple, fast, reliable and persistent key/value store. The...
Date: 01/12/2009
I was working on some old code that had a structure that looked like this struct Foo { bool...
Date: 01/08/2009
I confess that, for some years now, I've wondered what the managed equivalent of memcmp() was,...
Date: 01/01/2009
Inserting a record into a table doesn't change the location of the JET_TABLEID used to insert the...
Date: 01/01/2009
Besides providing lots of great input on the new managed layer, Ayende Rahien has found time to...
Date: 12/23/2008
I just published the first release of the Esent .NET managed interface on Codeplex....
Date: 12/22/2008
I was reading a performance whitepaper about another embedded database engine and decided to write a...
Date: 11/07/2008
(All links go to the named Wikipedia article) ESE/ESENT is an embedded database engine providing...
Date: 10/29/2008
Although the ESENT API has been available in the Windows SDK for several years, I don't think enough...
Date: 10/23/2008
Who: I'm Laurion Burchall, a Software Engineer on the Ese/Esent team. What: A blog about the Esent...
Date: 10/21/2008
This is an ESENT programming error I've made a few times, watch out for this pattern:JET_TABLEID...
Date: 10/19/2008
Any ESENT API which creates a table (JetCreateTable, JetCreateTableColumnIndex,...
Date: 05/22/2007