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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:06 PM

SDS is now a Killer Database in the Cloud

I've been working on SQL Server and SQL Data Services evangelism for the past year and half. There was a period of time when SDS didn't look much like SQL Server so telling the story of how SDS fit into the Microsoft Data Platform was much more difficult.
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Monday, February 09, 2009 3:15 PM

SQL Server Driver for PHP Requires the SQL Server 2005 ODBC Driver

I was banging my head against a wall for a while today trying to track down a issue that wasn't letting my PHP 5.2.8 app do a basic connection to SQL Server 2008. I kept getting the following error. SQLSTATE: IM002 message: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager]
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:25 PM

Back to My Roots

It's been a while since my last post and this one isn't going to be able FileStream API's, SQL Data Services or other SQL Server features... Continue reading at your own risk :) I started off my software career working as a Partner in a small web-application
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:31 AM

TechEd 2008 Developers – A Mi Gente de Southworks (ES)

By Zach Skyles Owens (Perdona mi español) Acabo de escribir como la dedicación del equipo de desarrollo fue el clave a nuestro éxito. Aparte de los ingenieros a Microsoft trabajamos con Southworks que es un grupo de gente muy apasionante de su trabajo
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:10 AM

TechEd 2008 Developers - Shout Out to Dev Team

By Zach Skyles Owens There were a lot of people involved with pulling together the Data Platform Demo for the TechEd Keynote. I want to take a minute to quickly thank the Southworks team who's dedication really made the difference. Special thanks to Tim
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:46 AM

TechEd 2008 Developers - Data Platform Keynote EDM/SSDS/SQL Data Types

By Zach Skyles Owens One of the biggest challenges we faced when designing this demo was trying to make the breadth of Microsoft's Data Platform technologies easily understandable in 5 minutes. The major architecture components are SQL Server 2008 , SQL
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:42 AM

TechEd 2008 Developers - Data Platform Keynote Demo Architecture

By Zach Skyles Owens Just minutes ago at TechEd 2008 Developers in Orlando Dave Campbell, Technical Fellow, was on stage with Bill Gates doing the Data Platform demo which included a host of exciting Microsoft Technologies. SQL Server 2008 - Supports
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Monday, March 10, 2008 11:53 AM

What is SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) Anyway?

After blogging about SSDS I saw that people are wondering what Microsoft's Cloud Storage offering is all about. One reader asked... Is it Windows Live Sky Drive? Is it Astoria? The answer is no... It's neither of the two above although it does have some
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:08 AM

Microsoft Cloud Storage Is Finally Here

For those who have been following Microsoft’s S+S message you may be excited to hear about SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) which was announced at the MIX08 Keynote today. So what is this new cloud storage offering by Microsoft anyway? Microsoft hosted
Posted by ZachSkylesOwens | 1 Comments
Monday, March 03, 2008 10:13 PM

To FILESTREAM or not to FILESTREAM... That is the question.

Roger and I have been delivering a demo which highlights Spatial and FILESTREAM features of SQL Server 2008. One of the common things we've heard from developers is... For years we've been told that large binary files should never be stored in the database...
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Monday, March 03, 2008 10:00 PM

SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM and WPF MediaElement - Part 2 (Writing FILESTREAM Data)

Wow... It's been a long time coming. I promised that I would explain in more detail how to write FILESTREAM data to SQL Server 2008. This is the second article in a series and uses the sample published on the SQL Server Community Samples site on CodePlex
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:27 AM

Feature Complete CTP

As of yesterday the SQL Server 2008 February CTP is available for download here . This is a really exciting release as it's feature complete and is localized. Take a look and make sure to provide feedback through MSDN and TechNet.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:39 AM

FILESTREAM Support in SQL Server Express

A couple great questions came up last week when discussing FILESTREAM with some people within the Microsoft field which I thought were worth sharing.   Q: Will SQL Server 2008 Express edition support FILESTREAM? A: It sure will!   Q: Will the
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:18 AM

22 Business Intelligence Screencasts Released

It has been a long time coming and I'm really excited to announce that we have finally released a series of 22 screencasts on the SQL Server Channel 9 site .  These screencasts were part of a global training event taking the student through BI project
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:04 AM

New SQL Server CodePlex Site

Roger Doherty and I recently launched the SQL Server End-to-End Community Samples site on CodePlex .  We have been successful in recruiting a few developers so you should start to see the samples really start to flow.  I encourage you to download
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