Playing with Entity Framework
As certain other “highly integrated” Microsoft technologies, entity framework seems to be high maintenance when it comes to refactoring and moving things around. To move an .emdx file from one […]
Databases
Creating ASP.NET membership database: no funky passwords!
To simplify creating and managing users in ASP.NET Microsoft created a lot of infrastructure that takes care of this boilerplate task. Part of the infrastructure is aspnet_regsql.exe utility that is […]
CSV: Carelessly Saved Values
I currently work with some numeric methods that accept large quantities of data as inputs. Normally the input comes from a database. As I was writing the tests, I needed […]
RedGate SQL Source Control
Another tool I tried today. The idea is very cool, but I don’t like the fact that after I “link” the database I suddenly get gazillion changes to commit. I […]
RedGate SQL Compare
As per this survey, RedGate SQL Compare is one of the best SQL comparison tools on the market. I downloaded a trial today. It works fast, produces safe synchronization scripts […]
Database proramming rant
After a long while I am back to dealing with databases directly from ADO.NET. Guys, this is ridiculous. Any serious library designed like that would be heckled. This is what […]
An ORM Layer in Roundup
Roundup, an bug/issue tracker has a nice approach to ORM. It is written in Python, they have a file called schema.py where you define your database schema in Python. It […]
NHibernate — continued
So, I am still looking for that hbm2ddl tool. I have opened the source project and built everything there. No hbm2ddl in sight. I could, of course, just write an […]
Trying NHibernate
I was recently doing and small research project and got kinda tired of mechanically spitting out all those boring chants like using (var cmd = new SqlCommand(“SELECT foo, bar FROM […]