Category: Data

  • Listener in Oracle 11g

    I am working on a project that uses Oracle 11g, and we were standing up a db for proof of concept in one of the dev environments. I configured listener.ora to point to the instance, but still was having connection problems. Apparently in your init file, you need the line: local_listener=’MySidName’ To make sure it […]

  • Datalayer Decisions (Repository, DAO, Services) in Domain-Driven-Design Applications

    I have been working several applications lately at work that use Domain-Driven Design. I had a couple of questions about design choices I saw made in the applications I’m working with. I recently talked to an architect who uses DDD a lot (Model first), and had the chance to pick his brain. Here’s what I […]

  • Linq to SQL

    Background: Linq to Sql is a lightweight data access protocol for the .Net framework.  It supports filtering and other lambda features in code, allowing the programmer to treat their data source as if it were a collection of objects that support flexible features.  In this way, it can be thought of as an ORM mapper, […]