John Gallardo's Weblog

Ian Jose, an Architect here in SQL Engine working on the Query Optimizer, has just started a blog . Lots of good tips and practical advice for getting the most out of SQL Server's query optimizer.

XML Schema has an interesting feature where you can define a value as being "fixed" . The meaning here is basically that an attribute or element has to have a particular value, and if it is not there in the instance, then that value is implied. However...

http://microsoftgadgets.com/default.aspx The "gadgets" folks have updated their blog to include some gadgets that you can add to start.com . I'm trying out the "Flickr" gadget as well as the "to-do" list gadget. Are you using start.com yet?