Has anyone here read this?

[FunkyDexter]

I've tried to figure out the origin of the word 'cop'

Yeah it sort of means "Good" in this context. I've never heard it used to mean that in other than "Not much cop" though. You can't say 'He was cop at that", you can only say "He was not much cop at that" I don't think it exists as a word to mean good on it's own. I think it might be a Londonese phrase so it might have it's roots in Cockney Rhyming Slang, not sure.

What do you all find .net does for you?

I do almost exclusively bespoke desktop business systems. In that context I'd say it's two great strengths are rapid interface design and easy to read business logic. How closely the ide integrates with SQL Server is also a huge boon but it does tend to lead us to pick SQL Server as a DBMS because it's easy to code against rather than because it's a more suitable platform than any other (although it usually is in my experience).

I'm quite surprised to hear you dislike the SQLClient namespace. I tend not to think of it as distancing me from the data but rather as doing most of the mundane stuff for me. On the occasions I want to be closer to the data for any reason I simply throw it out the window (the namespace, not the data). I have come across apps, though, where the developer clearly got hold of the namespace and was determined to use every component come what may. The code ends up littered with so many cludges and workarounds that you can't help thinkning 'Why didn't you just do it in explicit code'.

Anyway, why aren't you around the DB forum lately.


edit>Shaggy, this link covers where Not Much Cop comes from pretty well. I found some other explanations but they, erm, weren't much cop.