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Author Archives: Brian Lowry

Understanding Entity Framework and Sql indexes

Posted by Brian Lowry
June 30, 2014
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The lack of non-clustered indexes and performance In my consulting experience, one of the most frequently overlooked performance issues I see with web applications is the lack of properly-constructed database indexes. Microsoft’s Entity Framework has helped alleviate some of these issues by automatically creating indexes on foreign key constraints – a necessity for domain models […]

Setup multiple SSL certificates on an Amazon EC2 instance using a VPC

Posted by Brian Lowry
June 16, 2014
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*Attention: there is no migration path from 32-bit to 64-bit, so if you’d like to upgrade your server during this process to 64-bit, then you should skip this and just launch a new 64-bit instance directly into your VPC. You will need to rebuild the server from scratch. Create an image of your EC2 instance […]

EF6.1 Mapping between types & tables (including derived/inherited types)

Posted by Brian Lowry
June 10, 2014
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Programmatic non-clustered indexes I recently finished building an EntityFrameworkDatabaseBuilder that uses LINQ-style code to allow you to setup non-clustered indexes on a Sql Server instance through an Entity Framework database intializer. The calling code looks like this: This code will create two indexes. The first will be a dual-column, non-clustered index using EmailAddress and Password, […]

Constructors vs. object initializers

Posted by Brian Lowry
June 6, 2014
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Object initializer time vampire The release of C# 3.0 brought the syntactic sugar of object initializers. I realize that this is dated and has been available for a long time; however, I continue to see bad patterns throughout my consulting career that make working with code difficult. This feature can cause nightmares for other developers […]

New WordPress redesign for LowryMedia.com!

Posted by Brian Lowry
March 2, 2014
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I am actively working to redesign LowryMedia.com so that it is easier to navigate and interact.

Technology blog to come soon…

Posted by Brian Lowry
March 2, 2014
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It has been a few years since I have written about development and technology; I hope to start writing more frequently in the near future. I just need to clear out some of these projects first…

  • Recent Posts

    • Understanding Entity Framework and Sql indexes June 30, 2014
    • Setup multiple SSL certificates on an Amazon EC2 instance using a VPC June 16, 2014
    • EF6.1 Mapping between types & tables (including derived/inherited types) June 10, 2014
    • Constructors vs. object initializers June 6, 2014
    • New WordPress redesign for LowryMedia.com! March 2, 2014
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