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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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