Last week I promised some of my students that I had an article in the works on the intricacies of SQL Server 2005/.NET 2.0 Query Notifications, both from a server implementation and client consumer point of view. Yesterday I found out that the article “shipped” to (was officially posted on) the website. You can find it […]
Bob Beauchemin
SQL Server Blog
Query Notification Article on MSDN online
Posted on: September 30, 2004 6:56 pm
Using FX assemblies outside of “the list”
Posted on: September 29, 2004 2:49 am
It turns out that you can force SQL Server to use FX libraries that are not on the approved list. Deploying user code that uses these through Visual Studio produces: Error: Assembly 'system.runtime.remoting, version=2.0.3600.0, culture=neutral, publickeytoken=b77a5c561934e089.' was not found in the SQL catalog. But that's because Visual Studio uses CREATE ASSEMBLY "from bytes", passing in […]
More about SQLCLR approved assemblies
Posted on: September 28, 2004 3:20 am
After reading Niels’ comment about the framework class library list, a quick check proved he was right, System.Runtime.Remoting.dll was not on the approved list. Adding a reference to this library (using his cool Object Browser trick) and writing a one-line stored procedure: [SqlProcedure] public static void SomeTestProc() { TcpChannel t = new TcpChannel(); } proved […]
I’m at SQLPass conference…not
Posted on: September 27, 2004 4:29 pm
My apologies to anyone who showed up at SQLPass this morning for the pre-pre-conference talks, which was supposed to include a day of SQL Server 2005 for developers given by me. If you were there, you probably noticed that I wasn’t. A storm called Hurricane Jeanne saw to that. The Orlando airport was closed from […]
SQLCLR – List of approved framework class libraries
Posted on: September 22, 2004 6:30 am
Back from vacation, drove from Ashland back to Portland Saturday, then Portland to Redmond Sunday. A lot of driving. The Michael Brundage XQuery book was even better the second reading. Joe Celko's book was excellent (what else?) also. So was OSF presentation of Henry VI, Much Ado About Nothing, and King Lear, but my favorite was […]
On the road again
Posted on: September 13, 2004 6:07 am
After a summer of being a homebody, fall and winter will be *lots* of traveling. I’ll be doing the day of SQL Server 2005 for Developers at SQLPass, as a pre-pre-conference talk (a day before the pre-conference) later this month. And Ascend 2, in at least three continents, so far. Interestingly Ascend 2 starts almost […]
I meet Angel Saenz-Badillos
Posted on: September 13, 2004 5:59 am
Thinking ahead to the SQLPass conference and also back a few weeks to the Ascend Airlift. Almost forgot that at the airlift I met Angel Saenz-Badillos for the first time in person. He introduced himself at an Ask the Experts session; I was doing the asking. He’s been writing about ADO.NET 2.0 and gave me […]
What’s all that stuff in sys.assembly_files?
Posted on: September 10, 2004 9:34 pm
I just answered this question on the "public/private" sqlclr newsgroup, but now I'm wondering myself. What IS all that stuff doing in sys.assembly_files? If you've done autodeployment of a SQLCLR assembly lately, take a gander as the metadata view sys.assembly_files. There's not only the binary assembly code and the debug symbols (pdb file) but also source code. […]
Office 2003 XML schemas and SQL Server 2005
Posted on: September 10, 2004 7:00 pm
After lots of interesting (but fruitful) experiences with the XQuery engine in SQL Server 2005, I decided that I'd rather have an XML schema collection for everything than put [1] (that's the numeric predicate meaning "item 1 using 1-based ordinals") everywhere in the XQuery that I needed a singleton. It's a good idea to use "typed XML" anyway. Dan […]
XML and SQL Server: stream, column, or string?
Posted on: September 9, 2004 4:46 pm
With the introduction of the XML data type (using an XML data model) comes there's a choice of pulling XML out of the database as a stream or column. Using an XML data type as a column type will get you a column of type XML. That's SqlXml to you in .NET. SELECT … FOR […]
HTTP Endpoints and Windows XP SP2
Posted on: September 7, 2004 5:59 am
SQL Server 2005's HTTP endpoint functionality uses http.sys, the HTTP stack in the kernel, to do it's processing. Until lately Windows Server 2003 was the only OS to implement http.sys and HTTP endpoints only worked when SQL Server 2005 ran on this OS. Windows XP SP2 shipped with http.sys and HTTP endpoints are now enabled […]
Using the data() function in XQuery
Posted on: September 6, 2004 7:49 am
Some folks have asked why I appear to use the XQuery data() function on occasion, but not always, when I'm doing demos. If you want the atomic value of an attribute, rather than the attribute node itself, data() is your friend. data() makes an atomic value from any XQuery item, but with attribute nodes it's […]
Hello, Virtual Server
Posted on: September 6, 2004 6:34 am
After getting a laptop with enough power this summer, I’d taken a week or so to familiarize myself with Virtual PC. Using it is a great way to run multiple versions of operating systems and databases for testing. It only took a day to realize that a mere 768meg of memory wasn’t going to be […]
