I am really excited about some of the new features in ADO.NET 2. I posted here last month [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/john.papa/archive/2005/03/30/ADO_NET_2_DataTable_Merge.aspx] regarding how the ADO.NET 2 DataTable class will expose a Merge method (woo hoo!). I found this very useful when I h

The July 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/07/default.aspx] is now available online. The amount of discussion that has surrounded the Enterprise Library and its Application Blocks (good, bad and indifferent) has been tremendous. I decided to create a 3 part ser

Tom Hollander [http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/default.aspx], Product Manager of Enterprise Library, announced [http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/archive/2005/04/08/406743.aspx] that a new patch is out for Ent Lib. It patches a memory leak in the Enterprise Library Configuration Application Block, which i

The July 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/07/default.aspx] is now available online. The amount of discussion that has surrounded the Enterprise Library and its Application Blocks (good, bad and indifferent) has been tremendous. I decided to create a 3 part ser

OK, so this isn’t rocket science, but then again some of the best things are the simplest. You can do a lot with the information_schema views in SQL Server. Here is a short stored procedure that you can use to find: * a table by its full name * a table by partial name * a column by its full