Thanks to Christopher Bowen for reminding me to use the Visual Studio 2005 newgroups! There's finally a reasonable amount of traffic there, and its a great place to get your questions …
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Yukon just keeps getting better and better
I downloaded and installed (into VPC naturally) the December Community Technical Preview (CTP) for SQL Server 2005 today. Let me tell you that it looks good, and appears quite stable. Of course, I …
Read more →Community Days 2005 Tour announced
Microsoft and Netdesk just announced the content and tour stops and dates for Q3 (Feb-Mar 2005).
The topic is Visual Studio 2005 on SQL Server 2005. Should be awesome!
Read more →A Cal-Tech spinoff company, iSpheres, plans to publish an early version of the EPL software, short for Event Programming Language, by month's end. It will be royalty free to end users. They plan to …
Read more →Recompiling in SQL Server 2005
Thanks to Bob Beauchemin for pointing out this great paper on Batch Compilation, Recompilation, and Plan Caching Issues in SQL Server 2005.
Read more →SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 Resource DVD
The SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 Resource DVD is your guide to SQL Server 2005. This DVD contains valuable materials and technical resources to help you understand and utilize the many new and enhanced …
Read more →Features not implemented in SQL Server 2005 Beta 2
I'll be adding to this list throughout my journey with the Beta 2
XQuery Designer IntelliSense is not implemented for T-SQL Editors Database Diagrams / Visual DB Tools Date, Time, and UTCDateTime data …
Read more →1 Beyond has just released a 64-bit laptop. So, for those of us who travel and present on the latest technology, such as 64-bit Windows-XP, 64-bit SQL Server, and 64-bit Whidbey, it makes it possible! …
Read more →No Crystal Reports to RDL conversion tool from Hitachi Consulting
Many of us has heard rumors about such a tool. Reading their business card on the SQL Reporting Services partners page, you'd think that their RDL Generator would be a hit; but, …
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