HTTP Endpoints in SQL Server 2005 are normally a way to support SQL Server clients that speak the SOAP protocol. It turns out that, although the HTTP endpoint requires a SOAP request, the response need not necessarily be SOAP or even XML. You can return something other than the vanilla document-literal SOAP format; the way […]
Bob Beauchemin
SQL Server Blog
HTTP Endpoints and FORMAT=NONE
Posted on: December 31, 2004 10:22 pm
New functions to use with try-catch
Posted on: December 29, 2004 7:27 am
I'm still assimilating little tidbits of information about the Nov-Dec CTP build. Put this one in your pubs database in the CTP: create procedure deletejob (@id int) as begin try delete jobs where job_id = @id end try begin catch — you knew about these print error_number() print error_message() print error_severity() print error_state() — these are […]
Autocomplete in VS 2005
Posted on: December 24, 2004 6:55 am
I’ve been using Visual Studio 2005 for over a year, since before the alpha version came out. Recently, I’ve had occasion to use VS 2003 and confirm what I thought I’d noticed. At first I thought it was an “alpha anomaly” that would be fixed, now I’m not sure. Has anyone else noticed the autocomplete is […]
Merging SqlClient and SqlServer providers
Posted on: December 20, 2004 6:43 am
It turns out that the week before last, the SQL Server and ADO.NET teams (they may be part of the same team) made public the decision to merge the SqlClient data provider and in-proc SqlServer provider code into a single provider. Details are sketchy currently, but the reasoning behind this is that it's easier for […]
Night of the Service Broker…and Announcement
Posted on: December 19, 2004 8:22 am
One of the most amazing things that happened at the class last week was Wednesday night, when Dan Sullivan and the SQL Server Service Broker team did “Night of the Service Broker”. Dan did a couple of back-to-back broker talks. Then, the entire SQL Service Broker team, lead by Gerald Hinson and Roger Wolter, participated […]
SqlContext syntactic changes
Posted on: December 7, 2004 4:19 am
Syntactic changes are coming to the SQL Server in-proc provider. Compiling a stored procedure with the latest Dec CTP bits yielded the following message every time I used a method that started with "Get" from SqlContext: warning CS0618: 'System.Data.SqlServer.SqlContext.GetPipe()' is obsolete: 'Will be removed soon' Looking further with Reflector, it appears that SqlContext will now […]
Another improvement in Dec CTP
Posted on: December 5, 2004 10:40 pm
Another little thing I'd found had changed in Dec CTP. I'd reported a bug on this one and knew it was gonna be fixed eventually, but better sooner than later. I came up when Dan Sullivan suggested his "universal web service" based on SQL Server's XML data type and XML Schema Collections. Here's the prototype: […]
Using inheritence in SQLCLR UDTs
Posted on: December 5, 2004 10:16 pm
I answered a question on the newsgroups on how *exactly* inheritence works when you use it implement UDTs in SQL Server 2005. Also wanted to record the explanation here…. It doesn't work like you'd expect inheritence to when to use T-SQL, because SQL Server is blissfully unaware of the inheritence relationships (they're not recorded in […]
A First Look at Dec CTP
Posted on: December 3, 2004 7:12 pm
OK, I couldn't help myself. The Dec 2004 CTP-specific readme had quite a number of things that are new. There are many improvements in SSIS, for example. The “real“ readme and the known issues file (sqlki.chm) still have July dates on them. But there are always a few little things I have queued up to try with a […]
Schemas, Users, and Objects – III
Posted on: December 3, 2004 6:18 pm
Now, back to our regularly scheduled technical content. About schemas, users, and owners. Although Ed originally created the table, since Fred is the schema owner, Fred owns to table. Ed can get ownership of the table in either of two ways. 1. Someone with authority can alter the table's owner 2. Someone with authority can […]
SQL Server December CTP available
Posted on: December 3, 2004 5:47 pm
I’m probably about the hundredth person to notice this and blog about it, but I’m not usually at home when these things happen. Thought I’d take the opportunity. The SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview – Dec edition is available on MSDN subscriptions site The Express Manager tool (free tool for management of SQL Express) is also […]
Schemas, Users, and Objects – II
Posted on: December 2, 2004 7:00 pm
The code for the answer is below. Greg Low is, of course, correct. Fred owns the table, but he owns it by virtue of being the schema owner. Now here's part 2. Do the following: 1. Alter the authorization on Ed's table so that it is owned by Ed. (Interesting aside, can Ed do […]
Schemas, Users, and Objects – I
Posted on: December 2, 2004 7:43 am
UI can't stay away from the separation and users and schemas feature. I want to make sure I have it cold, and following up on information I got from Girish Chandler's talk at Win-Dev, I did the following experiement. Posted in the form of a multi-part puzzle. Answer to the first part (with code) tomorrow. […]
