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Why Oracle is immoveable in the Enterprise

At Oracle OpenWorld yesterday I spoke to an attendee from a global enterprise. His company is a big IBM customer and would like to standardise on DB2. To some extent it does, but there is still around...

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SQL Server 2011 Denali publishes tables as Windows network folders

I’ve been testing the new Community Tech Preview of SQL Server 2011, codenamed “Denali”. Here is an intriguing feature. You can now create a new kind of table called a FileTable. A FileTable is mapped...

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Full circle for Microsoft database APIs as OLEDB for SQL Server is deprecated

Microsoft’s Eric Nelson has posted about how the OLEDB driver for SQL Server is being deprecated and will not be supported beyond “Denali”, the forthcoming version. OLEDB was created to be the...

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Data Access in Windows 8 WinRT

I’ve been teasing out details about the Windows Runtime (WinRT) here at Microsoft’s BUILD conference in Anaheim, California. WinRT is the runtime for touch-friendly Metro-style apps, in effect...

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Microsoft LocalDB: another option for local databases

Microsoft is launching SQL Server 2012 on  March 7th 2012. In Microsoft’s world “launches” do not always coincide with the availability of release code, which may come before or after, but they are...

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Moving a database from on-premise SQL Server to SQL Azure: some hassle

I am impressed with the new Windows Azure platform, but when I moved a simple app from my local machine to Azure I had some hassle copying the SQL Server database. The good news is that you can connect...

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Microsoft SQL Azure versus SQL Server on Amazon AWS

Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server offers cloud instances of SQL Server. Amazon’s offering even supports “License Mobility”, Microsoft jargon that lets volume licensing customers use an existing SQL...

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Visual Studio 2012 hits and misses

A few quick reflections after writing a rather large review of Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft’s development tool for everything Windows. Several things impressed me. The Graphics Diagnostics Tools for...

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Microsoft financials: record revenue, consumer sales declining in drift...

Microsoft has announced record revenue for its second financial quarter, October-December 2013. Revenue was bumped up by the launch of Xbox One (3.9 million sold) and new Surface hardware. The real...

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SQL Server 2014 is done: Hekaton, Azure integration

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2014 to manufacturing (an odd phrase in these diskless days) but which signifies that it is code complete for the initial release. General availability is April 1st....

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Hands on: SQL Server 2014 with data files in Azure Blob Storage

One intriguing new feature in Micrsosoft’s SQL Server 2014 is the ability to create or attach databases whose files are in Azure blog storage. This sounds like something that would not work at all...

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Microsoft SQL Server is coming to Linux. What are the implications for...

Microsoft is porting SQL Server, its popular database manager, to Linux. According to Executive VP Scott Guthrie: Today I’m excited to announce our plans to bring SQL Server to Linux as well. This will...

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Generating code for simple SQL Server data access without Entity Framework,...

I realise that Microsoft’s Entity Framework is the most common approach for data access in the .NET world, but I have also always had good results from a simple manual approach using DbConnection,...

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Point-in-time restore: a handy built-in feature in Azure SQL

I am working on a project that is hosted in Azure and I made a mistake, running a SQL script that was dependent on another SQL script that I had forgotten to run. It messed up the foreign keys and I...

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