IUpdateable from Eric Nelson (http://ericnelson.wordpress.com)

Something I get asked about frequently when I meet with UK ISVs is "Indigo - what is it exactly?" Well, Visual Studio Magazine has a great short interview with A ri Bixhorn, lead product manager of Web Services Strategy in the Developer and Platform Division...

No details yet - but hold those dates! http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/

The Digital Blackbelt webcast series discusses security risks, vulnerabilities, and solutions from the software developer's perspective. They start February 4th - and promise to tackle head on an important area for all of us. Check out http://www.microsoft...

This looks a good read to clarify the options around using XML with SQL Server 2005. I like the comparion table at the end - enjoy. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/sql2k5xmloptions.asp

As it happens - I am sitting in a lab with two of early adopters looking at SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. I also know virtually nothing about Analysis Services so others in the team are helping them. Which leaves me to "have a browse". I just came...

SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4) includes a roll-up of bug fixes, added platform support for AMD64, and Intel Extended Platforms in WOW so you can use 32-bit applications on 64-bit architectures. This is the first service pack to service the 64-bit...

So - I realised the other day that across all my early adopters I don't have any active on Service Broker. It occurred to me that in part, this is because I haven't really been championing. As it so happens I then came across a US ISV over in the UK that...

I am slowly dragging myself from the world of OLTP to the world of analytics - and todays discovery was this great site owned by the Microsoft team responsible for our data mining technologies. Well worth a read. Check out http://www.sqlserverdatamining...

I hope you all had a great break and so far 2005 has been kind to you. Nope - I haven't stopped blogging - I have just had a lovely long Christmas break which was preceded by a one week development lab with four of our SQL Server 2005 early adopters ...