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SubSonic of the Day - They Query Tool

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:16:04 GMT

By now, you have probably heard of LINQ. LINQ, as you probably know, stands for Language Integrated Query. The LINQ queries you build inside of C# or VB are baked into the .NET 3.5 framework. SubSonic takes a more traditional approach (right now) and uses the Query as an object. Instead of doing weird things like var myQ = from.... and Dim myQ = Select..... you create an object and manipulate a query rather than have a language do the querying for you.

EntitySpaces Adds Joins and Arithmetic Expressions

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:46:01 GMT

The EntitySpaces Dynamic Query API will soon be sporting Join's and Arithmetic Expressions. The syntax is so elegant even LINQ enthusiasts will take pause. Let's take a look at how you would do a join using the enhanced EntitySpaces DynamicQuery. Note that we are using all of your existing objects to build the query.

SubSonic: New Query Engine In The Works

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:16:02 GMT

"Currently our Query tool is very useful, but it's sort of disconnected from the rest of the SubSonic Data tools. We're going to change all that with this next rev, and our goal is that you can intuitively work with the new Query tool as an extension of your object model if you like, or as a standalone querier."

Strongly Typed Stored Procedures Using Subsonic

Wed, 30 May 2007 08:46:01 GMT

In general, Subsonic is most productive when combining its code generation with its dynamic query engine and Active Record. But sometimes, your stuck with Stored Procedures and want to make the best of it. Subsonic, via the sonic.exe command line tool, can generate strongly typed stored procedure wrappers saving you from writing a lot of boilerplate code.

SubSonic: Query Webcast Is Up

Thu, 10 May 2007 09:31:01 GMT

A 20 minute webcast that talks about the enhancements to the Query Tool.

Query and join tables across db server instances

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:01:01 GMT

Sometimes you need to query across servers, even servers of different type such as doing a table join from MySQL to Oracle. I'm going to show you two ways you could do this if you have access to an SQL Server. There are ways to do this with other servers, and there are more than two ways to do this in SQL Server, but I'm only covering two methods both using SQL Server here.