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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Did You Know? How to tell if a bug has been fixed?

by Kalen Delaney via Kalen Delaney on 4/22/2009 6:31:00 PM

Maybe I should change the topic to "Do you know?". "Did you know" seems to imply that _I_ actually know the answer.  It seems very tricky to know for sure if a bug has been fixed, unless you have an actual bug number from Microsoft. If you have a bug numnber, you can check the list of fixes in the KB article that contains the list of fixes. But even then, there are no guarantees. The list seems to only include bugs and fixes for which a KB article has been written.  For example, http:/ ...

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SSWUG.ORG Spring vConference

by David L. Penton via The Penton-izer on 4/22/2009 1:06:56 PM

Yes, I am speaking at the SSWUG.ORG Spring vConference.  I am in the .NET Development vConference and have 3 talks - Microsoft "Velocity", A New Approach to HttpRuntime.Cache, and finally Thread Safety Through Self-Loading Collections.  If you want to register for the vConference, all of the talks will re-run this evening.  Go to the site and use my VIP code SPVDPESP09 for $10 off the conference. There are many great talks, from .Net and Sharepoint to SQL and BI.  ...

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DBMS transparency layers never seem to sell well

by Curt Monash via DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services on 4/22/2009 7:23:59 AM

A DBMS transparency layer, roughly speaking, is software that makes things that are written for one brand of database management system run unaltered on another.* These never seem to sell well. ANTs has failed in a couple of product strategies. EnterpriseDB’s Oracle compatibility only seems to have netted it a few sales, and only [...] ...

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MySQL miscellany

by Curt Monash via DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services on 4/22/2009 6:04:46 AM

For a guy who doesn’t go to the MySQL conference and routinely gets flamed by the MySQL community for being insufficiently adoring of their beloved product, I sure have been putting up a lot of MySQL-related posts recently. Here’s another, zooming through a few different topics. MySQL 5.4 was announced this week.  The highlights seem to [...] ...

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