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Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:52 PM

Moving on

I'm over 2 months late in writing this post. please forgive me for the delay, especially those of you who were nice enough to leave comments and questions and expected a response. This is my last posting on my "Typed XML" blog. After almost 9 years at
Posted by denisruc | 1 Comments
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:04 PM

Stardust memories

The famous Stardust hotel and casino was torn down today . I was fond of the place since this was the hotel I stayed at when I first visited Vegas in the mid nineties. During our most recent trip to Nevada last summer my wife and I made sure we stopped
Posted by denisruc | 0 Comments
Friday, September 01, 2006 10:42 AM

The latest issue of SQL Server Standard magazine is all about XML.

The September issue of SQL Server Standard magazine is devoted to XML. I contributed an article where I look at ways to use XML to solve relational problems. Check it out!
Posted by denisruc | 3 Comments
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 9:24 PM

Explaining the reasons behind some of XML datatype's limitations

If you use XML in SQL Server 2005, and especially if you use it in association with schemas, I suggest you read Brandon's recent blog post about the limitations that were placed on the XML datatype. Brandon is one of our developers and he's got first-hand
Posted by denisruc | 0 Comments
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:46 AM

If you leave me now…

A man named Vincent Ferrari is making headlines today. He called AOL’s costumer service to cancel his account and ran into a less than cooperative representative. The twist is, Vincent was taping the call and posted the recording on his blog . This article
Posted by denisruc | 3 Comments
Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:23 PM

Download SP1 today!

Yesterday we released our first Service Pack for SQL Server 2005 . You might remember a while back I had written a small post about being hard at work on SP1. Back then I avoided giving any details for fear of running afoul of corporate policy but since
Posted by denisruc | 3 Comments
Saturday, December 03, 2005 10:08 PM

Working on SP1

It's funny how I thought that with SQL Server 2005 out the door I'd have more time to spend on this blog and other long-delayed projects. Boy was I wrong! We kicked the SP1 work in high gear the minute we shipped SQL Server. I probably cannot reveal much
Posted by denisruc | 1 Comments
Friday, October 28, 2005 2:02 PM

The long road to SQL Server 2005 ends here.

This blog’s been very quiet this past couple of weeks, and for a very good reason; we were all hard at work putting the finishing touches to SQL Server 2005. We RTM’ed yesterday and if you’re an MSDN subscriber you can already download it (along with
Posted by denisruc | 0 Comments
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:02 AM

Branching

When I started this blog 3 months ago my sole intent was to share knowledge pertaining to the XML data type in SQL Server 2005. I didn’t think I’d write about anything else. I didn’t even think there was anything else I wanted to write about. Well, it
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:30 PM

Windows Media Center's popularity on the rise

According to this report Media Centers are gaining in popularity. I bought one myself a week ago and I'm very happy with it. I was looking at purchasing a new desktop, mainly for work-related activities, and for my wife to edit her digital pictures. As
Posted by denisruc | 8 Comments
Friday, September 02, 2005 7:24 PM

Sad and grateful all at the same time

I apologize in advance for a post that has nothing to do with SQL Server but I have this urge to express the sorrow and anger I’ve been feeling these past few days. Before you go any further please be mindful that the opinions expressed in this post are
Posted by denisruc | 10 Comments
Wednesday, August 03, 2005 7:22 PM

Back from TechReady

I spent a good portion of my day at TechReady as a proctor for the hands-on labs. I met a few people who were going through the "XML Capabilities" tutorial. Unfortunately my duties in the lab prevented me from attending our PM 's talk on XML. On the bright
Posted by denisruc | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 3:49 PM

Improved error messages

Somebody seems to like the fact that we recently added XPaths in validation error messages. I was pretty happy to read Bob's post since I lobbied for that feature, helped design it, and tested it. Prior to this all we gave the user was along the lines
Posted by denisruc | 2 Comments
Monday, June 13, 2005 5:27 PM

Welcome

Welcome to my newly created blog. My name is Denis Ruckebusch. I've been part of the test organization at Microsoft for the past 6 years. I spent the last 4 working on the new XML datatype feature in SQL Server 2005. My main area of focus is typed XML.
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