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March 2006 - Posts

The March of the Benchmarks continues - Itanium Dual Core

WOW First benchmark with Dual Core Itanium, performance at a great price! The amusing fact with this number is that it is higher than the score we got with the first DPV based benchmark for SQL Server 2000, which used 96 procs, this uses 4! Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 1 Comments
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More free money from Express Editions!

Well Amazon "money" at least. Instead of coming up with a cool app, this time all you have to do is tell us about an existing one you have and cha-ching $100 is yours! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 2 Comments
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New SQL Team Blogging - The ISV Team

Continuing the blog roll of teams/people blogging in SQL Server we have a new team here . I've worked with some of these folks on and off for 7 years, they are a great bunch and you will recognise some of the names from white papers and conferences. Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 0 Comments
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Woop Woop...SQL Server Wins Best Database at the Jolt Awards

Yipee Oh and congrats to Brad who was nominated for Design Guidelines (still waiting for my copy to arrive from Amazon) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 2 Comments
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SQL Server 2005 SP1 CTP Available

Grant just sent the mail, 2040 is the SP1 CTP build. Now this post will not appear until tomorrow at 6am so I don't know for sure but the build should be available here a couple of hours after I write this (16:00 Pacific Mar 15). As with all SPs there Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 16, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 18 Comments
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Made in... SQL Server Express Edition Contest

Wanna win $10,000? Wanna have a blog that 1,000s of new readers will read? Enter the Made in Express Contest Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 14, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 2 Comments
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SQL MythBusters – MSDE/SQL Express has a 5 concurrent user limit

Oh man, if I had a quid for every time this has been answered in the newsgroups or at conferences it would be time to retire for sure! While validating this myth does not require another history lesson it might be useful. MSDE 1.0 The first version of Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 40 Comments

Jim Gray on behind the code

Its always good to sit and listen to/watch Jim. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 6:00 AM by euanga | 2 Comments
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