The StreamInsight sample that I recently talked so much about in my Techdays and Bootcamp sessions are now finally online on CodePlex at http://streaminsight.codeplex.com . The purpose of these samples is to provide a guide through the StreamInsight development...

The May meeting of the SA SQL Server User Group will be on the 18th of May 2010. Venue and time are the same as always, 18h30 at the Microsoft offices This month I will be presenting on Master Data Management and SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services...

The SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack is now available for download and includes the usual collection of stand-alone packages now familiar to the previous versions of this feature pack including all the latest redistributable components for Microsoft SQL...

Get the SQL Server 2008 R2 Trial This includes the 64bit and 32bit versions of SQL Server 2008 R2 and the 64bit and 32bit versions of the PowerPivot add-in for Office 2010. All versions of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express are also available. Additionally all...

So it’s official, an evaluation edition of Windows Embedded Standard 7 is now available for download . If you have cooked up some solutions on earlier Windows XP based versions of Windows Embedded get the latest download of Windows Embedded Standard...

The SQL Server 2008 R2 Boot Camp provided everyone with a great overview of the new capabilities of SQL Server 2008 R2: PowerPivot, Report Builder 3.0, the new Reporting Service and Multi Server Management capabilities, Master Data Services and StreamInsight...

I missed the fact that a couple of weeks back Microsoft released version 3.0 of the SQL Server JDBC drivers so quickly after having released the CPT at the beginning of March. The JDBC drivers now provides support for SQL Server 2008 features including...

For those of you that missed the fact, SQL Server 2008 R2 Express is now available for download from the SQL Server Express site. But more importantly SQL Server 2008 R2 Express now supports 10 GB of storage per database. <Gary>

Only a week away, don't forget TechDays 2010 is coming to Cape Town next week  and its the technology training conference for South African IT Professionals and it is even bigger this year! Dates: Cape Town, CTICC - 11 May 2010 ( add to calendar...

Every now and then I force myself to sit down and reevaluate my certification status across all Microsoft products and map out a personal plan against the Microsoft curriculum for those certifications that I wish to maintain (yes, there are some areas...

Last week Steve Ballmer previewed the new Windows Live Messenger in his “Five Dimensions of the Cloud” presentation at the Universidade de Sao Paul, Brazil. You can check out the 6 minute video of the demo online now and learn more about the upcoming...

As promised SQL Server latest updates (updated 3 May). SQL Server 2005 Express: SQL Server 2005 Express with Service Pack 3 SQL Server 2005 Express with Advanced Services with Service Pack 3 SQL Server 2005: SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 SQL Server 2005...

I am  pleased to announce that the PowerPivot is now available for download from MSDN for MSDN subscribers. I have just downloaded and installed and it now reports version 10.5.1600.1 <Gary>

We will again be holding a SQL Server Boot Camp next week focusing on SQL Server 2008 R2’s newest features. I will be presenting the MDS and Stream Insight sections. Come join us for an awesome couple of days to talking and working with SQL Server 2008...