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SQL Server Compact books
A number of SQL Compact (or a least SQL Compact related) books have appeared on the market. I will attempt to keep this list of books up to date as new material appears. “Building Standalone...
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SQL Server Compact 4.0 under ASP.NET Hosting– common issues
This blog post covers some of the issues that can be encountered when using SQL Server Compact under ASP.NET, in particular in a hosted environment, where the environment can be restricted in...
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SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.5–Visual Guide of new features
After more than 66.000 downloads, version 2.5 of my SQL Server Compact Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2010 is now available for download. This blog post is a visual guide to the new features...
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SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 now supports Merge Replication with SQL Server 2012
A major update to SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 has just been released, version 3.5.8088.0, disguised as a “Cumulative Update Package”. Microsoft knowledgebase article 2628887 describes the update. The...
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SQL Compact 3rd party tools
This is an attempt at a comprehensive list of SQL Server Compact 3rd party tools, both commercial and non-commercial. Please let me know if I have missed anything, and I will add it. Just to summarize,...
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Windows Phone Local Database tip: Viewing the SQL generated by LINQ to SQL
It may sometimes by useful to be able to see the SQL statements generated by an ORM, in order to understand better what is going on, and why things perform the way they do. With LINQ to SQL on desktop,...
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Windows Phone Local Database tip: Batch INSERT performance
You could imagine a scenario, where one of the tables in your local database need to be periodically updated. For Windows Phone Local Database, there is no support for Sync Framework or similar...
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Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring INSERT performance–5 power tweaks
Josué Yeray Julián, (blog in Spanish here), has done some interesting tests on INSERT performance, both on the emulator (like I started doing in my previous blog post) and on two real devices, an HTC...
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CSV to SQL Server Compact scripting utility
My SSMS and Visual Studio add-ins for SQL Server Compact includes the option to import CSV files. But this GUI based feature does not work so well with larger CSV files, as the generated INSERT script...
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SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.6–Visual Guide of new features
After more than 80.000 downloads, version 2.6 of my SQL Server Compact Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2010 is now available for download. This blog post is a visual guide to the new features...
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Generating a LINQ to SQL DataContext for VS Express for Windows Phone
As you may know, you can generate a Windows Phone DataContext based on an existing database for use with Windows Phone Mango “Local Database”, as described here and here. But this feature is only...
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Windows Phone Local Database tip: Initializing the database
There are several options for initializing the database for Window Phone, depending on your approach. By “initializing” I mean preparing the database for first use, just after the application has ben...
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Review of “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook”
The “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook” is a collection of more that 30 so-called recipes for working with with data in Windows Phone 7.5 applications. It covers all data related tasks from UI data...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Merge Replication hotfixes
It seems that the recent Cumulative Update 4 to SQL Server 2008 R2 contains a couple of essential hotfixes, if you are using Merge Replication with SQL Server Compact 3.5 against a SQL Server 2008 R2...
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Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring multiple UPDATEs and rowversion...
According to the Local Database best practices, it is recommended to use a rowversion column in your local database table, if you are performing many updates. This blog post will examine the...
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Migrating databases between SQL Server and SQL Server Compact
In this post, I will try to give an overview of the free tools available for developers to move databases from SQL Server to SQL Server Compact and vice versa. I will also show how you can do this with...
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SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 CTP1 available
(Nice short name!) SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 CTP1 is now available for download: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29037 – is is also installed with Visual Studio 11 Ultimate beta....
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Windows Phone Local Database tip: Working with encrypted database files
SQL Server Compact on Windows Phone supports encryption of the database file. By specifying a password on the ConnectionString during encryption and subsequent openings, the contents of the database...
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SQL Server Compact Toolbox hits 100.000 downloads–new release planned
My SQL Server Compact Toolbox add-in for Visual Studio 2010 and 11 beta has now had more than 100.000 downloads. (Actually, more than 105.000, but who’s counting.) Thanks to all the users of this tool,...
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Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring DELETE performance and a “Bug Alert”
In the previous instalments in this series of Windows Phone Local Database tips, I have been exploring SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, CREATE DATABASE and Encryption. Now the time has come to have a closer...
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