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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:11 AM

Should I stay or Should I Go?

I'm writing this post on a bus headed towards the Seattle Convention Center, where the technical folks in the field meet once a year to hear from the product teams about all the new features coming in the future. I used to present at this conference (and
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:41 AM

You have a Voice at Microsoft

When I was on the product team, I was asked by a few of you from time to time to make a change in SQL Server. Now that I'm in the field, I get asked to "chat with the development team" to make one change or another. But you actually have more
Posted by Buck Woody | 3 Comments
Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:36 AM

Are You Archiving Your Data?

Computer technology has been a fixture of business now for several decades - but I'm not sure it's a "mature" industry yet. Sure, we have a few standards, and some dominant vendors and a strong workforce - all earmarks of a mature industry -
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:39 AM

Music and Technology

I've noticed something interesting since I've been working at Microsoft, specifically at the SQL Server organization. All of the folks here are incredibly smart - you'd probably expect that - but they have two other traits that I've found. Many of them
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:40 AM

"Katmai" test statistics:

I thought you might be interested in a few statistics about the latest release of SQL Server 2008. We still refer to our products with the code names, so you'll still hear us refer to 2K8 as "Katmai". Every day we used over 4000 lab machines to execute
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Monday, August 11, 2008 6:46 AM

Checking the "Feedback" Box

If you're installing SQL Server 2008, you'll get a panel near the end of the installation process that asks you if we can collect data on how you use the product. Check those boxes! I was with someone one time during their installation, and when that
Posted by Buck Woody | 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:52 AM

News Flash: SQL Server 2008 is here

You can find it on MSDN Subscriber Downloads and TechNet Subscriber Downloads . Either search for SQL Server 2008 or navigate under Servers then to SQL Server 2008. http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 6:38 AM

Difficult Visualizations

As I've mentioned, I'm a big fan of scripting. It's normally faster for me to type than to click. But there are times that it is difficult to do some operations in script - they are just easier in a graphical interface. One of those places is showing
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 6:31 AM

Managing Other Platforms

We often get asked if we will ever create a tool that will manage not only SQL Server but other vendor's systems. I understand the desire - when I was a DBA I had several systems that I managed, and I wanted a tool that would do it all as well. I even
Posted by Buck Woody | 0 Comments
Monday, July 28, 2008 9:05 AM

The Bellevue Arts Festival and Software Development

This past Saturday my family and I went to the Bellevue Arts Festival near our home here in Washington. I'm constantly amazed by the "artist's eye" - someone gifted with being able to see what they want to draw, or paint, or make art out of any material.
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Friday, July 25, 2008 7:02 AM

DATAllegro Acquisition

You may have seen the announcements yesterday, but in case you haven’t, we had a pretty big acquisition announced at Microsoft yesterday that is great news for SQL Server. DATAllegro Inc. , a provider of data warehouse appliances. DATAllegro specializes
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:22 AM

Is Multi-Server Query Parallelized? Yes and no...

I was asked about the post I did on the multi-server query feature we put in SQL Server Management Studio 2008. Because it seems to render on the screen in a sequential fashion, the user thought the queries were issued one at a time from the Registered
Posted by Buck Woody | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:05 AM

Blogs, Blogs Everywhere...

Have you noticed a preponderance of new blogs and blog entries from the Microsoft teams lately? Well, there's a reason... During a release we get so "heads down" on the code that there is little time to talk about it. As the code solidifies and we move
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:09 AM

The Green, Green Grass of ...Microsoft?

You might not be aware of it, because the press doesn't often have good things to say about, well, anything, but Microsoft is a very "green" company. Even our campus is an environmentally friendly place, and we've made several lists for being a green
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:09 AM

Working with other RDBMS's

From time to time we get asked if we could extend SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to manage other database platforms. In fact, it's come up here among ourselves, and is the subject of no small debate. As you know, I was a DBA for a long time, and
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