SQL

Learning LINQ - No excuses

Shawn Cicoria — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:59:30 GMT

There are really a whole bunch of great resources out there that help the community get up & running with LINQ.

Personally, with all the additional providers that I've seen (Qak Leaf List) - several of which I see great use for - LINQ to SharePoint and LINQ to LDAP / LINQ for AD.

In regards to tools, LINQ Pad is the tool that allows you to toil with the syntax, etc.

LINQ Pad

And now, here's a good 100+ pages on LINQ syntax in C# 3.0.

Book Preview: C# Query Expressions and Supporting Features in C# 3.0

All of this is free!!!

Extract DDL and Data - SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard

Shawn Cicoria — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:47:29 GMT

Here's a tool that completely slipped by me. I've been using ApexSQL for generation of SQL scripts for creating schema and data.

Turns out, during the Visual Studio 2008 installation I see "SQL Publishing Wizard" pop up on the list.

This tool, can extract schema and data and create a SQL script.

Download details: SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard 1.1

Query SQL (or any LINQ Provider) Using LINQPad...

Shawn Cicoria — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:46:10 GMT

Here's a cool tool that provides an interactive LINQ environment that you can use to develop queries against LINQ sources (SQL, Objects, XML, etc.).

If you're working with LINQ and need an environment that supports both expression and language statements in C# or VB.NET, this tool can handle both. The below shot is using C# statements.

A few bonus items included:

1. provides a view of both the resulting SQL and Lambda expressions used in the query.

2. Provides SQL execution as well

3. A whole bunch of samples for learning LINQ

http://www.linqpad.net/

Conceivably, you could leverage this in place of SQL Management Studio or for those still stuck on 2K, Query Analyzer....

How to get a list of SQL Procedures, Functions, Views that have recently change?

Shawn Cicoria — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:57:39 GMT

Today, I needed a quick view of what objects in a SQL DB had changed. The following get's me that in a nice list:

SELECT [name], [type], create_date, modify_date
FROM sys.objects
WHERE [type] in ('P', 'FN', 'V') 
order by Modify_Date desc