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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:18 AM
News: Look at the CTP3 of our upcoming Distributed Cache technology - Velocity
If you develop high scale, scale out/distributed apps, check out Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity” Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3) Released to Web on 7 April 09. "Velocity" is a distributed in-memory application cache platform for
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:59 AM
Get SQL Server 2008 for FREE: FREE Database, FREE Reporting Solution, FREE Spatial
If you are a Student, Teacher or anyone on a budget, don’t feel pushed to use Open Source databases like MySQL just because they have an entry level offering for free. You may be one of many who expressed concern for its quality & design which suffered
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:56 AM
How do I get FREE Software from Microsoft?
It is common to hear students & small start-up businesses state “I use Open Source because it is free” or they download pirate Microsoft from really dodgy, spyware prone sites to get it free. The irony is that many of these people qualify to get the
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:51 AM
SQL Server 2008: April 09 Updates – Handy links
Scanning the Microsoft sites it might not be obvious that April 09 was a huge month for new releases from the SQL Team. Given that it is sometimes difficult to find everything in one place I thought I’d make it easier for you by creating this index. Beyond
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Monday, April 20, 2009 9:36 PM
Free Chart Controls for .NET: Windows and Web – Handy Links
Even though its been available for more than 6 months, many people have overlooked this little gem. Those that are using it get terribly excited when they discover how easy it is to use the features & capability it offers. So if you need very powerful
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Friday, April 10, 2009 11:06 AM
SQL Server 2008 SP1 - Released
April 09: Service Pack 1 for SQL 2008 can now be downloaded Download SQL 2008 Service Pack 1 from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=66ab3dbb-bf3e-4f46-9559-ccc6a4f9dc19 See the SQL Server New Blog for more
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