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March 2005 - Posts

• Strange Behaviour of BizTalk 2004 XPath Expressions

  I've just been working on a problem with an XPath expression in an orchestration and thought its strangeness warranted a Blog - just to see if anyone else had come across it and to make other people aware of it really. What I am trying to do is check Read More... Posted 08 March 2005 09:55 by dave.morris | 0 Comments

• Scalar User Defined Functions and Computed Columns

  Came across an interesting SQL problem where a customer has a table with a primary key and X numerical fields. For each record the maximum value in these X fields was needed. The issue was how to accomplish this efficiently? Or more accurately the least Read More... Posted 07 March 2005 15:40 by dave.morris | 3 Comments

• WFA and BizTalk 2004

  It's well documented by many observers (and readily admitted by Microsoft) that Human Workflow Services (HWS) within BizTalk 2004 is not really up to the job for anything other than the most simple Workflow Automation (WFA) scenarios. Looking at the roadmap Read More... Posted 04 March 2005 15:03 by dave.morris | 0 Comments