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Using syspreped images of SQL Server without any problems. There may be many of you using syspreping in the past and encountered problems during runtime due to not findable errors which were not reproducable on machine they were installed fom scratch...

One of the most heard questions I get is: "Now that we have VS2008 Database Edition, where can we get the additions which came with VS2k5 for DBPro?" The bad news, you cannot get them anywhere separately, the good news is that (you don´t even have to...

Long term, short story. Several issues and bugs are fixed within the rollup package which can be see here KB941278 . The download package is available under http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=11229...

Sometime you might be stuck in a situation for Analysis Services where you have to pull of security information from an external system to get the information about dimension or cell security. Implementing that is not that hard as you might think of....