We have been attempting to get Windows Vista Logo certification for VistaDB. Yes, it has been a slight pain, and we even got some flack from the Microsoft people about the name Vista (we had it first!). MSI Installer not optional Just in case you have not gone down this route yet I thought I might point...

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3.4 Optimizations and Changes I think many of you know we have been working under the hood lately for optimization. Way, way under the hood. Some of these changes are at the very lowest levels of the engine. Strongly Typed At the heart of VistaDB everything is a row. Database rows, clustered rows, index...

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I read some blogs from time to time. Not a lot, but usually I search them when I am looking for a fellow programmer who feels my pain. I was searching tonight and came across a great blog post by Mark Heath that really hit the nail on the head of what I have been living this week. Refactoring to the...

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Moving? Yep, we are moving into our new office officially this week. We got the keys on Friday and spent all weekend pulling cables, installing blinds, tearing down and putting back up racks, etc. Phew, my back hurts. Tomorrow the heavy lifting will come in, and yes we hired movers to do that part. I...

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I have mentioned to a few people that we are working on optimizations and performance internal to the engine. I wanted to take a brief blog post to explain an optimization concept that is subtle, but makes a big difference in runtime performance. Hashtables Internally quite a few structures are stored...

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Subscription Renewals are upon us! We started the subscription model exactly one year ago with VistaDB 3.0. Since that time we have released 22 builds for users! Some of them have been major, some minor. Lots of bug tweaks, and new features. The subscription renewal price has been set at $99 for a one...

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Spam stinks Spam drives me nuts. It should be obvious since I wrote a spam filter to scratch my personal itch against spammers, but they are getting more and more agressive. Apparently they are now targeting FogBugz (the bug tracking system we use) now as well. Why Fogbugz? The obvious question is why...

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I have been meaning to share the results of this survey for quite a while. It has been been one of those things that kept dropping off the pile of todo items until now. I am going to show the summaries and then give some of my observations about the open ended questions. What survey? This survey was...

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VistaDB 3.3 Express Edition What is it? VistaDB Express is a free edition of VistaDB for non commercial use. This includes hobbysts, mono developers, open source projects, personal websites, user groups, sample application, schools, and much much more. Why an Express Edition? We get asked quite a bit...

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VistaDB has had connection pooling since one of the early betas. I was recently speaking with a user who had some questions and I could not remember the answers, so I looked through the code. I found one property that was not exposed to the public interface, and I decided to take the time to document...

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