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Greek support in SQL Server Full Text Search

27 November 2008 |

Full text search is probably the best tool when it comes to searching through large amount of database data and has come a long way since the early versions of SQL server in of performance but also with more languages, being supported in each new version. But even though SQL Server 2008 now supports more than 50 diverse languages, according to msdn documentation, there is still no support for Greek in Full Text Search preventing us from building Greek localized applications that will take advantage of this SQL server feature. So I’ve opened a new issue at Microsoft Connect...

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posted @ Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:47 AM | Feedback (0)

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I am a Hero

01 April 2008 |

Yesterday Microsoft Hellas officially presented Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in its regional Launch 2008 event hosted at Athenaeum Intercontinental. Although I've been working and testing those products for quite some time now, it was nice listening to Eric Rudder (Senior Vice President Technical Strategy της Microsoft) on Microsoft's strategy for Microsoft Servers and .Net Framework. I also enjoyed Daniel Moth's speech on Smart Clients and Sync Framework, although I had already seen most of the things he talked about on his screencasts. I believe that Daniel is probably among the best speakers...

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posted @ Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:06 AM | Feedback (0)

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Developing WPF using ORMs and DAL generators

09 October 2006 |

I don’t know how long it’s been since I wrote my last Data Access Layer or piece of SQL Code, it certainly has been too long to even remember. Since then I’ve used a number of ORMs (Object Relational Mappers) or/and DAL Code Generators to perform all the tedious data access manipulation  I needed. The ones I’ve used are LLBGen : Unfortunately this free version stop evolving a long time ago (since .Net framework 1.1) and became a commercial solution,Olero’s  ORM.Net : Which was my favorite Open Source (GPL Licensed) ORM, although it...

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posted @ Monday, October 09, 2006 5:45 PM | Feedback (7)

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