CallContext

It finally clicked with me this afternoon while watching Luca Bolognese demonstrate Linq to SQL to the EMEA crowd. Linq to SQL (L2S from here on) is about the data. NHibernate is about the domain. At least as far as I understand. In the demo, Luca at Read More

Somewhere way back in the beginning of everything database, you learn that nulls are bad. Nulls cause problems with queries. Your chosen language doesn't work well with nulls. Nulls cause little puppies to die. All that stuff. As I was transitioning through Read More

In the last week I've had this discussion a couple of times. Something the last two years of work have taught me about infrastructure is people's perception of backup is a little incorrect. Read More

I've just read an interesting post on Jeff Atwood's site, Coding Horror. He questions why database engines can't self-tune tables by adding indexes. Read More

Saying "Free database models" to a developer is like saying "Free icecream" to a kid. Read More

That's right! Do you want to be able to alter any of the IDENTITY properties for a column in SQL server? Well, you've come to the right place, boy-o (or girl-o). Read More