admin on June 19th, 2008

The new SQL Server Native Client 10.0 app appears not to return the password back when using Delphi’s ADO PromptDataSource
Update: 6/20/2008
There is definitely a bug in the Dialog not in the PrompDataSource.  The solution is posted at the end of the article.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 installs a new OLE DB Provider called: “SQL Server Native [...]

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admin on June 15th, 2008

Note: To use the ADO.NET Entity Framework you are going to need Visual Studio 2008 + SP1
What is it?
Basically it allows you to create a model of your database and map objects to relational data (classes).  It marries classes to tables.  Using LINQ you can easily query the classes auto generated by the model.
Quick Sample
Step [...]

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admin on June 8th, 2008

I predict that SQL server 2008 is going to be a huge hit. It has been designed for performance and scalability from the start.
Some of the new features:

Table Valued Parameters – stored procedures will accept a table parameter.  ADO.NET has been modified so from C#, etc you can create a new variable called ‘SqlDBType.Structure‘ and [...]

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