Whilst partaking in my normal stroll through the Interweb I came across this truly interesting little development from Microsoft Research. Detours from Microsoft Research. How nice! This little development allows you to basically proxy calls from an application to DLLs it loads (by way of interception). Here’s the official blurb: […]
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Following up from a series of previous posts, here is the granddaddy summary of all time. One important thing to remember is that a database is not necessarily just a backing data store for an application (in isolation). Other applications and process could eventually require access to the database, especially […]
Hi all. It was great to see many familiar faces this weekend in Wagga Wagga. Everytime I consider the journey I’m a little bit hesitant, but it’s coming home that reminds me of why the journey is worth it to begin with. This year I co-presented with Matt Lynch […]
Doing some background research ahead of Sunday’s presentation. Thought I’d share this little nugget of wisdom: There are three ways to create a SQL Server CE database. 1. Through a Connection Wizard via Visual Studio or SQL Server Management Studio,2. Programatically, using .Net (the SqlCeEngine class), or3. using the CREATE […]
Recently Paul Stovell made reference to this blog post entry by Jared Parsons (no relation to MrAndyPuppy – or M.RandyPuppy as I once misread). The introduction of the implicit type ‘var’ has been somewhat controversial. Some advocate using it by default, and only declaring types where necessary. Others […]
Hi Everyone, Just in case you didn’t know already this year’s SQL Code Camp is on this coming weekend in that outback pleasure paradise, Wagga Wagga – NSW. Last year I was unable to attend due to family commitments, but this year I’m going, and I’m co-presenting on […]
Hi all, Recently a new programming/IT site went into public beta (created by industry notables Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky), it’s called Stack Overflow. I’m quite fond of the concept, and it seems to be an interesting forum for posting very specific technology questions, or a good way to pose […]
Recently we had a pretty fierce debate internally about the best strategy for data access in architectural design. Predictably, I played middle-of-the-field, “it depends”, but one of my co-workers, Omar Besiso was inspired to write this excellent entry. I’m not going to rehash the same viewpoint I shared last week. […]
Well, I just wanted to put together a short post about Microsoft Connect. For those of you who don’t know about Connect (and if the response at Tech.Ed was any indication, many don’t know!) it’s a great way to participate in Beta programs for new software being released by Microsoft. […]
Notes taken from the SQL Server Summit in Sydney Australia September, 2008. I/O considerations fall into the acronym: GASP$ – Growth, Availability, Size, Performance and $(Price). See http://www.microsoft.com/SQL/AlwaysOn for more on availability/failover. Core I/O requirement is stable media (drives/disks) and write ordering (preserve the correct order of operations). […]
Well, I’ve been fighting Kerberos so I thought perhaps this might be a good time to document it. Hand up if you love Kerberos? …If you like Kerberos? ..If you have to live with Kerberos? Well, anyway, it’s often a necessary evil. Let’s start at the beginning. Event […]
Hi Everyone, The annual SQL Server Code Camp is on again this year in Wagga Wagga (NSW), Australia. The dates are October 11th and 12th at Charles Sturt University (CSU). There are some very good sessions (some backing up from the recent Tech.Ed 2008) which will be worth the journey. […]
Mitch Denny recently passed this link around an internal tech list. Now, as developers (or software engineers) we do have some odd eccentricities. We typically work in far different environments to the contrast of many traditional industries/work environments, and the challenges of day to day life seem to be somewhat […]
This diagram (above) is one which I drew earlier in the week when explaining access control, reliability, trust and environment sanitation. At the time I thought it’s something I ought to blog about, so here is the blog post. I’ve always viewed IT&T systems as a triangle. At the […]
The largest Microsoft platform development conference in Australia kicks off next week. Starting on Monday, there are several pre-conference events lined up. If you head to the SQL Server two day pre-event, you’ll bump into me. The conference kicks of in earnest on Wednesday, and we have three days jam […]