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I have used NHibernate for some time now but have recently started to reengage with Microsoft’s Entity Framework. I came across Julie Lerman’s course Entity Framework in the Enterprise on Pluralsight. This is an interesting course and deals with Repositories and the Unit of Work pattern, two concepts I have used extensively with NHibernate. But Julie also deals with a DDD concept – the Bounded Context. It’s been a while since I’ve dealt with DDD so I thought I’d spend some time re-familiarising...

This post really just for me. You may get something from it but don’t expect very much! It’s been a while since I visited SQL Server indexing fundamentals so I thought I’d do a bit of revision and this post is really just my notes. Pages “The fundamental unit of data storage in SQL Server is the page. The disk space allocated to a data file (.mdf or .ndf) in a database is logically divided into pages numbered contiguously from 0 to n. Disk I/O operations are performed at the page level. That...

I recently came across 2 fantastic resources for understanding and implementing the essentials of maintaining SQL Server databases. The Accidental DBA As a software developer you often encounter situations where you become the DBA whether you want to or not. It is not uncommon to be working in an environment where there is no dedicated DBA but the applications under development rely on SQL Server as a back-end data store. So, what do you need to know to keep the SQL Server database up-and-running...