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

We are so close to launch now I can smell it! This is a very big launch for Microsoft UK - and hence there is a main Launch Event in Birmingham on Nov 8th followed by three regional events - London, Harrogate and Edinburgh. I will be hosting some of my...

When I joined Microsoft 9 years back the most common question I heard about SQL Server was "Is it fast enough?". This was worded in so many different ways - but boiled down to a perception part based on fact (SQL Server 6.0/7.0) and part based on some...

At the moment my life still revolves around SQL Server 2005 - but come January I need to look marginally competent with WinFX :-) Thankfully I just spotted this little beauty - http://www.roadtowinfx.com/ . A UK site pulling together info on WinFX...

Great news - we RTMd on Friday and made it available for download to MSDN Subscribers. Two great products - enjoy them! Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/

Just spotted that Dell published a TPC-C result of 99cents per transaction for SQL Server 2005! Top work! Oracle (bless them) are nearly twice as expensive! Check out http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_price_perf_results.asp . Dells entry is described...

The new SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver Beta 2 is now live on the web http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2005/jdbc.mspx . We’ve had a very positive community response for this product so far and we’re on the home stretch for our release. Enjoy

My group works with Developers and Architects in the UK - and as part of our enegagement with Architects we run the Architect Forum. Dec 9th will be the next delivery for solution architects (folks architecting applications). We have a number of our colleagues...