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My interview with DotNetRocks! is now online!
My interview with .Net Rocks! is now online!
. Please use this link to to get to the show's page.
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Gavin King slams Object Databases
In a great article, Gavin King (of Hibernate fame) whipes the floor with what we used to call 'Object Databases'. Excellent reading material and full of information why these RDBMS's still stick around after all those many claims of object database vendors that their product is so incredibly more efficient.
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The endless fall to uselessness of MS Connect
I ran into a new low for Microsoft Connect product feedback. Check this item (you have to login with your MS Passport/Live ID. I don't know why). The title is "When will .NET 2.0 service pack 1 be out (IF ever) ?", I posted this on April 17th. The title explains it all.
Today I got a reply (whoa, after one month already). The status is now changed to "Resolved (Fixed)". This is the comment Microsoft posted:Thanks for your post. Our plans are always to deliver the necessary roll-up of a product in Service pack form when it makes the most (positive) impact. We continue to deliver necessary fixes (QFEs and GDRs) in the meantime and we've delivered a SP1 for Visual Studio.
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API's and production code shouldn't be designed by scientists
One of the biggest mistakes Microsoft made in Database land was the absense of a proper paging mechanism in SqlServer 7 and SqlServer 2000. (No, don't come to me with tricks with @@ROWCOUNT because these don't always work in all situations). People had to use temp tables to get a mechanism which always works in all situations. What a surprise it was to see that Microsoft said they solved it in SqlServer 2005: they added a construct which offered paging inside the database without the necessity of temp tables. Though, who designed this feature? Did that person ever write production SQL code or did that person ever write normal business applications? Did anyone ever tell that person that all other major databases on the planet, except Access, had a simple paging mechanism build in so anything more complex than that would be bad? Apparently not.
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New blog server as it seems, which doesn't work ok with my blog-skin
It seems Telligent uploaded a new version of Community server here on weblogs.asp.net, though it broke my custom blog-skin so the blog doesn't look that great now. Sorry for that, I'll try to migrate the skin a.s.a.p.