On 15 th of June 2010, we did an event with SPAN around the local SQL Community in Malaysia We had a strong attendance and I want to personally thank everyone who came to this event to make it a success, especially the speakers and the organizers Attached...

Who would have thought you’d measure your player’s muscles…. Check out this AWESOME video : Enjoy! -Rohan

Love the world cup? Love Analytics? Wanna analyze the World Cup? Check out some great videos on analytics of World Cup here - http://www.microsoft.com/bi/biresources/default.aspx?vidID=23   Also check out Microsoft's value across the desktop, web...

On cloud number 9? Do your ROI and TCO calculations on the TCO and ROI Calculator here ! This is a quick calculation I did for a fictitious small Web Company – impressive… Enjoy Rohan

Found a great resource for SQL Server 2008 benchmarks – check it out here ! Enjoy! Rohan

Awesome paper by Forrester for your reading pleasure: · TEI of Implementing Microsoft’s Productivity Platform Enjoy, Rohan Thomas

Great article around BI and how companies should evaluate a strategy to store and manage data. Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed here )—but also big headaches Enjoy -Rohan

Saw this great article in Information  Week – Thanks to Alex for pointing it out to me. <excerpt> With the new Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010 tools plus PowerPivot for SharePoint, the reports can be done in close to real time, Catassi...

Alinean published this detailed stu dy which you guys can read up on and download it here This study talks about: TCA per year for Oracle is 460% higher than SQL Server Deployment tasks for Oracle takes longer than SQL Server Oracle DBA spent more time...

<excerpt from Information Week’s Global CIO > For CIOs, the problem has been the complexity of many BI tools: aimed at sophisticated experts, many of today's products just won't scale to the levels needed if the democratization effort is to be more...

<excerpt> For more information, please refer to the whitepaper Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot Planning and Deployment Executive Summary Microsoft® SQL Server® PowerPivot is an innovative data analysis technology that redefines how organizations...

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So a lot of my customers and partners have been asking me about numbers around SQL Server, so I thought of getting this quick blog post up to show you an aggregate view of some of those articles – Thanks to Mark and Sunny for helping me out with it.  ...

I’m sure you guys are already aware of the Microsoft Partner Network and now I’d like to introduce you to the new Microsoft Partner Network Community which is designed to facilitate real-time networking opportunities between people selling or building...

Finally we have a date! SQL Server 2008 R2 received an official release date. It will be listed on Microsoft’s May price list, and will be available by May 2010!! Read more about it here Cheers -Rohan

Calling all CTOs, Software Architects, Software Developers and Technopreneurs!!!   Register here See you there! -Rohan

Awesome step by Microsoft and HP! HP and Microsoft Corp. today announced an agreement to invest $250 million over the next three years to significantly simplify technology environments for businesses of all sizes. This agreement represents the industry...

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Great article in The Star : Enjoy Yours, Rohan

Awesome resource !! We have published the new BizTalk Server 2009 click-through demo . The demo, highlights BizTalk's SharePoint and WF integration and is based on PO and Invoice Processing scenarios. Check it out today! Yours, Rohan Technorati Tags:...

Another awesome resource on SQL Server in comparison to Oracle Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a data platform with many advantages and business benefits including better security, performance and scalability, developer productivity, and Business Intelligence...

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a policy-based system for managing one or more instances of SQL Server along with tools for performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning that enable administrators to more efficiently manage their databases and...

Great resource of SQL Server 2008 white papers on a ton of topics including: Online Transaction Processing/Data Management Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Application Development/Data Programmability Switching to SQL Server 2008   Enjoy...

An awesome site by Editors at SQLServerPedia. Good job guys! Enjoy the SQLServerPedia , -Rohan Technorati Tags: SQL Server , SQLServerPedia

Yes, you have data management options! Considering a better data management solution? Consider SQL Server 2008 Enterprise to efficiently manage your business-critical applications. Do the math on SQL Server value and you’ll see the efficiencies add up...