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Looking for some .NET Developers
Published 6 June 8 10:19 PM | William
A client of mine located in the Aiken/Columbia South Carolina Area has asked me if I had any friends who are .NET Developers and looking for a job. They are looking for at least one Junior Developer, on Mid-Level Developer and several Senior developers...
Coding Arguments - aka How to Start Religious Wars
Published 23 July 7 5:33 AM | William
I am lucky enough to work for a company that really encourages us to get together and learn/hang out etc. One way this happens is by Tech Nights. Basically, we have in office meetings which are recorded via Live Meeting, where someone picks a topic and...
Musings on the database formerly known as Sql Everywhere
Published 2 November 6 2:53 AM | William
The IM volume I received today about the Rollback to SqlCE issue was enough to border on overwhelming. Between PMs and some lazy SOB CRM guy trying to get me to do all his work for him, it was hard focusing on work today. (And seriously, if you are a...
Differentiating between "Denormalization" and excuse making.
Published 27 September 6 6:47 AM | William
I've actually got a lot to discuss about database stuff but wanted to start out explaining a very basic concept. All me to disgress for a moment. I've worked at a few places where there were some Cobol/AS 400 developers that were quite full of...
Comment of the week - Sql Server Reporting Services vs. Crystal
Published 27 September 6 6:27 AM | William
A while ago, I posted this about how much a55 I think Crystal Reports sucks. A long time ago, back at like v.7, I thought Crystal was a decent product. And to be honest, it still is a decent product. But it comes with a lot of baggage and has a lot that...
Normalization really does matter
Published 7 September 6 3:30 PM | William
It seems like years ago, but I remember one of my professors giving us an assignment. It involved taking a database chock full of redundancies and writing the SQL Statements to make a few small updates. We thought it was an assignment to test our SQL...
Transferring data around with ADO.NET 2.0 - SqlBulkCopy
Published 26 August 6 5:3 PM | William
I'm working at a client on a data migration and found some results that were surprising. I expected there to be a difference but not one quite this large... Synopsis of Problem: Right now I'm working on a rather complex migration from a bunch of disparate...
To use Stored Procedures or not.
Published 14 June 6 9:14 PM | William
A while ago, Frans wrote Stored Procedures are Bad, M'Kay . None other than Adam Machanic chimed in, arguing essentially the opposite . The always insightful Anatoly Lubarsky gives his take on it and well, my head is spinning. I was Mr. Stored Procedure...
Where's the Extra Connection String Coming From?
Published 14 June 6 1:33 AM | William
One of the issues I came across when writing my new book was with ConnectionStrings. Examine the following configuration section: <connectionStrings> <add name="AdventureWorksString" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" connectionString="Data...
Pablo Castro on ADO.NET 3.0
Published 12 June 6 11:39 PM | William
I'm bummed that I couldn't make it to Tech Ed, Sahil is presenting and everyone I know is up there. Anyway, i've been reading Kent Tegels liveblog of Pablo Castro's ADO.NET 3.0 presentation report on ADO.NET 3.0 and am green with envy. Pablo is one of...
Learn ADO.NET from the Best
Published 6 June 6 10:29 PM | William
Well, saying someone is 'the best' is a pretty big statement, but one thing is certain, any discussion of 'the greatest talent in ADO.NET' will have Sahil's name featured prominently. Just look at what his people who read his book say! Anyway, if you...
With ADO.NET DataTables Remove != Delete
Published 10 May 5 7:39 PM | William
One of the very first mistakes I made when I was learning ADO.NET was confusing DataTable.Select with Remove. I wrote this a while ago which explains the distinction in detail. Bill Vaughn was kind enough to set me straight on the issue. Anyway, in a...
What's wrong with this Transaction?
Published 15 April 5 6:55 PM | William
I've seen this come up in newsgroups quite a bit and figured that although it's not exactly hot news, it's worth mentioning. Let's say that you have a DataSet and you want your updates to work transactionally [meaining that they all succeed or fail together...
DataReader vs. DataAdapter
Published 26 February 5 12:53 AM | William
I'm totally stoked to see Bill Vaughn blogging because he's 1) Irish 2) named William 3) He's a bad a33. I saw Sahil and Rocky chimed in on this issue - and it's one that I feel like running my big trap about too. In the debate between which to use, there...
http://www.everythingado.net
Published 30 January 5 2:45 AM | William
Well, I finally bit the bullet and purchased my site from Brinkster. I'm going to be hosting blogs for a few of my disaffected DNJ friends - but well, due to the nature of the site - I'm not handing them out to everyone - If I know you, or you can convince...
Requests for Content
Published 23 January 5 10:40 PM | William
I've finally started to get a little free time these days and I'm going to be doing some quality Travelling in the next few weeks - if you're interested in something in particular, I'm taking requests. Anything ADO.NET, Anything Compact Framework, (Not...
BinaryFormatter in ADO.NET 2.0
Published 23 January 5 10:26 PM | William
This is hardly hot off of the press, but I had a few questions about it and figured I'd post it. There is a new RemotingFormat property w/ DataSets in ADO.NET 2.0 - and depending on how you are trying to work things, the differences can be profound. Note...
Rowstate is EVERYTHING
Published 21 January 5 7:16 PM | William
Well, not really, but if you don't get the concept of Rowstate, you'll have little fun with ADO.NET. I've written about this several times before, but it's a very persistent problem. I had my share of problems with it at first, until one day I 'got' it...
Caught Up on some reading this weekend
Published 28 December 4 12:47 AM | William
Got the chance to read through two new books although it looks like I got a few more on my list that look pretty good. Office 2003 Programming - Real World Applications - Ty Anderson ( APress ): Normally, I run from books with these sorts of titles. There...
Andres on Remoting Datasets...
Published 16 December 4 12:40 PM | William
Andres Aguiar , the superbrain behind Deklarit responds to Rory's comments on Stuart's post . <<As I cannot comment in Stuart's blog, I'll do it here ;) a) He's right about that if you are not going to update data, then it's probably not a good...

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