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Monday, September 28, 2009 8:45 PM

SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP Available for Download

If you’re interested in the next release of SQL Server, the BI-focused SQL Server 2008 R2, you’ll be pleased to know that the August CTP is available for download here for MSDN and TechNet members. Here’s the skinny from the download page: SQL Server
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Monday, March 09, 2009 9:15 PM

As Spring Approaches, a SQL Blogger’s Thoughts Turn to Daylight and Baseball

As we progress towards the Ides of March, one of my best friends-who-I’ve-never-met, Jimmy May , notes our annual transition to Daylight Savings Time , in a post he generously concludes with a link to one of this very blog’s oldies but goodies . In his
Posted by Ward Pond | 2 Comments
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:45 PM

Just What *is* the Current SQL Server Patch Level, Anyway?

Courtesy of Ben Lam’s question and Arvind Shyamsundar’s answer comes the following list of resources for keeping up with SQL Server product update releases: You can sign up for security bulletin-related email alerts from Microsoft here (Windows Live ID
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Friday, October 10, 2008 12:00 PM

Log Buffer #118: a Carnival of the Vanities for the DBA

UPDATED 16 Oct 2008 to fix a broken link. UPDATED 10 Oct 2008 to reflect Giuseppe's comment . Welcome to installation #118 of Log Buffer , the weekly review of database blogs. Today, we’re gonna party like it’s 1999 ! For those of you who might be new
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Saturday, September 13, 2008 10:15 PM

One Little Thing I Missed..

..while we were preparing for our move.. The company chose my 48th birthday (two days before the movers descended on us) as the RTM date for SQL Server 2008.  There's a full download available here (subscription required); the free Express version
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Friday, April 25, 2008 6:45 PM

Two Pieces of Technical News from Kalen

Kalen Delaney has one of the most consistently informative SQL Server blogs in all of the Internets, and unless I miss my guess, it was also she who left the first of the very supportive comments I've received in the wake of my recent series of personal
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:45 PM

CTP 6 of SQL Server 2008 Is Now Available For Download

The latest CTP of SQL Server 2008 is available for download at the Microsoft Connect website, here . The list of new features in this release is pretty impressive: Progress-Based Management: policy violation alerts, policy import, running and evaluating
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:30 PM

Lubor Offers a Wonderful Synopsis of Partitioning

One of the best parts of my current job is that the email distribution lists I'm on allow me to be a "fly on the wall" for some very interesting, educational conversations. Terry started this one off by asking a question: I’ve heard it recommended that
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Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:15 PM

CTP4 Of PerformancePoint Server 2007 Available For Download

The fourth and final CTP for PerformancePoint Server 2007 is now available for download here . Those of you into BI scorecarding should definitely go get it! -wp
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Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:30 PM

Microsoft BI Conference 2007: Days 2 and 3

As the great John Lennon once said, "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." I had hoped to spend all of Thursday and most of Friday at the BI Conference, but some late-breaking issues at work pulled me away from the two Thursday afternoon
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 5:00 PM

Microsoft BI Conference 2007: Day 1

As I mentioned yesterday , I'm attending the inaugural Microsoft BI Conference at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in downtown Seattle. There are over 2600 people in attendance. In addition to the "canned" presentations, there are a number
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:30 PM

Networking Opportunity: See You At The Microsoft BI Conference!

In the midst of week three of our third SQL Ranger rotation, I'm going to take a powder for three days and attend the first-ever Microsoft BI Conference at the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle for the rest of this week. I'll be posting
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Friday, March 09, 2007 7:30 PM

New To SSIS? Come Take A Guided Tour..

One of the more interesting and perhaps challenging aspects of a SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 upgrade is the migration from DTS to SSIS for ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) activities. SSIS isn't an upgrade of DTS, but is in fact an entirely new, and
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Friday, November 17, 2006 4:45 PM

SQL PASS 2006, Day 5

The SQL PASS 2006 Community Summit wraps up this afternoon. The entire conference has run very smoothly; the organizers and volunteers should be very pleased with themselves. I got here this morning just in time for David Ca mpbell's keynote. David was
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Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:00 PM

SQL PASS 2006, Day 4

Another day at the SQL PASS 2006 Community Summit , and my education continues on more axes than I would've thought possible. The day started very early, with Quest Software 's breakfast seminar, The Growing World of SQL Server: Surviving The Data Avalanche
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