Comments for Lenni Lobel on SQL Server and .NET Development

Comment on Understanding Generic Delegates and Lambda Expressions with LINQ Extension Methods by Ben Millane

Ben Millane — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:47:40 +0000

This article is what the coding community needs more of. Especially the younger community like myself. The biggest hurdle I face as a self taught programmer is that all the best information out there is for the more modern frameworks/syntax(sugar/new features)/patterns and abstractions in general. The problem is, developers like myself who don’t just want to accept the “use the MVC pattern because it’s good” but instead want to understand why it’s good and how it works underneath all the sugar and patterns and abstraction layers placed on top to make it easier and quicker to use and develop with, struggle to obtain this information (entity framework vs original ADO.NET is a good example of something else I’ve struggled with.)

As these abstraction layers move further away from the core concepts they attempt to “improve” or “hide”, fledgling developers risk getting lost in all all this top level abstraction and failing to grasp and understand what exactly it is that they are doing. This leads to people not understanding code and not being able to think outside the box to solve unusual problems.

Rant over, thank you for this.

Comment on SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM Part 3 of 3: Using the OpenSqlFilestream API by Joe

Joe — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:52:05 +0000

This is a great article. Thanks.

I’m trying to server several image/video files out of SQL Server using FileStream, to an MVC4 application. All the examples I’ve found show how to get “one” file. Is there a way to get multiple files at once? I really don’t want to have to open the connection and create a transaction for each image/video

Comment on Book Announcement! Windows Azure SQL Database – Step By Step by Leonard Lobel

Leonard Lobel — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:32:04 +0000

Thanks Simon, for all your positive energy and support, as always!

Comment on Book Announcement! Windows Azure SQL Database – Step By Step by Simon Tien

Simon Tien — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:51:28 +0000

Great Book to come… I just know it! Thank you for making it available for us! Simon

Comment on Using SqlFileStream in C# to Access SQL Server FILESTREAM Data by E

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:13:27 +0000

Thank you for your quick response. The configuration part is ok, I’m able to access FILESTREAM data successfully from outside my SQL CLR UDF. I’ve also tried native OpenSqlFilestream directly, but got an invalid handle and same “The request is not supported” (ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED) from GetLastWin32Error.

Comment on Using SqlFileStream in C# to Access SQL Server FILESTREAM Data by Leonard Lobel

Leonard Lobel — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:23:39 +0000

Are you sure FILESTREAM is configured in SQL and the OS? What’s the Run Value for the sp_configure option? If run value is zero, you’ll need to enable FILESTREAM in the SQL Config Manager.

Comment on Using SqlFileStream in C# to Access SQL Server FILESTREAM Data by E

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:07:24 +0000

Leonard, do you happen to know if it’s possible to stream FILESTREAM from inside SQLCLR code? (Windows authenticated connection string, of course). I’m getting “The request is not supported” when creating a new SqlFileStream (exception comes from underlying OpenSqlFileStream).

Comment on WCF Data Services vs. WCF RIA Services – Making the Right Choice by Derek Goslin

Derek Goslin — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:42:47 +0000

Excellent overview of the differenes

Comment on SQL Server 2008 Table-Valued Parameters and C# Custom Iterators: A Match Made In Heaven! by Leonard Lobel

Leonard Lobel — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:15:17 +0000

That’s what I like to hear!

Comment on WCF Data Services vs. WCF RIA Services – Making the Right Choice by Leonard Lobel

Leonard Lobel — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:14:49 +0000

Glad you liked it!