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Julie Lerman writes The Data Farm, a personal blog at thedatafarm.com about programming and data. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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2011–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2011

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Why HN links it

The linked post covers Entity Framework 6 connection resiliency for SQL Server. The one comment cites it as a resource for handling intermittent connection problems, alongside a .NET 4.5.1 feature.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. > Key problems include connection issues with SQL Server, What sort? If it's intermediate connection problems .NET 4.5.1 added Connection Resiliency to ADO.NET [1]. If you're using a recent enough version of Entity Framework it goes even further [2]. [1] http://dpaoliello.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/connection-resili... [2] http://thedatafarm.com/data-access/ef6-connection-resiliency...

    Comment linking /data-access/ef6-connection-resiliency-for-sql-azure-when-does-it-actually-do-its-thing/

    on “Ask HN: Who is using the .NET stack for their startup?”
  2. Submitted The what-if brain: Social pariah for developers? as a story · 2 points

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  3. Submitted MVC 3 and EF 4.1 Code First: Here are my classes, now you do the rest as a story · 1 points

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