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Monday, October 31, 2005 11:47 AM
SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 available
Great news - we RTMd on Friday and made it available for download to MSDN Subscribers. Two great products - enjoy them! Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/
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Monday, October 17, 2005 7:44 AM
Getting started with WinFX - nice UK resource
At the moment my life still revolves around SQL Server 2005 - but come January I need to look marginally competent with WinFX :-) Thankfully I just spotted this little beauty - http://www.roadtowinfx.com/ . A UK site pulling together info on WinFX development
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Monday, October 10, 2005 8:19 AM
SQL Server - is it fast enough to run my solution?
When I joined Microsoft 9 years back the most common question I heard about SQL Server was "Is it fast enough?". This was worded in so many different ways - but boiled down to a perception part based on fact (SQL Server 6.0/7.0) and part based on some
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Monday, October 10, 2005 8:15 AM
SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver Beta 2
The new SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver Beta 2 is now live on the web http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2005/jdbc.mspx . We’ve had a very positive community response for this product so far and we’re on the home stretch for our release. Enjoy
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Monday, October 10, 2005 8:09 AM
Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005 Launch Tour Details for the UK - register now (and FREE VS and SQL!)
We are so close to launch now I can smell it! This is a very big launch for Microsoft UK - and hence there is a main Launch Event in Birmingham on Nov 8th followed by three regional events - London, Harrogate and Edinburgh. I will be hosting some of my
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Monday, October 10, 2005 8:05 AM
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 drops under 1 dollar per transaction in TPC-C
Just spotted that Dell published a TPC-C result of 99cents per transaction for SQL Server 2005! Top work! Oracle (bless them) are nearly twice as expensive! Check out http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_price_perf_results.asp . Dells entry is described
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Monday, October 10, 2005 7:56 AM
Architect Forum event in the UK, Friday Dec 9th (and Oct 24th)
My group works with Developers and Architects in the UK - and as part of our enegagement with Architects we run the Architect Forum. Dec 9th will be the next delivery for solution architects (folks architecting applications). We have a number of our colleagues
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