Tag: SQL Server

Live from the VS/SQL/Windows 2008 launch

Feb 28, 2008 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In this, my first post of (hopefully) several today, I'm sitting in the keynote session (next to Douglas McDowell), listening to Tom Brokaw warm up the audience. What a nice surprise. It definitely …

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Remembering Jim Gray and a Tribute

Feb 12, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Time flies. It has been a year since Dr. Gray, a Microsoft research fellow and Turing Award-winner, went missing while sailing off San Francisco. A year ago, at Boise Code Camp 2.0, I hosted a session …

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SQL Server 2008 November CTP Available

Nov 20, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I've been so involved with the VSTS RTM yesterday, that I almost didn't notice this one. Click here to download the latest SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP) and try out the latest …

SQL Server

US Tech-Ed 2008 To Be Two Conferences

Nov 15, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

It seems that the US Tech-Ed is following Europe's lead, by breaking up the one large conference into two: one for developers and one for IT professionals. June 3-6, 2008 - Developers (developers, …

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Microsoft Positioned in the leader quadrant in Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse DBMS, 2007

Oct 17, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Way to go Microsoft, and SQL Server 2005! For the first time in the report’s history, Microsoft is positioned in the Leader quadrant in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse DBMS. The analysts …

Microsoft SQL Server

TFS Operations Guidance

Oct 2, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thanks to the Team System Rangers (an elite squad of TFS experts inside Microsoft) for putting together this document, which serves as a single point of entry into the world of TFS Operations as well …

Microsoft SQL Server Visual Studio ALM

Code that Writes Code (or TSQL that writes ASP.NET)

Sep 18, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Call it a code generator, software factory, or just a clever script. If you can write code that writes code - you win, even if just a small victory for humans in this contest we call software …

SQL Server

TFS Migration & Synchronization Tool For ClearCase Released

Sep 14, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Yesterday, Microsoft released a tool to migrate from IBM ClearCase to TFS. Find more information on TFS migration topics, keep an eye on this blog.

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XML Notepad 2007!

Sep 13, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

My students this week told me about the new version. I remember using the original XML Notepad, and it was great, very simple. For the longest time, I couldn't find it on Microsoft's site to download, …

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