I'm on linked in, but just use it as an address book to keep up with people. It doesn't take too much time. As far as facebook and...

Just in case someone's looking to install.. The best bet is to use the appropriate package manage rather than the manual install described a few posts earlier. For...

I'm sorta amazed that this thread hasn't become a religious war...

You can use both innodb and MyIsam for very large datasets. In fact, a lot of the most popular...

On this topic, I would have to highly recommend Dave Ramsey (www.daveramsey.com). While some people may see him as a little "old-fashioned" or no "sophisticated", if you actually follow...

This is really not meant to be flamebait at all. I think the ideas of trying to foster more open development and community are great. However, It seems...

I'm just sitting here wondering if this product is more like the MySQL Grid than Oracle RAC. MySQL Grid has multiple nodes but also distributes the data round redundant...

Maybe I'm missing something but if there is not one central database doesn't SQL...

I actually think this deal made Microsoft only look desperate. The technical side of the merger would be a nightmare experience where you would probably loose most all of...

Considering it's only named pipes and only SQL Server, it now really makes it look like this was designed for quick and dirty apps (i.e. my RAD comments) and that...

sfrabotta (4/24/2008)

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The claim that LINQ saves 1/3 of the development time is inaccurate, since writing CRUD stored procedures is a no-brainer that takes very little time and can be automated...

If they really want to toss relational design, tell them they need an object database.

Then tell them when they find one that can perform as quickly as Oracle/SQL...

Speaking as one who's normally on the developer side of this question, but also does some database development, I don't think ORM has to be as scary as it seems....

Grant Fritchey (4/22/2008)

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EXCELLENT! Do you have links to documentation showing large scale systems using it and any long term uses, case studies, anything. I've been doing searches and I just...

Grant Fritchey (4/22/2008)

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EXCELLENT! Do you have links to documentation showing large scale systems using it and any long term uses, case studies, anything. I've been doing searches and I just...

As a developer I don't find linq compelling at all. It seems like a step in the wrong direction. First, it tries to take data access concepts and...