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Visual Studio Tools for Database Professionals - Rename Refactoring Take II

Andres Aguiar's Weblog — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:19:52 GMT

In January 2007 I complained about the support for renaming fields in VS Tools for DB Professionals.

Inline (Dynamic) SQL vs Stored Procedures « Steve Finding

Inline (Dynamic) SQL vs Stored Procedures « Steve Finding — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:44:52 GMT

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Astoria

.Net World — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:05:00 GMT

I was going to write a blog post on Astoria but Pablo's post says almost everything I was going to

To DataSet or not to DataSet?

.Net World — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:36:55 GMT

That is the discussion!

re: Presenting Aikido in the Patterns and Practices Summit

Mladen — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:42:04 GMT

Any particular reason this is named after a marshal art/way of life?

it's kind of funny... it's like i'd name my software Karate :))

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Sadek Drobi’s Blog » High abstraction level of DSLs to reduce the testing burden?

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:10:58 GMT

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re: Normalization

aaguiar — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:09:22 GMT

In the WikiPedia entry about Temporal Databases en.wikipedia.org/.../Temporal_database there are some links to resources about this.

I read two of the books that are cited (Date's and Snodgrass'). Date's has a lot of theory and it's difficult to read. The other one is more practical. The PDF to this one is linked from the Wikipedia article.

Regards

re: Normalization

Shane Kenyon — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:00:45 GMT

I am looking for a spec for implementing "effective dating" and was wondering whether anyone knew of any. I am familiar with the concept from implementing PeopleSoft and want to replicate it in some applications I'm working on. I like Doug's comments above but would like more concrete details before proceeding. Thanks in advance.

re: Democratizing the Cloud

FransBouma — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:53:21 GMT

I found the video pretty boring. The main thing that kept on popping into my head was: Meijer is one of the most highest skilled language professors we ever had, and here he is talking about something completely not his field and why is this then interesting...

Data consumption / routing is a totally different field than languages, and despite his extreme high level of intelligence, I couldn't help myself thinking "Stick with what you know best, Eric, and let data specialists do the work in the data field.. PLEASE". Of course, languages do have a context they're used in, but still...

Anyway, democratizing the cloud... I don't believe in it as the next big thing. At least not on the level where it is advertised now: it's the same old story about webservices and how we will all consume them in future applications and how that will bring is all the best software we'll ever have. This story has been told for a long time now and what has effectively changed?

The only reason big ISV's are still pushing webservices is that it is their vision how to make money after fat client apps get too good so no-one will upgrade.