A future world without the SQL Server Image/Text/NText data types. Now's the time to start planning for that future...

Jose Barreto's Blog - SQL Server 2008 and Unstructured Data "SQL Server 2008 introduces two new options to store unstructured data, in addition to the current BLOB support we have in SQL Server 2005

Filed under Database,SQL | 2008 Mar 23

Things in Metadata that are missing in Reflection

System.Reflection is a high-level way of describing Types in .NET targetted at managed code consumers. The API is easy to use, but does not expose all the information that's actually present and affecting

Filed under Design, Architecture | 2008 Mar 15

ASP.NET Case Study: Hang on WaitOne, WaitAny or WaitMultiple

One of the synchronization methods in .NET is the ResetEvent. It comes in two flavors, the AutoResetEvent which resets itself immediately after it is set, and the ManualResetEvent which as the name suggests

Filed under Web Service | 2008 Mar 12

Introducing SQL Server Data Services ( SSDS ) by Nigel Ellis - Mix08 Video Download of Presentation

The speakers for the Microsoft Sync Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, and SQL Server Data Services mentioned the one-two punch you get from leveraging these services together. SQL Server Data Services

Filed under Database,SQL | 2008 Mar 12

Let Live Search know when you update your website

UPDATE : Google also has a ping service that works in the exact same way. You can find it at http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=[your sitemap URL] Microsoft’s Live Search along with Yahoo and Ask

Filed under Database,SQL | 2008 Mar 12

CurrentCulture, CurrentUICulture and DateTime strings

There are a lot of blogs out that that tries to explain which is what, and why it is the way it is. To those of you who just want to know what the results are. I wrote a quick little app to show what happens

Filed under ASP.NET | 2008 Mar 11