How do you get to limits of 8060 bytes per row and 8000 per (varchar, nvarchar) value?

Inside the Storage Engine: Anatomy of a record This is for SQL Server 2005 record header 4 bytes long two bytes of record metadata (record type) two bytes pointing forward in the record to the NULL bitmap fixed length portion of the record, containing the columns storing data types that have fixed lengths (e.g. bigint, … Read more

Dependency injection and ASP.Net Membership Providers

If you are configuring the custom membership providers via the <membership> element in the Web.config file, then I can see the issues you will have with dependency injection. The providers are constructed and managed by the framework, and there is no opportunity for you to intercept that construction to provide additional dependency injection for the … Read more

BigInteger in C?

Use libgmp: GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating-point numbers. There is no practical limit to the precision except the ones implied by the available memory in the machine GMP runs on… Since version 6, GMP is distributed under the dual licenses, GNU LGPL v3 … Read more