A Google News search for Microsoft SSDS, the SQL Server Data Services it announced last week, yields just six articles – SIX! A random nonsense search term...
1 replies - 1062 views - 03/19/08 by Tim Negris in News
While looking for a solution of a different problem, I realized that SQL Server has a feature called extended stored procedures. Extended stored procedures, at...
0 replies - 745 views - 03/17/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
"sakila" is the
sample database shipped with MySQL (pronounced as
my ess-kew-ell). In the context of Sun
Microsystems
announcing the agreement to...
0 replies - 550 views - 02/13/08 by Arun Gupta in News
Greenplum, the other (Postgres/Bizgres-based) open
source database near and dear to Sun besides MySQL, this one capable of
messaging a petabyte of data and...
0 replies - 465 views - 02/13/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Integrating your application with Active Directory (or another LDAP based directory) is a common requirement in many business applications. Almost every...
1 replies - 2683 views - 02/11/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
In business applications, there often is a need to know the number of business days and/or hours in a month/year. There is a dozen ways to do this depending on...
0 replies - 1023 views - 02/07/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
Most people that use SQL Server are familiar with formatting dates inside SQL Server. The common approach is: convert(varchar, getdate(), 106) -- Displays a...
1 replies - 3477 views - 02/04/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called...
0 replies - 9429 views - 02/03/08 by Ivo Jansch in News
Interesting story today asking whether LINQ has given .NET an edge over Java. LINQ is best-known as a way to embed SQL-like statements directly in code. ...
16 replies - 4407 views - 01/30/08 by Alex Miller in News
LiquiBase Core 1.5.0 is now available for download from http://www.liquibase.org/download. LiquiBase is an open source database version control and...
0 replies - 1414 views - 01/29/08 by Nathan Voxland in News
Something has happened – or maybe didn’t happened – that has
caused Microsoft to delay the release of SQL Server 2008 to the calendar three
quarter. It...
0 replies - 593 views - 01/28/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
A blog posting from MySQL founder and original developer, Michael "Monty" Widenius, announces the release of a major new database engine called...
6 replies - 4875 views - 01/28/08 by Rick Ross in News
The ink was still drying on Sun’s billion-dollar deal to buy
the webby, low-end open source database house MySQL when Sun turned around and
put money...
0 replies - 2032 views - 01/22/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
I know, a lot of people are happy to work with JPA and Hibernate.
Consider this a post from somebody who thinks things can be improved.
I have a love/hate...
9 replies - 2603 views - 01/17/08 by Steven Devijver in News
Sun, Oracle’s sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle
competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source
database that’s part...
2 replies - 582 views - 01/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
