On the Road Again...soon

damirb — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:41:00 GMT

Well, it seems like only yesterday that I wrapped up the SQL Server 2005 Launch Tour and I'm off on another adventure across Canada!! This time my partner in technological information delivery will be Rick Claus, another IT Pro Advisor at Microsoft Canada. Rick is based in my home town of Ottawa and, unlike me now living in the Greater Toronto Area, can be a Senators fan without too much peer pressure thrust upon him by other family members.

Rick and I will be off on the TNX:TechNet Exchange Tour focusing on collaboration and communication. This means we are going to show you how to implement an infrastructure that includes Microsoft Exchange 2003, Windows SharePoint Services, and Live Communication Server 2005 to enable true collaboration among your internal and mobile workforce and extend this to Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. It promises to be an exciting all-day session filled with technical content that you can implement in your organization.

To get more information or to register for the TNX:TechNet Exchange Tour, go to http://www.microsoft.ca/technet/tnx. I look forward to seeing you there!!

SQL Server 2005 System Views Map Available for Download

damirb — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:10:00 GMT

If you're wondering what the names of all the system views in SQL Server 2005 are and what part of SQL Server they deal with, and how they relate to other system views, download the SQL Server 2005 System Views Map from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2EC9E842-40BE-4321-9B56-92FD3860FB32&displaylang=en. This is a PDF document that prints to a lovely 36 inch x36 inch (almost 1 meter by 1 meter) format so you'll need a big printer to make a poster out of it, but using Adobe Acrobat Reader you can zoom in and out of parts of the map to see relationships between different views. Very cool!!

Canadian IT Pro Data Base : SQL Server

On the Road Again...soon

SQL Server 2005 System Views Map Available for Download