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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Digital Agencies : SQL</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/alexsmith/archive/tags/SQL/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: SQL</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Web Platform Compete Playbook</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/alexsmith/archive/2009/08/21/web-platform-compete-playbook.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:46:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3275589</guid><dc:creator>Xandergraph</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/alexsmith/comments/3275589.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/alexsmith/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3275589</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;Excellent web platform playbook has been added the Partner Network -&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;"This resource is designed to help Microsoft solutions partners quickly locate up-to-date, relevant Microsoft Web Platform content from a variety of sources in order to better learn, prepare, and compete."&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A title="Web Platform Compete Playbook" href="https://partner.microsoft.com/global/salesmarketingsection/smsalesprep/40109336" mce_href="https://partner.microsoft.com/global/salesmarketingsection/smsalesprep/40109336"&gt;Find out more here&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;.::. Alex&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3275589" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/alexsmith/archive/tags/Web+Agency/default.aspx">Web Agency</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/alexsmith/archive/tags/Windows+Server/default.aspx">Windows Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/alexsmith/archive/tags/SQL/default.aspx">SQL</category></item><item><title>SQL Server Options</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/alexsmith/archive/2008/10/28/sql-server-options.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3143073</guid><dc:creator>Xandergraph</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/alexsmith/comments/3143073.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/alexsmith/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3143073</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt"&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;It’s one of those things that over the years I haven’t really thought much about. Like my clients, when I was working in web agency, I really didn’t worry too much about the SQL server we used – but I can’t think of any project where it wasn’t Microsoft SQL server. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt"&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt"&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;We needed a server, it was part of the project, we paid for it, it worked, there were no problems and everything&amp;nbsp;was fine. On reflection it shows the type of organisations we were working with and web development we were doing at the time.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt"&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;However, there are options which you may have never considered or could offer a competitive edge to a bid with a customer -&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoListParagraph style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"&gt;·&lt;SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/express.aspx"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;SQL Server 2008 Express&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"&gt; is a free and productive database that offers all the SQL Server programmability and allows users to seamlessly grow up to Enterprise level of functionality when and if required. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoListParagraph style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;·&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/web.aspx"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff size=3&gt;SQL Server 2008 Web edition&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt; is a cost-effective and highly scalable database for corporate Web sites.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoListParagraph style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;·&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;The new &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.codeplex.com/SQL2K5PHP"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff size=3&gt;SQL Server PHP Driver&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;SPAN class=MsoHyperlink&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"&gt;enables PHP developers to continue to use PHP but target SQL Server&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt 18pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri size=3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0.1pt 0cm 0.5pt"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;.::. Alex&lt;SPAN style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3143073" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/alexsmith/archive/tags/Web+Agency/default.aspx">Web Agency</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/alexsmith/archive/tags/SQL/default.aspx">SQL</category></item></channel></rss>