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June 2006
June 29, 2006
Sequential IDs -- Security and Performance
In a recent SQL Junkies article Rob Garrison took a look SQL Server 2005 method for creating sequential IDs with the uniqueness benefits of GUIDs: Exploring NewSequentialID() in SQL Server 2005 (RTM). Rob has some interesting advice on the security implications of NEWSEQUENTIALID() as well as the performance characteristics as copared to bigint IDENTITY.
Posted by John Dorsey at 03:03 AM Permalink
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June 20, 2006
Robotics Group and SDK Unveiled
The previously under-wraps Microsoft Robotics Group has released a free preview of the Microsoft Robotics Studio. The free SDK can write apps for robot platforms such as Mindstorms, Pioneer, and others. It’s not just a hobbyist platform; it's aimed at industrial robotics as well. Using the SDK, you can build distributed apps running on swarms of web-enabled robots that report back to a server handling most of the heavy computation. The possible applications make the figurative and literal gears start whirring.
Posted by John Dorsey at 08:39 PM Permalink
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June 13, 2006
Letters from Boston
DDJ Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Erickson is providing lots of interesting news from TechEd 2006, including the Q&A style keynote with Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie, and coverage of Microsoft's various Community Technology Preview software releases including SQL Server Everywhere, the Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals and the Visual Studio Tools for Office Cypress plug-in. Jon will have updates throughout the show.
Posted by John Dorsey at 06:08 PM Permalink
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