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Using F# in SQLCLR

Recently I have become very interested in F# and I am at the moment trying to get to grips with it. It is definitely a different beast than C#, but so far I like it - a lot!

Anyway, I am a SQL nerd, and many moons ago I was very heavily involved in SQLCLR (for you who don’t know what that is; it is the ability to run .NET code inside the SQL Server engine. It was first introduced with SQL Server 2005). So I thought it would be a “giggle” to see if I could get some F# code running inside SQL Server.

Posted by nielsb on Monday, November 15, 2010

SQL Server Denali CTP 1 SUX

.. from a relational developers perspective!!

Well, the title may be a bit harsh, but at least it grabbed your attention - did it not?!

A week ago, or so, I wrote a wish list to Santa for Denali from a relational developers perspective. In that wish list I wrote that there has been fairly little love for relational SQL developers in the recent versions of SQL Server, and that I hoped in this version (i.e Denali) Microsoft would “go back to the roots” and give us developers some new stuff.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 14, 2010

Beginners F# Resources

This post is more as a reminder to myself where to find online resources when learning F#. If anyone else can find it useful, so much better. And, if anyone out there has other online, resources, please leave a comment and I will include it. So, in no particular order:

Finally, a list like this would be incomplete without the link to the Man himself: Don Syme

Posted by nielsb on Saturday, November 13, 2010

More T-SQL Error Functionality in Denali / SQL 11

In my previous post I wrote about the new THROW keyword in Denali / SQL 11. Having played around a bit more with Denali, I wanted to write some additional things about THROW and it’s relation to RAISERROR.

Posted by nielsb on Friday, November 12, 2010

New T-SQL Features in SQL 11 / Denali - Error Handling

A couple of days ago I wrote my wish-list to Santa what I wanted to see in next version of SQL Server (SQL 11 / Denali). I was pleasantly surprised that I could find out for myself shortly after; i.e. SQL Server Denali CTP1 was released during the PASS Summit. I have literally finished installing the next version of SQL Server (Denali / SQL 11) on a new VM, like 10 minutes ago, and I have done a quick check of the new features of SQL Server Denali (what I could find at least) against my wish-list.

Posted by nielsb on Wednesday, November 10, 2010

More about new features in SQL 11 / Denali

So yesterday I posted my wish-list for new programmability features in the upcoming release of SQL 11 / Denali.

Today I see that Simon S has posted about a new series of posts he will do, covering what is new in SQL 11. Knowing Simon, it will be really, really good. So if you are interested I suggest you keep your eyes open for his posts.

UPDATE: Ben C commented and said that CTP1 has been released (or something to that effect), and here is where it can be downloaded from.

Posted by nielsb on Monday, November 8, 2010

What New Programmability Features Will There Be in SQL 11?

There is probably no secret that Microsoft is working hard on next version of SQL Server. The rumour has it that it will be named SQL 11 (it apparently goes under the code name of Denali. Quiz; MS has used the Denali code name previously, what was it for? Answers in the comments ).

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 7, 2010

Stream and Complex Event Processing from a Relational Guy's Eye

This is a re-post from my previous blog. However, as that blog has now gone to the big blog repository in the sky (or wherever blogs go to when they are no more), I decided to repost this, seeing how CEP and StreamInsight are becoming more and more popular.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 7, 2010

SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP

Yesterday I downloaded and installed the August CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2, and today I played around with it for a while. So, what are my impressions?

Posted by nielsb on Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Twitter

As the saying goes; “It is hard to learn an old dog new tricks”, but… Even though I am a really old dog, I hope I’ll be able to learn a bit about “social networking”, and therefore I created an account on Twitter a couple of days ago. Hopefully I’ll be able to be more active on Twitter than what I’ve been here at the blog. Well, that should not be too hard, seeing how infrequent I post here.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 9, 2009