February 2006 - Posts

.NET Persistence Frameworks are around me

posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 6:29 AM by gux

On these weeks I am in persistence frameworks stuff due to my activities in a development project. Being a database guy I am impressed: There are so many proposals to be considered mainly from the Java world.

I have a limited time assigned to the task of evaluating some of them. So I´ve started googling and found Fabrice Marguerie's "Choosing an object-relational mapping tool" article a good starting point. The "Object Relational Tool Comparison" and "Object Relational Tool Comparison Dot Net" pages both were great help (I am in the .NET side of The Force so I preferred the later one :-)). Surely Hibernate/NHibernate and Gentle.NET are at my first glance, worth to be considered.  Finally, what about code generators? They are valid options too. I am evaluating MyGeneration and Olymars.

If you know .NET-based proposals from your experience, just drop me a line here or email me.

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Project REAL

posted Monday, February 20, 2006 7:13 AM by gux

Project REAL (acronym for "Reference implementation, End-to-end, At scale, and Lots of users") is a cooperative effort between Microsoft and a number of technology partners in the business intelligence (BI) industry to build on actual customer scenarios to discover best practices for creating BI applications based on SQL Server 2005.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/solutions/bi/projectreal.mspx

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SQL Server 2005 E-Learning

posted Monday, February 06, 2006 5:20 PM by gux

This is a list of SQL Server 2005 online free mini-courses (*). The whole catalog can be found at https://www.microsoftelearning.com/catalog/default.aspx

2936: Installing and Securing Microsoft SQL Server 2005
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/2936.asp

2937: Administering and Monitoring Microsoft SQL Server 2005
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/2937.asp

2938: Data Availability Features in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/2938.asp

2940: Building Services and Notifications Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/2940.asp

2941: Creating the Data Access Tier Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/2941.asp

2942: New Features of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/2942.asp

2943: Updating Your Data ETL Skills to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/2943.asp

2944: Updating Your Reporting Skills to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/2944.asp

(*) The courses are FREE until Apr. 28, but some pages say Nov. 1, 2006.

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