• Am I the only one using Microsoft's Entity Data Model (EDM) technology as an ORM for modeling as well as for the data access layer? This is a part of their new Entity Framework model introduced in .NET 3.5 SP1.

    I can tell you that for years we have both written our own code generation utilities as well as implemented 3rd party variations - and the MS version is by far the most superior from many perspectives.

    I highly encourage all of you SQL folks to start becoming very familiar with this, if you are not already.

    On a final note, while I don't agree with auto-generating databases, I do agree with standardizing on table structures with basic things like a primary keys, status fields and naming standards.

    RAP will not take foothold. Microsoft Entity Framework, however, has the full backing of Microsoft's neverending resources at its disposal 🙂