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January 2005 - Posts

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:01 PM

Recommended quick read on Microsoft Indigo

Something I get asked about frequently when I meet with UK ISVs is "Indigo - what is it exactly?" Well, Visual Studio Magazine has a great short interview with A ri Bixhorn, lead product manager of Web Services Strategy in the Developer and Platform Division
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Monday, January 24, 2005 5:09 PM

Microsoft PDC dates announced - September 13 – 16, 2005

No details yet - but hold those dates! http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/
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Monday, January 24, 2005 4:56 PM

Securing an application - checkout the blackbelt webcasts

The Digital Blackbelt webcast series discusses security risks, vulnerabilities, and solutions from the software developer's perspective. They start February 4th - and promise to tackle head on an important area for all of us. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/digitalblackbelt.msp
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Monday, January 24, 2005 4:49 PM

New article on XML options for SQL Server 2005 - including a nifty comparison

This looks a good read to clarify the options around using XML with SQL Server 2005. I like the comparion table at the end - enjoy. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/sql2k5xmloptions.asp
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Monday, January 24, 2005 4:35 PM

Early feedback on migration to SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

As it happens - I am sitting in a lab with two of early adopters looking at SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. I also know virtually nothing about Analysis Services so others in the team are helping them. Which leaves me to "have a browse". I just came
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Thursday, January 20, 2005 2:28 PM

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP4 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services SP2 are open for Public Beta Testing

SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4) includes a roll-up of bug fixes, added platform support for AMD64, and Intel Extended Platforms in WOW so you can use 32-bit applications on 64-bit architectures. This is the first service pack to service the 64-bit
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Monday, January 17, 2005 1:03 PM

SQL Server 2005 Service Broker sites and articles

So - I realised the other day that across all my early adopters I don't have any active on Service Broker. It occurred to me that in part, this is because I haven't really been championing. As it so happens I then came across a US ISV over in the UK that
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Thursday, January 13, 2005 5:28 PM

SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Site - completely missed this one

I am slowly dragging myself from the world of OLTP to the world of analytics - and todays discovery was this great site owned by the Microsoft team responsible for our data mining technologies. Well worth a read. Check out http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/DMCommunity/default.asp
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Thursday, January 13, 2005 5:22 PM

Happy New Year All

I hope you all had a great break and so far 2005 has been kind to you. Nope - I haven't stopped blogging - I have just had a lovely long Christmas break which was preceded by a one week development lab with four of our SQL Server 2005 early adopters -
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