There is a blog here? Wow!

I've been thinking for a while that I should probably blog about what's going on with DBV (as we call DBvolution when he's at home), it only just occurred to me that there might be one on SourceForge.

That's not quite true, I actually notice that Toaomalkster has one on his nice Tedhi site and something finally clicked.

So here I am at midnight, with headache, flu, and an ill girlfriend asleep in the bedroom typing away wondering what to say...

First I should mention what I'm working on right now.

The current work is called Expressions (at the moment) and it's adding all the functions that SQL defines and some it doesn't. This is enormous, and complicated, and probably infinite. However it's too important to the project not to get done.

I'm very proud of how it is turning out: the expressions are far easier to use than I ever dreamed. There is type safety on all the functions so you can't go wrong once you've started. And the implementation has led to a fundamental rethink of the DBOperator's role and place which will make complex WHERE lines easy.

All this work is actually just phase 1 of the 3 part plan to add what I'm calling DBReports. These are to be like DBQueries but the GROUP BY clause and derived values as well as stored values. What they actually are I'm still not sure but they are definitely going to be fun.