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January 2009 - Posts

• LiveFX: Mesh and Live Framework clients can now run side-by-side

  Useful information emerged overnight for anyone that is using the Live Framework to build Mesh Enabled Web Applications. Using a simple registry hack it is now possible to run the Live Framework tech preview client and the Live Mesh beta client side-by-side Read More... Posted 29 January 2009 09:13 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: Live Mesh, Live Framework

• SQL Server code repository on Live Mesh

  Those who know me may be aware that as well as my obvious interest in SQL Server I also have a very keen interest in Windows Live and specifically in Live Mesh , an incubation technology from Microsoft that synchronises data between different devices Read More... Posted 20 January 2009 22:05 by jamie.thomson | 8 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, T-SQL, Live Mesh, sqlmesh

• The perils of staticly-typed languages and schema-less data stores

  Many moons ago I wrote a blog entry MDM -> Entity Framework -> ADO.Net Data Services. Better together? where I opined about the inherent problems of using staticly-typed programming languages (such as C#) to interact with schema-less data stores. Read More... Posted 14 January 2009 19:35 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: cloud computing, powershell, SDS, SQL Data Services, Azure Services Platform, sds-sh

• Cerebrata release Omega.SDSClient built in Silverlight : SDS

  You may have noticed of late that I'm spending quite a lot of time talking about and exploring SQL Data Services (SDS); today that work got a lot easier with Cerebrata's release of their "Omega" client for SDS. I've never heard of these guys before but Read More... Posted 08 January 2009 11:34 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: SDS, SQL Data Services, azure, SQL Azure

• Encountered a fatal error during reverse engineer of information from the database (Oracle to Visio) - fixed

  Quick one this. Today I've been attempting to reverse engineer some database objects from an Oracle 10G server into Microsoft Visio 2003 but it was failing with this rather nasty and useless error message: As with many such problems the cause of this Read More... Posted 07 January 2009 11:48 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Oracle, visio