Microsofts not so best practices
Dave has doe a couple of great posts on how Microsoft
aren't adhering to best practices in there own products.
http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/sqlandthelike/archive/2010/01/25/microsoft-follow-best-practices-part-2.aspx
This is also related to the talk I'm giving at Developer Day on Entity
Framework. The first version is shocking from a SQL perspective and really isn't
fit for purpose. I'll be going into the details of what can
happen and how to avoid them
http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/ddd8/Default.aspx