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NH Prof New FeaturesDisabling & Ignoring Alerts
Those are not actually new features, if you want to be strict about it. There is a whole bunch of things in NH Prof that already exists, but are only now starting to have an exposed UI.
I believe that NH Prof’s ability to analyze and detect problems in your NHibernate’s usage is one of the most valuable features that it have. Heavens know that I spent enough time on that thing to make it understand everything that I learned about NHibernate in 5 years of usage (how did it get to be that long)?
The problem is that NH Prof is not self aware yet, and assumptions about what is good practice or not cannot be made in vacuum, they must be made in context, which NH Prof lacks. As such, it is possible that you’ll find yourself inundated with alerts that aren’t valid for your scenario.
A typical example would be that for your project, which uses MySql, you cannot use NHibernate’s batching (which isn’t supported on MySql). Therefore, the batching alert is not only invalid, it is actually annoying. You can globally disable an alert from the settings dialog:
But that is like whacking flies with a rifle. It will kill all the alerts of that type. What about when you want to ignore a specific alert in a specific circumstance?
NH Prof supports this as well:
The profiler is smart enough to ignore the same alert from the same source in the future.
Of course, we can also remove ignored alerts from the settings dialog as well.
More posts in "NH Prof New Features" series:
- (24 Jan 2009) Disabling & Ignoring Alerts
- (30 Dec 2008) Overall usage and aggregated alerts
- (22 Dec 2008) Analysis
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just a minor clarification regarding NHibernate's batching on MySQL... it doesn't work for DML statements, but you can use the MultiQuery/MultiCriteria functionality to batch your select statements with MySQL
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