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Prepare for SQL Server Everywhere Edition
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This article introduces SQL Server Everywhere Edition, a slimmed-down version of SQL Mobile. SQL Everywhere removes the restrictions that keep the SQL Mobile product from running on a desktop or laptop, making SQL Everywhere the ideal, lightweight database for many scenarios. Read it here ...
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ADO.NET vNext CTP - August
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This package is the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of ADO.NET vNext and includes the preview build of the ADO.NET Entity Framework along with samples and whitepapers. The ADO.NET Entity Framework supports Object Relational Mapping scenarios using ADO.NET Entities, in this build you can:
- Query of persistent Entities using LINQ to Entities or Entity SQL
- Save new and dirtied entity instances through the object abstractions which also handle
o State management
o Identity resolution
o Change tracking
- Work with persistent object graphs and leverage a programming and query model where relationships are a first class concept
- Use optimistic concurrency and server generated values with persistent entities
- Program against persistent entities as values using the new Map Provider
- Get first hand experience with Entities and the Entity Data Model
- Work with mappings based on view maintenance concepts to support
o Entity Splitting (entities split across multiple tables)
o Table Per Hierarchy, Table Per Class and Table Per Type mappings
o Property renaming
o Conditional mappings
Get it here …
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Unicode 5.0 is out there
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Version 5.0.0 of the Unicode Standard consists of the publication The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 plus the Unicode Character Database, Version 5.0.0. This gives the general principles, requirements for conformance, and guidelines for implementers, followed by character code charts and names and the text of all of the Unicode Standard Annexes. Details are here.