I attended Zlatko Michailov’s talk on Entity SQL today at DevTeach which was definitely interesting to me. In showing Entity SQL queries, Zlatko used a tool that he built as an experiment that evaluates Entity SQL queries (with some intellisense help as you type them!), displays the resulting provider level SQL and then displays the resulting data in grids (plural if there is related data in the result). It will be cool to see that tool evolve into something that we can use…keep your eyes on his blog just in case!

While I learned a ton, one of the very interesting (amazing actually) things that Zlatko shared with us about the upcoming Beta 3 of Entity Framework is that they had done some serious work on performance in the Object Services layer and that it is almost as fast in materializing objects as the Entity Client is at streaming results. He also said that they are closing in on SQLClient performance.

I learned today about Diego Vega who is another new hire on the Entity Framework team. Diego is responsible for Linq to Entities. As EF grows, there are more and more specialized people on the team. So now we have Zlatko who is the Entity SQL PM, Alex who owns the Entity Data Model and Diego will be focused on LINQ to Entities.

A funny post yesterday as Diego gets “revenge” on Zlatko who wrote a post on LINQ to Entities. Diego’s revenge is to write a post about Entity SQL. And of course, we’re the beneficiaries!