June 2008 - Posts

• Sample chapters from Programming LINQ

  Two sample chapters of my Programming Microsoft LINQ book are finally available. Links to download pages in the chapters title. Chapter 6 - Tools for LINQ to SQL In this chapter, we took a look at the tools that are available to generate LINQ to SQL entities Read More... Posted Saturday, June 21, 2008 6:46 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments

• To join or not to join: that is the question (in LINQ)

  A comment received by one reader of Programming LINQ suggested me to underline a concept that is not so intuitive using LINQ, especially if you come from years of SQL coding. The idea is very simple. Two entities in LINQ might be related in the model. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:53 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ

• Great video resource to learn Data Mining

  I worked on Data Mining solutions years before Microsoft added it to Analysis Services. It is an interesting domain for everyone, but it becomes really hard to explain how it works when you scratch the surface. At the last TechEd Developers I watched Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 1:58 AM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 2 Comments Filed under: Data Mining

• What means writing a book

  I and Paolo Pialorsi have been interviewed at TechEd by Ken Rosen. We talked about our experience as book authors of Programming LINQ . If you are interested in writing a book, or if you simply want to see our faces and hear our italian accent, you can Read More... Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:55 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: Book

• TechEd 2008 book

  I'm already in Orlando for TechEd 2008 Developers . Tomorrow I and Paolo Pialorsi will be at the TechEd bookshop for a book signing of our just released Programming Microsoft LINQ , scheduled at 4:00PM-4:30PM. I wrote a post a few days a go with the list Read More... Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 4:27 PM by Marco Russo (SQLBI) | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