So can SQL—“The data set should contain all the records that meet conditions A and B and C.” Declarative approaches to network automation take a lot of the burden of programming off network ...

Yes, someone from the SQL Server team must have had lunch with the Active Directory folks during Katmai development. That’s good news for us as SQL Server 2008 users.

Abstract: A declarative program describes what computation should be performed, without specifying how. Logic and functional programs are examples of declarative programming. However, most people ...