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Abstraction: A Condom for Your Code
27 February 08 07:31 AM | Jesse Ezell | 3 comment(s)

"Why should you put a 10 foot pole between yourself and technology? Well, because Microsoft (or insert vendor of your choice here - they’re all equally guilty of this) tend to deprecate (as in kill) the technology they evangelised just last year/month...

Filed under: General Software Development, SQL Server, Notification Services

Using WCF endpoints with SQL Reporting Services
21 February 08 07:39 AM | Jesse Ezell | 3 comment(s)

Consuming WCF endpointpoints with SQL Reporting Services can be difficult. Most of this difficulty is for two reasons: 1) SQL Reporting Services XML and web services support is slightly better than a piece of crap. 2) Documentation for the XML query provider...

Filed under: .NET, SQL Server, WCF, SQL Server Reporting Services

Sun Buys MySQL, Gets into Database Business
16 January 08 10:38 AM | Jesse Ezell | 2 comment(s)

With their plans to acquire MySQL, looks like Sun is gearing up to go head to head with Microsoft on another front. [1] http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/01/16/sun-acquires-mysql/

Filed under: SQL Server, Sun, MySql

Who Needs ORM, I've got SQL 2005
13 April 07 05:27 PM | Jesse Ezell | 10 comment(s)

One of the coolest features of SQL 2005 is the XML support. With the recent enhancements to the FOR XML option, you can really get a lot of mileage out of SQL. A common task in a lot of applications involves retrieving an item with many children. Due...

Filed under: .NET, SQL 2005, SQL Server, SQLXML