Sunday, March 27, 2005 - Posts
Then what are you waiting for? Go apply at HDR! There's an opening for my former position now on-line.
And no, I'm not kidding. HDR has been a great company for me to grow with and I think it could be an ideal place for many of the folks I know. If you like working with a great group of smart, friendly and caring folks on interesting projects that make a difference to the enterprise, this is a great opportunity.
So it is no big secret that I'm a big fan of Bob for a lot of reasons, but that aside, if your not reading his blog on a regular basis, you're missing out. Since he's had a couple of days out of the class room, Bob's posted a number of things that affect all of use Yukon users. Here's an example:
- Here's a post that refers to Pablo Castro's posting on the unification of SqlServer and SqlClient namespaces. Technically, I'm okay with the idea, but psychologically, I still wish they were two different namespaces.
- Here's some discussion of the updates to DROP ASSEMBLY. One thing that I've seen folks struggling with is chained assembly getting loaded into SQL Server, so this really is an improvement.
- Finally, a week ago in the SQLCLR newsgroup, I said that J# isn't a supported language for building objects and pretty much left an answer at that. Turns out while my answer was right, what unsupported really means isn't exactly what you might expect it to mean. That said, because you essentially have to register such an assembly as UNSAFE to use it (regardless of how safe it may or may not be), I still don't recommend going down the J# if its possible to achieve the same result easily with a support language like C#.
- Bob also details some developer productivity enhancements to Service Broker. I really like the default ideas -- should make programming against the SSB that much easier. The poison message handling stuff is cool too and its certainly something you'll want to keep in mind.
In the last week, it feels like I've had to delete over 100 spammy comments and since I'm going to away from the computer for most of the next week, I'm left with little choice but to turn comments off again. Sorry about that guys. Hopefully things will considerably improve when Donny and Doug get done with the Community Server Upgrade.