Rafat Sarosh

Replication - Enterprise SOA Anti pattern

Too much of the good thing – Replication. Nice article in ‘ The Architecture Journal ’, Whenever you see a replication happening in your enterprise, cast a doubtful eye on it, this can signal an Enterprise SOA Anti pattern . It is true to the dots, I Read More...

Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 10:55 PM by rafats | 0 Comments

Scope_Identity() and OUTPUT

I seen couple of articles talking about OUTPUT Clause of SQL 2005, but no one is warning the side affect of it on the scope_Identity() function. Let me explain with an example: You have a Table T1, and would like to save the auditing data from T1 to T2. Read More...

Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 2:16 AM by rafats | 2 Comments

connection string

So what is the OLE DB connection string for Excel or Exchange? Finally, all this on one page http://www.connectionstrings.com/ . Read More...

Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 1:51 AM by rafats | 0 Comments

Divide by Zero

What will be the out put of the following code: try { double k = 19; double m = 0; k = k / m; Console .WriteLine( Convert .ToString(k)); Console .Read(); } catch ( Exception ex) { Console .WriteLine(ex.Message); } Different data type behave differently Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:13 PM by rafats | 4 Comments