Blogs

The blogs featured here give you the personal perspective of industry experts on new developments in database and data access technology.

Data Platform Development Team Blogs

Data Programmability team blog
The team blog for Data Programmability discussing data access topics in general.

SQL Protocols team blog
Discussions related to Microsoft’s SQL Server Protocols—Netlibs, TDS and (new for SQL 2005) SOAP. Topics include connections and SQL connectivity.

XML team blog
Covers XQuery, XPath, SQLXML, XML Editor, XSLT, XSD, XLinq (LINQ to XML), and more XML goodness.

ADO.NET team blog
ADO.NET and System.Data namepace, posts on current and future releases including info on ADO.NET Entity Framework, EDM, LINQ to Entities, etc.

Microsoft SQL Server Native Client team blog
Team blog for native data access APIs—ODBC and OLE DB—for SQL Server 2005 and later versions.

Data Platform Development Team - Individual Blogs

Andrew Conrad—ADO.net, O/R, and generally invaluable minutiae

Anton Lapounov

brianbec’s WebLog

Carl Perry

Danny Simmons

Eric White’s Blog

Erik Meijer

Marcelo’s WebLog

Mark Ashton’s WebLog

Sushil’s WebLog Random ADO.Net Discussion

Tim Mallalieu—random musings on data, models, services

Tommy Williams

Recommended Blogs about Data Access/Programming

Andres Aguiar’s Weblog

Ayende Rahien’s blog

Bill’s House O Insomnia

Bob Beauchemin’s Blog

Daniel Cazzulino

David Hayden

Dino Esposito’s WebLog

Erwyn Van Der Meer

Florin Lazar’s WebLog

Frans Bouma’s blog

Jackie Goldstein’s Weblog

Julie Lerman’s Blog

Kimberly L. Tripp

Kingsley Idehen’s Blog Data Space

Niels SQL Server Blog

Panopticon Central

Sahil Malik—blah.winsmarts.com

SQLJunkies

SQL Server 2005: CLR Integration

The ADO Guy

Visual Studio Data Team’s WebLog

Wallace B. McClure

William (Bill) Vaughn’s Musings

Yasser Shohoud