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In part 3 of my odyssey into the world of express development I’m ready to actually start development. I have a virtual machine (vm) with Microsoft’s free web development kit installed which comprises Visual Studio 2008 express for development and
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My development skills are so old that the term 4GL and client server were the buzzwords of the day back then, so I thought it was about time I had look at what’s out there now. A quick search on Microsoft web development on Bing got me to the Microsoft
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I see a lot of tweets, and questions on forums about SQL Server Express from developers, particularly around installing it on client versions of windows, so I though I’ll give it a go and see if there is nay truth to the rumours. Rather than try it on
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Usually when I mention SQL Server and map in the same blog it’s a post on geospatial data but not today; today I want to talk about assessment and planning your SQL Server infrastructure. I know of several DBA’s who don’t know how many SQL Servers
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I recently got a comment on my blog complaining about all of the editions of SQL Server, so why don’t Microsoft just stick to one? SQL Server gets everywhere, from a smart phone to a data centre and now the cloud (with SQL Sever data services). If you
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Day 22 of my virtual advent calendar, about stuff I like in SQL Server 2008.. SQL Server 2008 now has data types to store points lines and polygons in 2 spatial data type, Geometry and Geography. I have already posted quite extensively on spatial data,
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Having got past the pre-installation issues in my last post I am now ready to install SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services.. I ran the System Configuration Checker and got a set of green lights, except for PowerShell... and the install won’t
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I wanted to get Express installed on my machine and so I downloaded the RC0 (of Express with Advanced Services) and ran it. BTW there is is this Akamai download manager behind all of the RC0 downloads which you have to allow to run to get the download
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I was in a customer meeting today with David Portas of Conchango who is hard at work doing battle with the new FileStream data type in SQL Server 2008. He is developing a solution where large filestream objects are being pushed around a site from
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