I read the information on the official PostgreSQL site that the first commercial OLEDB provider for PotgreSQL is available now. I estimate this news as very good.

I have been working with PostgreSQL very closely for one year and I found that this server is very powerful and as now .NET framework will have OLEDB provider for a supporting of that, it can be a good alternative of the MS SQL and Oracle servers, licenses of which cost much money.

I have downloaded th trial version of it from the author’s site and have checked how it works. Of course trial version has serious limitation here:

TRIAL VERSION

The trial version has the following limitations:

- SELECT statements return up to 100 rows.
- DB conversion in DTS/SSIS Wizard handles only first 100 rows in every table.

Also I proud that the its developer is Russian programmer, who works and lives in USA now. Thank him very much for his good job. And if I will have .NET project where by some reasons will choose PostgreSQL server I obviously can play with its not trial version also, which doubtless will be interesting.

Nice test which allow to estimate your PHP skills

Nice test, recommend to play in this everybody who knows Russian and PHP little

The Netherlands photos

Other good news came from the Netherlands as the collection of photos with my. Thank you very much for this to Nikos, which finally found his photo camera and sent those photos to me

Update: also available photos shoot by myself during this very nice journey. As you can see some of Nikos photos illustrate the moment when I was shooting something myself, that is fun to see yourself from the side