I been planning what sort of SQL Server 2008 awareness events we should be running for UK ISV's over the next 6 months or so. If you work for a UK ISV I'd be interested in your views on what would work best for you. Send me an email with your thoughts...

A few days ago at the Worldwide Partner Conference we announced that we will launch Windows Server ® 2008, Visual Studio ® 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008 together at an event in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, 2008. This is great news. However I've already...

One of the new features in CTP3 is the merge command. This was introduced in the ISO SQL:2003 revision of the SQL language definition. Some readers may be familiar with the term upsert which provides similar functionality in other databases. A common...