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Quick update re: Data Access blog.
We're putting this blog (Data Access blog) into suspended animation. That doesn't mean we will stop...
Date: 07/11/2006
ADO.NET and SQL Server Everywhere
Steve Lasker has posted a screencast / video over on Channel 9 providing an overview on the various...
Date: 07/07/2006
What I Wish Developers Knew About 'x' in / for SQL Server 2005 (webcasts)
Database Journal has a good list of some upcoming SQL Server related live webcasts scheduled for...
Date: 06/28/2006
ADO.NET vNext - feedback so far
Since announcing our ADO.NET vNext plans at TechEd last week, the team has been on the lookout for...
Date: 06/24/2006
ADO.NET vNext screencast
Hi - I'm Shyam Pather, Development Lead on the ADO.NET vNext team. I’m incredibly excited to share...
Date: 06/21/2006
ADO.NET vNext: The Entity Framework, LINQ and more
Once you are done with shipping large products such as SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 you’d...
Date: 06/20/2006
Lightweight Promotable Transactions, SqlDataReader and Commitment.
Here's a small issue you may need to watch out for when using a System.Transactions transaction with...
Date: 04/14/2006
Data Access with Visual Basic 2005 (Webcast)
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!
We love customers like David Hayden! David has been spending time at the MSDN Forums (in particular...
Date: 03/29/2006
Adding nesting options to DbConnectionScope.
I managed to squeeze in enough time to implement nesting options for the DbConnectionScope class. My...
Date: 03/29/2006
ADO.NET Versions and Indexing
Julia Lerman over at DevSource posted this quick article: "Someone asked me about ADO.NET indexing...
Date: 03/17/2006
Fun Hash Joins with VB9 LINQ
Brian Beckman is a Software Architect in the Data Programmability team here at Microsoft. His latest...
Date: 03/16/2006
Developers! - Express contest - win $10K
A new worldwide contest for developers has been launched by the folks at Visual Studio Express and...
Date: 03/14/2006
An Introduction to Data Structures
In November 2003 MSDN Online published a popular six-part series on using data structures in the...
Date: 03/13/2006
Conversation with scientist, engineer and database legend Jim Gray
Channel 9 has posted great video interview with Jim Gray, a researcher and manager of Microsoft...
Date: 03/09/2006
10 Mistakes Developers Make With Databases
A new article published at Developer.com is worth checking out: Ten of the Biggest Mistakes...
Date: 03/06/2006
Data Binding in ASP.NET 2.0
Jesse Liberty has written up a good article showing how to bind data into ASP.NET control over at...
Date: 03/04/2006
.NET Rocks! - LINQ with Barry Gervin
Over at .Net Rocks!, Regional Director Barry Gervin introduces LINQ, a nascent set of language...
Date: 02/17/2006
A ConnectionScope class. [Alazel Acheson]
I’ve heard a few comments from people who would like an easier way to manage connection lifetime...
Date: 02/14/2006
Getting Schema in ADO.Net 2.0
Carl Perry, a Program Manager from our ADO.Net team has blogged about how to use and extend the new...
Date: 02/12/2006
Shawn Wildermuth on Decomposing ADO.NET
The .NET Rocks! Show had Shawn Wilderman as their guest last week. Shawn is the Microsoft C# MVP who...
Date: 01/29/2006
WinFS and peer-to-peer
Mark Scurrell, Program Manager on the WinFS Sync team has provided an overview on the WinFS blog of...
Date: 01/27/2006
Impersonation inside SQLCLR Stored Procedure [Jian Zeng]
In SQL Server 2005, we now have the ability to write managed (or CLR) code inside a Stored...
Date: 01/25/2006
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver -- RTW [Shelby Goerlitz]
After two betas and 6 months of customer feedback the SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver is generally...
Date: 01/23/2006
PDC 05 demos - Query Processing over DataSet, Fast Uploads, Caching
First of all I’ll have to apologize because it took me several months to put this code out here....
Date: 01/09/2006
ADO.Net 2.0: Relative paths in ConnectionString [Sushil Chordia]
In SqlClient Managed Provider, there has always existed (right from ADO.Net 1.0 days) a keyword in...
Date: 10/28/2005
SqlDependency changes for RTM [Sushil Chordia]
As mentioned in my previous blog, SqlDependency is a new feature in .Net framework 2.0, which...
Date: 09/27/2005
Introduction to SQL 2005 Native XML Web Services (SOAP)
The Native XML Web Services (SOAP) being a new feature in SQL 2005, I like to provide a brief...
Date: 08/30/2005
Getting the MARS Sample working in the June CTP
Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) is a cool new feature in SQL Server 2005 which allows you to...
Date: 08/29/2005
SSL in SQL Server 2005 [Il-Sung Lee]
I often receive questions inquiring about the (channel) encryption capabilities in SQL Server 2005....
Date: 08/05/2005
Using MARS with SQL Native Client [Chris Lee]
As stated in my previous post, the majority of new features available through SQL Native Client are...
Date: 08/02/2005
Getting started with SQL Native Client [Chris Lee]
As Acey Bunch explained in April, SQL Native Client meets the needs of developers wanting to take...
Date: 07/29/2005
Win the Ultimate Chopper!
Share your story of migrating from Oracle to SQL Server, and the ultimate chopper might just migrate...
Date: 07/01/2005
Exceptions in ADO.Net 2.0 [Siraj Lala]
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
Dataworks team at TechEd 2005
How many of you are coming to TechEd 2005 in Orlando? A show of hands, please. Excellent! The...
Date: 06/03/2005
Announcing the MDAC 2.8 sp1 Redistributable [Brad Rhodes]
We have shipped MDAC 2.8 sp1. This is the version of MDAC that originally shipped with Windows XP...
Date: 05/19/2005
Does ADO.NET update batching really do something?
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
Introducing SQL Native Client
By now you may have heard of a new data access technology called “SQL Native Client” that will ship...
Date: 04/26/2005
.Net Framework 2005 (aka Whidbey) Beta2 Shipped! [Carl Perry]
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
API Changes between CTP [Pablo Castro]
We’ve been seeing several comments on email and blogs lately about changes in the APIs between CTP...
Date: 04/05/2005
Primer to ConnectionStringBuilder in ADO.Net v2.0 [Sushil Chordia]
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
Unification of System.Data.SqlClient and System.Data.SqlServer [Pablo Castro]
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!
Welcome to the DataWorks team blog. If you’re a regular on our MSDN site...
Date: 03/20/2005
