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I have been at TechEd Berlin last week and when I wasn’t speaking I spent most of the time in the Learning Centre (TLC) or ask the experts. I must confess I felt a bit of a non-expert this year for two reasons; I have been spending time getting up to
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A lot of the things you need to do with SQL Server may well have been done before even if it’s using the new features in the new version , SQL Server 2008. The challenge is to find this stuff and be able to make use of that earlier effort
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There’s a lot of heat on MP’s expenses so if you want to quickly see how your local MP compares then have a look at them on Virtual Earth here .. What I like about this is that it shows the spikes, so in my neck of the woods this MP is in red because
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All editions of SQL Server 2008 hav the new spatial data type geometry and geography (including express) and if you want to know more about doing interesting stuff with spatial data you really need to get to Microsoft’s offices… on 16 April for a dedicated
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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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We are obsessed by the weather in this country, but I can’t say I have ever actually used it in a business intelligence solution. I know that Iceland (the frozen food people not the country) have a model that identifies an ideal BBQ day i.e. not
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SQL Server 2008 enables the use of geo-spatial data or location intelligence in four ways: a new geography data type (there's another one for 2D geometry), which can store points, lines, line segments and polygons A rich set of functions to make use of
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There's a lot of buzz around Software plus Services (S+S) from Microsoft and others. It's all very simple as Eileen will tell you - it's when you use a service like GPS that's remote and public and combine it with some software like CoPilot
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Continuing my series of notes following the TechNet event last Thursday evening, I wanted to explain that in SQL Server 2008 there are two new data types for storing spatial information; geometry and geography. Unfortunately on Thursday I
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