This free 15 module, level 300 course provides students with the knowledge and skills to capitalize on their skills and experience as an Oracle DBA to manage a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 system. This workshop provides a quick start for the Oracle DBA to map, compare, and contrast the realm of Oracle database management to SQL Server database management.

You can view the series from here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dd548020.aspx

Wondering why your battery life of your laptop is not as good as the manufacturers claim?

powercfg -ENERGY

You need to run this command from the command prompt with administrator privileges (Run as Administrator). This command will perform a 60 second analysis of the computer’s energy consumption and provide you with a report: (by default in the system32 folder): C:\Windows\system32\energy-report.html

It lists the devices and drivers that hamper Sleep, or hinder that the full power saving features of your machine can not be utilized.

It also lists if your hardware is capable of S1, S2, S3 or S4 sleep modes.

It was announced at Tech Ed USA last week that building a failover cluster, comprising of Hyper-V guests, with SQL Server 2005 and 2008 installed, and clustered on the guest is now supported.

Up till now, clustering the hosts was only supported.

The KB article got updated yesterday.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=956893

All good Betas and Release Candidates need to expire some time. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are no exception.

Please upgrade before the expiry dates!

Introducing Bing Search by Microsoft. A Decision Engine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0rUzRAXGE 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK5IYlZECmE

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/presscentre/pressreleases/ProductLaunchPR_280509.mspx

So from 3 June 2009, don’t Google It, or Live It, Bing It!