July 2012 - Posts

• Dangers of time travel

  I tend to partition StreamInsight operators into three classes: the basic “temporal/relational” operators; the “time travel” operators, and; the “elephant” operators. The basic operators illustrate the rules. The time travel operators bend the rules. Read More... Posted Monday, July 16, 2012 6:00 PM by Roman Schindlauer | 0 Comments

• StreamInsight 2.1, meet LINQ

  Someone recently called LINQ “magic” in my hearing. I leapt to LINQ’s defense immediately. Turns out some people don’t realize “magic” is can be a pejorative term. I thought LINQ needed demystification. Here’s your best demystification resource: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mattwar/archive/2008/11/18/linq-links.aspx Read More... Posted Monday, July 09, 2012 8:17 PM by Roman Schindlauer | 0 Comments

• Taming Hopping Windows

  At first glance, hopping windows seem fairly innocuous and obvious. They organize events into windows with a simple periodic definition: the windows have some duration d (e.g. a window covers 5 second time intervals), an interval or period p (e.g. a new Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 03, 2012 6:03 PM by Roman Schindlauer | 0 Comments Filed under: LINQ, Time