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January 2006 - Posts

Cell and Row Level Security in SQL Server 2005

They really need to stop hiding this cool papers from me on Technet, there are only so many hours in the day... Great paper on Cell and Row Level Security in SQL Server 2005 can be found here . Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 0 Comments
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All SKU/Language Combos for SQL Server 2005 now available

As I discussed back in Dec it takes us several months to release all of the language/SKU combinations of SQL Server. While the rest of us have been off having fun on SP1 and the next version the release services team and Loc team have been beavering away Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 0 Comments
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SQL MythBusters – "SQL Server is really a Sybase product not a Microsoft one."

There are lots of variations on this myth that I have heard/read over the years, most amusing of which is probably “Microsoft has not had time to mess up the Sybase code it bought yet so SQL Server is still a pretty solid product” Lets start with a history Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 6:02 AM by euanga | 33 Comments

SQL Server JDBC Driver RTMs

You can download the new SQL Server 2000/2005 JDBC Driver here . If you have not been following this is a new JDBC driver that we built from scratch(the previous one was licensed), it includes perf and transaction support improvements as well as support Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 6:01 AM by euanga | 13 Comments
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New category of blog entry: SQL Myth Busters

Over the Christmas break I was reading some good stuff on Slashdot(yes I know that seems like a contradiction, especially for a Microsoft employee, but bear with me) and one of their articles was an interview with the guys on the Discovery Channels MythBusters Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 0 Comments

Pablo's cool code from PDC ADO.NET Session

Pablo Castro's session on ADO.Net 2.0 at PDC was one of the highest rated we had, he has finally posted all his code here . Update: Wow thats a lot of typos for a short entry, must get back to using blogjet. Fixed Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 1 Comments
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SQL Writer Service in SQL Server 2005

Totally missed this very informative article when it came out (might have been in a PDC panic). Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 0 Comments
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PSS Service Center Labs available

The PSS Service Center labs we used at this year's PASS conference in TX are now available on the web for download here These are great simple self-paced troubleshooting training sessions that you may find helpful. Thanks to Bob and the other kinds folks Read More...
Posted Friday, January 06, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 0 Comments
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Tracking down Dev Team (and friends) blogging

Welcome to the New Year and some changes to the blog. The first is that I decided to try and track down all the MS folks from the Dev team and elsewhere blogging, I've started adding them as links in the root of the blog. If you know of others please Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 7 Comments
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