Angel Saenz-Badillos
random ramblings on ADO.NET LINQ Extensions and JDBC
Blogging about link Extensions
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Date: 01/29/2007
JDBC V1.1 Distributed Transactions with Read Committed and Snapshot isolation.
One of the biggest changes you may not have noticed in the v1.1 2005 JDBC driver is that we have...
Date: 08/29/2006
JDBC Snapshot isolation level
I have gotten some questions about using Sql Server 2005 with the 2005 JDBC driver. There are...
Date: 08/24/2006
JDBC 2005 v1.1 is now available.
The v1.1 2005 JDBC driver is now available for download here:...
Date: 08/22/2006
JDBC June 2006 Community Tech Preview available.
Announcing the June 2006 Community Tech Preview of the JDBC 2005 driver:...
Date: 06/26/2006
JDBC v1.1 CTP and the Product Feedback Center
When you get down to it Customer feedback is what makes a project like this interesting and...
Date: 04/20/2006
JDBC v1.1 CTP Using Type 2 Integrated Security
To use the Type 2 Integrated Security feature with the v1.1 CTP (if you don't have this already make...
Date: 04/14/2006
JDBC V1.1 CTP Available
I am proud to say that the first community preview release of the SQL Server 2005 JDBC v1.1 driver...
Date: 04/14/2006
JDBC 2005 beta 2 getting started with SQLEXPRESS
Sql Express is going to be a good match for the Sql Server 2005 JDBC provider, it is free, it is...
Date: 10/20/2005
JDBC Beta 2 connection string properties
As you have probably seen by now we have shipped beta 2 of the Sql Server 2005 JDBC driver....
Date: 09/30/2005
JDBC getting started with the 2005 JDBC driver for Sql Server 2000 and Sql server 2005
If you had told me a year ago that I would be working on a JDBC driver I would have honestly thought...
Date: 08/02/2005
JDBC the new member of the DataWorks family, Sql Server 2005 JDBC Driver (beta 1)
One of the hardest things for me this last few months was to go into “radio silence” over the...
Date: 07/01/2005
Say hello to the DataWorks blog
It is a fair assumption that you have not heard about DataWorks, that is ok most folks arround...
Date: 03/21/2005
ADO.NET 2.0 and System.Transactions, downlevel functions and nested scopes
As with most of my blog posts this started as a customer question, the core of the problem was that...
Date: 02/12/2005
Ado.net 2.0 Mars Session Pooling. (aka stuff you don't need to know.)
Mars session pooling, Well, it has been a long time since my last blog and I am finding it very hard...
Date: 01/13/2005
ado.net creating a single connection versus relying on connection pooling, my two cents.
Creating a connection object at the start of the process and passing it versus relying on connection...
Date: 10/08/2004
ADO.NET 2.0 The connection pool and distributed transactions
I am a big fan of pop quiz style blogs like the ones you can find here: https://blogs.msdn.com/brada/...
Date: 10/07/2004
ADO.NET new for 2.0, Clearing the pool on Server recycle
This blog talks about behavior in the SqlClient and the Oracle managed provider exclusively. One of...
Date: 10/05/2004
Design time Side by Side poll (installing different versions of visual studio)
I became involved in the Side by Side and compatibility work items after making the mistake of...
Date: 09/24/2004
ADO.NET The misunderstood “Connection Lifetime” managed pooler connection string keyword.
I find that we have not done a good job of explaining the “knobs” used to tweak the managed...
Date: 09/20/2004
Sql Server 2005 User Defined Types and the "File or assembly name not found" exception.
"File or assembly name ‘<udtname>’, Version=1.2.0.0, Culture=neutral,...
Date: 09/09/2004
ADO.NET 2.0 Multiple Active Resut Sets per connection in Sql Server 2005 (MARS) FAQ
ADO.NET 2.0 Multiple Active Resut Sets per connection in Sql Server 2005 (MARS) FAQ Q: What is MARS?...
Date: 09/07/2004
ADO.NET 2.0 Asynchronous Command Execution (ASYNC) FAQ
ADO.NET 2.0 Asynchronous Command Execution (ASYNC) FAQ (DISCLAIMER: Based on Whidbey beta1 and...
