Hi Greg,

I don't have any help for your question, but I was wondering if you could
send a link to the music collection database video please? Sounds
interesting.

Regards
David

On Wed., 19 Sep. 2018, 09:58 Greg Keogh, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Folks, is anyone using the Cosmos DB Graph API? I just resurrected a demo
> I had working a few months ago, updated to the recent packages and ran it,
> every query run now produces:
>
> System.MissingMethodException : Method not found: 'Double
> Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Helpers.GetHeaderValueDouble(System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection,
> System.String, Double)'.
>
> I've now spent over 3 solid hours trying everything I can think of to get
> it working again, but without hope. I've twiddled config redirects, changed
> dozens of package versions in a wild variety of ways (including back to the
> ones from months ago) and tried all sorts of Gremlin queries, but
> absolutely nothing changes the error. Web searches produce zero matches.
>
> I thought I'd ask here just in case someone has seen this.
>
> I should point out though, that I'm really impressed by graph databases in
> general and see them as a fabulous alternative to RDBs for many realistic
> scenarios. I watched a good video yesterday by a chap who used a music
> collection database as an example where he tried to normalize it and
> finished up with dozens of tables and queries crammed with joins, whereas
> in a graph DB it was simple and natural. He points out quite rightly that
> if your find yourself making RDB queries with joins everywhere then you may
> be using the wrong database!
>
> Yesterday I watched about 20 Microsoft videos from conferences and tech
> announcements (some from Conf 2018), and now my brain is imprinted with
> images of smiling evangelists and product managers in blue shirts telling
> us how happy we are and how wonderful the future of software development
> will be. I must be living a different dream, because on the ground here all
> I get is compile errors, deploy fails, incomprehensible crashes, files not
> found, missing resources, package conflicts, authentication failures,
> assembly load errors, beta releases, breaking upgrades, software that won't
> install or uninstall, binding errors, Blazor, JavaScript, HTML, Xamarin and
> the bathroom drain keeps clogging up.
>
> *Greg K*
>

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