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Are we still talking about Stored Procedures vs. Dynamic SQL?

Posted: Sunday, March 26, 2006 2:05 PM by Barry Gervin | 5 Comments
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Rob Howard and Frans Bouma still are. And I guess, I am now too. Let's summarize a few of the facts from these counter points: Any form of pre-compilation or cached query plan arguments are moot betweem SQL and Procs. Rob has some outdated information Read More...

Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation (and you thought you wouldn't have to learn BizTalk)

Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:43 PM by Barry Gervin | 4 Comments
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If you're not using BizTalk today in your applications, probably the #1 reason is that you can't afford it. “It's overkill” is probably a big reason as well, but I consider that a variation. Seriously, how many applications do you write that Read More...

When is a database oriented as a service?

Posted: Friday, May 27, 2005 4:18 PM by Barry Gervin | 8 Comments
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Do you consider your database as a service? It's worthwhile to review the tenents of a service oriented architecture . The first two tenents above are probably the most relevant to my question. If you do all of your data access through stored procedures, Read More...

VS Live Orlando: Building "Operations-Friendly" ASP.NET Applications with Instrumentation and Logging

Posted: Sunday, September 12, 2004 3:34 PM by Barry Gervin | 1 Comments
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Yes, it's the longest title of all VS Live Orlando presentations! It's a big topic and it deserves a big name. I'm heading out Monday night to hurricane country to deliver this talk on Tuesday morning. I like this topic because when you get into it, it's Read More...

SOA Challenges: Entity Aggregation

Posted: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:21 PM by Barry Gervin | 2 Comments
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Ramkumar Kothandaraman has a good article just released on MSDN discussing SOA Challenges: Entity Aggregation . Aggregation is a much better name than “composable entities“ since it's definition implies that property sets of an entity grow Read More...

Layered Design and DataSets for Dummies

Posted: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:38 AM by Barry Gervin | 2 Comments
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Scott Hanselman does a nice 30 second intro into layered design. If any of this is new to you, run quickly to read this . Scott does a quick bash at Datasets (although doesn't say why) and in my new role as DataSet boy I have to disagree with him and Read More...