Announcing SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 2.2 

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Microsoft® SQL Server® 2017 Feature Pack  

Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition:
https://download.microsoft.com/download/E/F/2/EF23C21D-7860-4F05-88CE-39AA114B014B/SQLServer2017-x64-ENU-Dev.iso

Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Evaluation:
https://download.microsoft.com/download/E/F/2/EF23C21D-7860-4F05-88CE-39AA114B014B/SQLServer2017-x64-ENU.iso


Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Express:
https://download.microsoft.com/download/E/F/2/EF23C21D-7860-4F05-88CE-39AA114B014B/SQLEXPRADV_x64_ENU.exe
https://download.microsoft.com/download/E/F/2/EF23C21D-7860-4F05-88CE-39AA114B014B/SQLEXPR_x64_ENU.exe
https://download.microsoft.com/download/E/F/2/EF23C21D-7860-4F05-88CE-39AA114B014B/SqlLocalDB.msi

https://download.microsoft.com/download/E/F/2/EF23C21D-7860-4F05-88CE-39AA114B014B/SQLRules_x64_ENU.exe

 PM> install-package EntityFrameworkWithHierarchyId

public class Employee
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
 
    [Required, MaxLength(100)]
    public string Name { get; set; }
 
    [Required]
    public HierarchyId Node { get; set; } // نوع داده جدید
}

public class MyContext : DbContext
{
    public DbSet<Employee> Employees { get; set; }
 
    public MyContext()
        : base("Connection1")
    {
        this.Database.Log = log => Console.WriteLine(log);
    }
}
 
public class Configuration : DbMigrationsConfiguration<MyContext>
{
    public Configuration()
    {
        AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = true;
        AutomaticMigrationDataLossAllowed = true;
    }
 
    protected override void Seed(MyContext context)
    {
        if (context.Employees.Any())
            return;
 
        context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(
            "ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employees] ADD NodePath as Node.ToString() persisted");
        context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(
            "ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employees] ADD Level AS Node.GetLevel() persisted");
        context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(
            "ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employees] ADD ManagerNode as Node.GetAncestor(1) persisted");
        context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(
            "ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employees] ADD ManagerNodePath as Node.GetAncestor(1).ToString() persisted");
 
        context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(
            "ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employees] ADD CONSTRAINT [UK_EmployeeNode] UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED (Node)");
        context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(
            "ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employees]  WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [EmployeeManagerNodeNodeFK] " +
            "FOREIGN KEY([ManagerNode]) REFERENCES [dbo].[Employees] ([Node])");
 
        context.Employees.Add(new Employee { Name = "Root", Node = new HierarchyId("/") });
        context.Employees.Add(new Employee { Name = "Emp1", Node = new HierarchyId("/1/") });
        context.Employees.Add(new Employee { Name = "Emp2", Node = new HierarchyId("/2/") });
        context.Employees.Add(new Employee { Name = "Emp3", Node = new HierarchyId("/1/1/") });
        context.Employees.Add(new Employee { Name = "Emp4", Node = new HierarchyId("/1/1/1/") });
        context.Employees.Add(new Employee { Name = "Emp5", Node = new HierarchyId("/2/1/") });
        context.Employees.Add(new Employee { Name = "Emp6", Node = new HierarchyId("/1/2/") });
 
        base.Seed(context);
    }
}

using (var context = new MyContext())
{
    Console.WriteLine("\ngetItems OrderByDescending(employee => employee.Node)");
 
    var employees = context.Employees.OrderByDescending(employee => employee.Node).ToList();
    foreach (var employee in employees)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", employee.Id, employee.Node);
    }
 }

SELECT
    [Extent1].[Id] AS [Id],
    [Extent1].[Name] AS [Name],
    [Extent1].[Node] AS [Node]
    FROM [dbo].[Employees] AS [Extent1]
    ORDER BY [Extent1].[Node] DESC


6 /2/1/
3 /2/
7 /1/2/
5 /1/1/1/
4 /1/1/
2 /1/
1 /

using (var context = new MyContext())
{
    Console.WriteLine("\nGetAncestor(1) of /1/");
 
    var firstItem = context.Employees.Single(employee => employee.Node == new HierarchyId("/1/"));
    foreach (var item in context.Employees.Where(employee => firstItem.Node == employee.Node.GetAncestor(1)))
    {
        Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", item.Id, item.Name);
    }
}

SELECT TOP (2)
    [Extent1].[Id] AS [Id],
    [Extent1].[Name] AS [Name],
    [Extent1].[Node] AS [Node]
    FROM [dbo].[Employees] AS [Extent1]
    WHERE cast('/1/' as hierarchyid) = [Extent1].[Node]

SELECT
    [Extent1].[Id] AS [Id],
    [Extent1].[Name] AS [Name],
    [Extent1].[Node] AS [Node]
    FROM [dbo].[Employees] AS [Extent1]
    WHERE (@p__linq__0 = ([Extent1].[Node].GetAncestor(1))) OR ((@p__linq__0 IS
NULL) AND ([Extent1].[Node].GetAncestor(1) IS NULL))
-- p__linq__0: '/1/' (Type = Object)

4 Emp3
7 Emp6

var list = context.Employees.Where(
          employee => employee.Node.IsDescendantOf(new HierarchyId("/1/")) &&
                              employee.Node.GetLevel() == 2).ToList();

SELECT
    [Extent1].[Id] AS [Id],
    [Extent1].[Name] AS [Name],
    [Extent1].[Node] AS [Node]
    FROM [dbo].[Employees] AS [Extent1]
    WHERE (([Extent1].[Node].IsDescendantOf(cast('/1/' as hierarchyid))) = 1) 
    AND (2 = ([Extent1].[Node].GetLevel()))

var items = context.Employees.Where(employee => employee.Node.IsDescendantOf(new HierarchyId("/1/")))
    .Select(employee => new
    {
        Id = employee.Id,
        OrigPath = employee.Node,
        ReparentedValue = employee.Node.GetReparentedValue(new HierarchyId("/1/"), HierarchyId.GetRoot()),
        Level = employee.Node.GetLevel()
    }).ToList();
 
foreach (var item in items)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Id:{0}; OrigPath:{1}; ReparentedValue:{2}; Level:{3}", item.Id, item.OrigPath, item.ReparentedValue, item.Level);
}

SELECT
    [Extent1].[Id] AS [Id],
    [Extent1].[Node] AS [Node],
    [Extent1].[Node].GetReparentedValue(cast('/1/' as hierarchyid), hierarchyid::GetRoot()) AS [C1],
    [Extent1].[Node].GetLevel() AS [C2]
    FROM [dbo].[Employees] AS [Extent1]
    WHERE ([Extent1].[Node].IsDescendantOf(cast('/1/' as hierarchyid))) = 1


Id:2; OrigPath:/1/; ReparentedValue:/; Level:1
Id:4; OrigPath:/1/1/; ReparentedValue:/1/; Level:2
Id:5; OrigPath:/1/1/1/; ReparentedValue:/1/1/; Level:3
Id:7; OrigPath:/1/2/; ReparentedValue:/2/; Level:2

Cloud Computing is currently the hot topic in the developer world these days, and it seems all anyone wants to talk about is the cloud. If you're like me you signed up for something like Windows Azure just to see what the hype was all about. There are a lot of good reasons to move an app to the cloud, but it's still not for everyone. There are some things you need to think about before taking this gamble with your app.  

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