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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>Spatial Ed : Spatial</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/archive/tags/Spatial/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Spatial</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>SQL SERVER SPATIAL BUGS...</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/archive/2008/03/05/sql-server-spatial-bugs.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:03:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8054670</guid><dc:creator>EdKatibah</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/comments/8054670.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8054670</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"&gt;As part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 February CTP Bug Bash Contest, we are looking for spatial bugs!&amp;nbsp; The entrant with the largest number of reproducible non-duplicate SQL Server 2008 Spatial bugs submitted during the entry period will win an Xbox Elite.&amp;nbsp; At last check, we had 1 entrant with 1 bug - surely there must be more...&amp;nbsp; Hurry, the Bug Bash ends at 11:59PM PT on March 15, 2008.&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"&gt;Please go to:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/content/content.aspx?ContentID=7734" mce_href="https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/content/content.aspx?ContentID=7734"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"&gt;https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/content/content.aspx?ContentID=7734&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;to get started.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"&gt;Make sure that you select the checkbox “This entry is for the SQL Server 2008 February CTP Bug Bash Contest.” &amp;nbsp;If your entry does not include this option, it will automatically not be counted.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"&gt;The Xbox is coming out of my budget and I want my money's worth&amp;nbsp;- let’s see those bugs!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8054670" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/archive/tags/Spatial/default.aspx">Spatial</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/archive/tags/CTP-6/default.aspx">CTP-6</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/archive/tags/February+CTP/default.aspx">February CTP</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/archive/tags/Bugs/default.aspx">Bugs</category></item><item><title>Introduction</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/archive/2008/02/28/introduction.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:45:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7940952</guid><dc:creator>EdKatibah</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/comments/7940952.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/commentrss.aspx?PostID=7940952</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"&gt;Welcome to my first blog effort. Many of you in the spatial world may already know me.&amp;nbsp; For everyone else, I am the Spatial Program Manager for SQL Server.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;I’ve been working in the spatial/GIS field much longer than I wish to admit, with prior engagements at Informix Software and IBM in the recent past.&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"&gt;Between Isaac (&lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/isaac/" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/isaac/"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/isaac/&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;) and myself, we should have SQL Server Spatial and related areas of interest&amp;nbsp;pretty well covered.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"&gt;Thanks,&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Ed Katibah&lt;BR&gt;Microsoft SQL Server Spatial&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7940952" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/archive/tags/Spatial/default.aspx">Spatial</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edkatibah/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category></item></channel></rss>