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The BCP Option

Moving data from one repository to the next may sound like a trivial task, and in the sense of the normal mechanical approach it very well may be.  What could be simpler than INSERT INTO Here SELECT * FROM There?  Not much, it would seem, until your data source is something other than a SQL [...]

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The Cost of Reflection

Reflection has long been a point of contention among the development community. On the one hand you have the elegance purists that insist that Reflection is the panacea that ensures we write boilerplate once and only once, and on the other you have the performance purists who insist that Reflection is too slow to [...]

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