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Don Box predicts the present?
Accodring to Don Box's predictions for 2005, Josh Bloch (author of "Effective Java") will write a C# book called "Effective C#". Hold on there! Local Regional Director (and president of our local .NET User Group) Bill Wagner has already authored such a tome: Effective C# : 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#.
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Oracle and Blobs
More fun with Oracle! I was reading an Oracle table that contained a "LONG RAW" field. You're supposed to be able to get at those types with the GetBytes method. According to the MSDN documentation for IDataRecord.GetBytes: