I've just about finished transferring must of the old Virtual server images to Hyper-V on some of them, the Network card was lost with the "Virtual machine Bus" not being updated in Device Manager. Effectively it had not somehow skipped HAL...

Dan Jones gives a sneak preview of the sexy new management features in "Kilimanjaro"due in 2010. This is very cool stuff for anyone who needs to manage and deploy enterprise application in a SQL "fabric". http://edge.technet.com/Media...

One of the biggest complaints about SSIS is the lack of performance when reading or writing to Oracle and Teradata. There isn't much support for bulk methods that are really needed to load data quickly. The recently released SSIS connectors licensed from...

I'm delivery the SQL Academy session on Upgrading to SQL 2008 this Thursday (4th December) - just before Kimberly's session at the SQL Users Group. Topics are: - Upgrading to SQL 2008 Tools and Planning. - Upgrade Scenarios: Mirroring, Clustering, ...

Just in case anyone isn't aware - Kimberly Tripp is back to Dublin this Thursday - 4th December at the SQL Users Group. The session is on optimising and scaling stored procs - details are here http://www.sql.mtug.ie/Events/EventInfo.aspx?ID=166a7fcc-6003...