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SQL Server Denali CTP 1 SUX
.. from a relational developers perspective!!Well, the title may be a bit harsh, but at least it grabbed your attention – did it not?!A week ago, or so, I wrote a wish list to Santa for Denali from a...
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Using F# in SQLCLR
Recently I have become very interested in F# and I am at the moment trying to get to grips with it. It is definitely a different beast than C#, but so far I like it – a lot!Anyway, I am a SQL nerd, and...
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TPL Dataflow, Axum v.NEXT?
At PDC 2010 Microsoft showed the new Async features of coming C# (and VB.NET) versions, and quite a lot has been written about it already. Part of the Async CTP is TPL Dataflow, and this has gone...
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F#, Mono and Mac
This is a first post about my experiences with running F# and Mono on a Mac.In a previous post I wrote about how I have started to play with F#. As that post also covered SQLCLR it was obvious I was on...
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F#, Mono and Mac - Take II
So yesterday I wrote about how I have started using F# and Mono on my MacBook.I wrote about how I downloaded the F# bits, unzipped and put them in a specific directory I had created. Today after having...
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Transactions in SQL Server (take 2956)
Transactions in SQL Server seems to be a difficult topic to grasp. This weekend I came across a blog-post where the poster showed a “solution” to the “The ROLLBACK TRANSACTION request has no...
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First Impressions Microsoft BUILD - Win 8
I have a while ago just finished watching the live stream of the first keynote (yes there will be one tomorrow as well), at Microsoft BUILD. Having attended / presented, at quite a few of these kind of...
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SqlClrProject on GitHub
As some of you may know, I – once upon a time – developed a project (VS add-in, templates, etc) for automatic deployment of CLR assemblies to SQL Server: SqlClrProject. That project has been dormant...
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Moving to a New Blog Engine
Every so often I get an itch, and I want to try out a new blog-platform. The time has now come to leave my self-hosted WordPress and move on to something “geekier” (I am a geek after all).I have just...
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Installing Octopress on Windows
In an earlier post, I wrote how I had changed blog-engine from WordPress to OctoPress. At the moment I am running Windows as my main OS (mostly due to work related requirements), and – as OctoPress is...
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SQL Saturday Presentations
The two first weekends in August I were in Cape Town and Johannesburg respectively presenting at SQL Saturday events. I had a great time, and the audience were terrific. My employer Derivco graciously...
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SQL Server 2005 and DMV's
One of the first thing I usually do after having installed a new version of SQL Server is to snoop around at the system tables to see what new tables there are and what they can give me information...
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Testing, Testing, Anyone Out There?
What can I say, I am crap at this "blogging" thing! Three years ago, I resuscitated my blog, after a hiatus of one year. I also switched blog engine from WordPress to OctoPress (which at that stage was...
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SQL Server Error Handling Gotchas
Way back when (in 2010 as a matter of fact), I wrote a couple of blog-posts (here and here) about error handling in the new CTP releases of SQL Server Denali. Denali was what would become SQL Server...
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Abort, Abort, We Are XACT_ABORT:ing, Or Are We?!
SET XACT_ABORT defines whether a transaction is automatically rolled back when a T-SQL statement raises a run-time exception, and when you read posts from prominent SQL bloggers you quite often see...
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Interesting Stuff - Week 2
Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, etc., that has to do with things that interest me:data sciencedistributed computingSQL Servertransactions (both db as well as non db)and other...
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Interesting Stuff - Week 3
Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, etc., that has to do with things that interest me:data sciencedata in generaldistributed computingSQL Servertransactions (both db as well as...
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Doomed, We are All Doomed I Say!
Just to set things straight, the title of this post has nothing to do with US politics, but the infinitely more important (and exciting) subject of transactions in SQL Server and the concept of doomed...
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Interesting Stuff - Week 4
Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, etc., that has to do with things that interest medata sciencedata in generaldistributed computingSQL Servertransactions (both db as well as...
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Interesting Stuff - Week 5
Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, etc., that has to do with things that interest me:data sciencedata in generaldistributed computingSQL Servertransactions (both db as well as...
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