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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Bob Duffy's Blobby Blog : 2008 Launch</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/boduff/archive/tags/2008+Launch/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: 2008 Launch</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>2008 Launch Tour</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/boduff/archive/2008/01/16/2008-launch-tour.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:28:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7132110</guid><dc:creator>boduff</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/boduff/comments/7132110.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/boduff/commentrss.aspx?PostID=7132110</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I've been a bit off radar: up to my neck in a large&amp;#160; sql server / dot.net project and some time off for Christmas. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Believe it or not I managed to get my thumb trapped in a Transformer on Christmas day and an ensuing infection - so if you see a consultant with a black thumb that might be me ;-)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Anyway, THE big event of the year is the joint SQL 2008, Visual Studi0 2008 and Windows Server 2008 launch.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Irish tour is visiting four cities on following dates:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Thursday 31&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; Jan &amp;#8211; Belfast &amp;#8211; Radisson&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Monday 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Feb &amp;#8211; Cork &amp;#8211; Rochestown Park Hotel&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Wednesday 6&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Feb &amp;#8211; Galway &amp;#8211; G Hotel&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Wednesday 13&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Feb &amp;#8211; Dublin &amp;#8211; Morrison &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To register you can visit the relevant site at &lt;a href="http://www.mtug.ie"&gt;http://www.mtug.ie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I'll be picking some cool new features in SQL 2008 to demo focused on the IT Pro and BI arena. Pop by to see demos of: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Security Improvements&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Enhanced Mirroring&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Declarative Management Framework&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Resource Governor&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Query Plan Guides&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Data Warehousing Enhancements&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;BI Platform Enhancements&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Enhanced Reporting and Data Mining&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Hopefully see you on the tour...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7132110" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/boduff/archive/tags/SQL/default.aspx">SQL</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/boduff/archive/tags/2008+Launch/default.aspx">2008 Launch</category></item></channel></rss>