Suppose different departments in your business spoke different languages: English in software development, French in accounting, German in human resources, and Spanish in marketing. This scenario ...

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Integrating distributed, in-memory computing with distributed caching can easily extend LINQ semantics to create important new capabilities for real-time analytics on fast-changing data. In the age of ...

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LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a query execution pipeline that adds query capabilities to languages targeted at the managed environment of .Net. LINQ to SQL is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) ...

ScaleOut Software has integrated Microsoft's powerful LINQ-based query capability into its in-memory data grid, allowing applications to perform fully distributed queries for grid-based objects.

Do you think that LINQ is just another in a long series of odd Microsoft technologies? This database-meets-software-development technology could easily save your development staff time and avoid ...

I'm trying to figure out the correct way to use Linq to query a collection of objects and, for a given value, return the object in the collection that represents the minimum value that is greater than ...

I am working with a collection of data from an Excel-like form. Basically it is elevation vs distance data, with a few other things (all functions of distance). I am trying to pair down the sheer ...

HBase is a distributed, scalable, big data storage and retrieval system developed as part of the Apache Hadoop project. As a Java framework, HBase must use Java APIs, resulting in single-platform ...