{"id":1051,"date":"2004-07-28T06:59:28","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T06:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/bobb\/post\/My-20-favorite-beta-2-developer-features-so-far.aspx"},"modified":"2004-07-28T06:59:28","modified_gmt":"2004-07-28T06:59:28","slug":"my-20-favorite-beta-2-developer-features-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/bobb\/my-20-favorite-beta-2-developer-features-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"My 20 favorite beta 2 developer features so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I started my career as a maintanance programmer, and spent a lot of time searching out and fixing bugs, in existing code and&nbsp;also introduced by required program maintanance. Sometimes at 3am, with a hard deadline for the fix. I believe it shows in the way I present technologies (as in, &#8220;these are the intricate details, here&#8217;s the gotchas&#8221;). Sometimes this way of approaching things comes across as negative, its really just meant to save you a few hours in your middle of the night maintanance\/research.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>So this might sound a little out a bit out of character, but I must give you the&nbsp;brief list of my 20 favorite new beta 2&nbsp;developer features so far. These are in no particular order, off the top of my head, and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m leaving some out. Doesn&#8217;t even touch things like DTS,&nbsp;RMO, database admin, and data mining stuff. And some were in Beta1, but vastly improved for Beta2. Check em out.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>1. Statement level snapshot syntax changes from trace flag to ALTER DATABASE&#8230;SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT ON.<BR>2. XML SCHEMA COLLECTIONS replace CREATE XML SCHEMA (and DOCUMENT\/CONTENT keyword)<BR>3. Secret\/key storage (CREATE MASTER KEY, etc)<BR>4. Support of transactions by System.Data.SqlServer<BR>5. Integration of CLR attributes like SqlFunc\/SqlFunction<BR>5. Widening of the ENDPOINT concept (see CREATE ENDPOINT)<BR>6. FOR XML PATH<BR>7. XQuery update to Nov 2003 alignment<BR>8. Improvements in TSQL TRY-CATCH <BR>9. RANKING and PARTITIONING functions<BR>10. The new metadata (sys.everything) &#8211; more improvements<BR>11. FOR XML &#8230; ROOT(). (Hooray)<BR>12. Service Broker routing, protocol,&nbsp;and security changes<BR>13. XML INDEXES improvements and granularity<BR>14. Additions to HTTP ENDPOINT support, sessions, transactions, etc<BR>15. The new &#8220;virtual tables&#8221; (dynamic metadata info)<BR>16. TSQL Encryption Functions<BR>17. &#8220;ValidationMethodName&#8221; attribute property in UDTs<BR>18. EXECUTE AS USER= (or LOGIN=)&nbsp;statement as a replacement\/extension for SETUSER<BR>19. Dynamic WSDL generation hook in ENDPOINTs FOR HTTP<BR>20. Promotable transactions<\/P><br \/>\n<P>At the risk of sounding syncophantic&#8230;WOW.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started my career as a maintanance programmer, and spent a lot of time searching out and fixing bugs, in existing code and&nbsp;also introduced by required program maintanance. Sometimes at 3am, with a hard deadline for the fix. 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