There is a new article by folks on the VS and SQL Teams about how to embed the installation of SQL Express into you app, lots of good stuff in here including a wrapper class for the MSI options.

Steve Twitchell has posted a new download for SSMS-E that should fix the install problem related to other AppIDs, specifically BOL.

It seems that Ken Henderson and I have been trying the same experiment , without knowing about it. For the last month (actually 26 days to be precise) I comitted to myself to blog every day, partly as I had been lax in my blogging and also because I knew...

Erland (one of the SQL Server MVPs) has been working ona SQL Server connectivity module for Perl based on OLE DB, you can find it here .

New WP published a little while back that talks about troubleshooting SQL Server 2005 using some of the new technologies to help. Its written by the customer advisory team, Customer Support Team and members of SQL Server Database engine team, in other...

Good list here , I did review one of these and was impressed, I hope the others are all as good as it was. More lists as I find them or create them.

The Gotdotnet team is throwing a Birthday Party and all Gotdotnet users are invited! The party will occur at the Microsoft Visitor Center this Friday, November 18, 2005 between 6PM and 10PM. For more event details, see here or visit the Gotdotnet homepage...

Great article on cleansing using SSIS Fuzzy technologies here.

Some really great info on logparser and 64 bit amongst other subjects in here. These guys run the 4th largest web property in the world, and they do an amazing job. Time to add the TechNet blogs community page to my aggregator methinks!

SQL Server Learning Survey - International If you live outside of the United States or Canada , w e want to know more about your experience with SQL Server ! How did you initially learn to use SQL ? What are your preferences for learning new topics...

New KB to discuss this here

Looks like Steve Twitchell has worked out why SSMS-E has not been starting on some folks machines, the thread is here.

The first SQL Server 2005 Feature Pack

Is quite a mouthful but its also available to download in CTP form!

I’ve just come out of SteveB’s jam packed keynote I thought I would take the chance to write down some thoughts on why the VS integration is a key component of this SQL Server release. First of all we should really be talking about our integration...

Well in case you hadn't noticed we are launching SQL Server 2005, VS 2005 and Biztalk 2006 on Monday. I'll be hanging out in the ask the experts booth for most of the day but I also have a cabana session at lunch and then I have a breakout presentation...

The SQL Server Protocols Team has a blog and a great 2 part post on troubleshooting connections. Part 1 Part 2 There is other good stuff on there and I'm sure there will be more.

TechNet Magazine has a bunch of great Q&A, some of the questions and answers are culled from internal support alias’s so the answers are frequently from members of the dev team or support team, good stuff.

I use BlogJet to do most of my posting if ind the offline and editing stuff pretty easy and its a snap to upload images to another site ( we don’t have an image store for msdn blogs so they have to go to another site and get linked). The one thing it...

List is here , interestingly enough I couldn’t find a similar page on MSDN, must have a chat with them about that…

The team working on P roject REAL have done some amazing work and have been documenting/talking about every step. They have a full day at SQL Connections the week we launch on SQL Server 2005.