The latest version of the SQL provider can be found on github or at nuget.   PostgreSQL The provider now has support for connecting to PostgreSQL databases! How exciting. Like SQLite, this new mode uses dynamic assembly loading and is based on the .NET connector libraries here.   Once you have your Npgsql libraries you can connect yourself up easily as so: type sql = SqlDataProvider< @"Server=localhost;Port=5432;Database=world;user=postgres;password=sekret;",  Common.DatabaseProviderT[...]

The SqlProvider now supports experimental SQLite access. You can achieve this by supplying the SQL provider some additional static parameters type sql = SqlDataProvider< @"Data Source=F:\sqlite\northwindEF.db;Version=3",Common.DatabaseProviderTypes.SQLITE,@"F:\sqlite\3\" > As you can see, you can now pass SQLITE as the DatabaseVendor static parameter, along with a valid SQLite specific connection string. The third parameter is ResolutionPath.  This is required for a few reasons - the first is that I do not[...]

I’m building a small compiler for a toy language which emits .NET executables, implemented in F#. Demo compilers are a dime a dozen, but there are a few things which make this project distinct: No lexer or parser generators are used. The entire compiler is written from the ground up, and is intended to be fairly [...]

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Introducing my latest type provider, designed to query general SQL databases.  This is very much an alpha cut, it is by no means feature complete, is still a mess in various areas and has only been tested on a very limited selection of databases.  I will provide a brief overview of its main features and lack thereof, followed by a fairly detailed explanation of the most prominent features.  There's other features not discussed here, hopefully there will be some followups to this in the coming weeks, along [...]