Date: 09/02/2004
Rhythms Airlift
Yesterday I had the fortune of meeting Bob Beauchemin (https://staff.develop.com/bobb/weblog/) for...
Date: 08/26/2004
Connection Pooling and the "Timeout expired" exception FAQ
System.InvalidOperationException: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a...
Date: 08/25/2004
Using Sql Server 2005 Snapshot isolation level with ado.net 2.0
Sql Server 2005 now supports non-blocking read operations with the Snapshot isolation level. What...
Date: 08/24/2004
Programatically accessing ADO.NET 2.0 performance counters
I have found that many times using Perfmon with the new ADO.NET counters is not ideal, a much better...
Date: 08/09/2004
ADO.NET 2.0 new SqlClient Provider Statistics
Presenting ODBC-style statistics for SqlClient. SqlClient statistics are strictly per connection,...
Date: 08/04/2004
ADO.NET 2.0 new GetSchema method. Schema is finally a first class citizen of the managed providers.
ADO.NET 2.0 has finally added support for retrieving Schema information. In v1.1 your only option...
Date: 08/03/2004
ADO.NET 2.0 new Performance Counters
Today I want to go over one of the least talked about new ADO.NET features, performance counters....
Date: 08/02/2004
Setting the IsolationLevel using the System.Transactions TransactionScope.
Traditionally distributed transactions have always run in Serializable isolation level, the safest...
Date: 07/27/2004
Format=UserDefined UDTs in Sql Server 2005
Today I am talking about Format=UserDefined User Defined Types (UDTs). Format=Native UDTs are...
Date: 07/27/2004
Getting started with Sql Server 2005 User Defined Types (UDTs)
I have really tried to start with the simplest possible UDT I could come up with. As you can see,...
Date: 07/26/2004
Whidbey ADO.NET 2.0 User Defined Types (UDTs) and Visual Studio
User Defined Types are a complicated feature, but it is hard to tell when you are using Visual...
Date: 07/22/2004
Whidbey ADO.NET 2.0 User Defined Types (UDTs) with Sql Server 2005
You can now create your own objects in managed code and install them into Sql Server 2005 as data...
Date: 07/20/2004
Whidbey ADO.NET 2.0. Thoughts on how some new features can be misused.
There are a number of new features in ADO.NET 2.0 that have the potential to be grossly misused...
Date: 07/15/2004
ADO.NET Distributed transactions, loose ends.
There is still a lot of information related to using ADO.NET with System.Transactions Distributed...
Date: 07/15/2004
Whidbey ADO.NET Promotable Transactions with System.Transactions & Yukon
There is a special partnership between System.Transactions and Sql Server 2005, and no, it is not...
Date: 07/12/2004
Whidbey ado.net 2.0 Manually enlisting into System.Transaction distributed transaction.
I have gone over the TransactionScope in fair detail, it is now time to look at manual enlistment,...
Date: 07/12/2004
More setup information, straight from the source
Florin Lazar was the person that first introduced me to System.Transactions, he has a great weblog...
Date: 07/12/2004
Whidbey ADO.NET 2.0 System.Transactions Distributed Transactions. TransactionScope
Let’s take a look at how the new System.Transactions Distributed Transactions work with...
Date: 07/07/2004
Whidbey ADO.NET System.Transactions Distributed Transactions
This is imo one of the best new features for ADO.NET imo and I was glad to get some feedback that...
Date: 07/06/2004
Whidbey ADO.NET System.Transactions Distributed Transactions
The hardest thing about this feature is without a doubt the OS setup required. Most user problems...
Date: 07/06/2004
Whidbey ADO.NET beta 1 has shipped. Favorite features
Well, we have shipped whidbey beta 1. This is a great release for the ado.net team, we have managed...
Date: 07/02/2004
Welcome to this ADO.NET log, feel free to pull up a chair
Random ramblings, thats what it is all about. If you like ADO.NET just a little too much (and I am...
Date: 07/02/2004