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Monday, October 26, 2009 8:45 PM

New Career Campaign From Microsoft Learning

UPDATED 27 October 2009 with the correct expiration date for the E-Learning Collections discount (thanks, Lain !). Whether you are currently unemployed, looking for a promotion, or trying to become indispensible in your existing role, Microsoft has launched
Posted by Ward Pond | 2 Comments
Monday, October 26, 2009 7:30 PM

Pond’s Laws Home Page Now Live

Thanks to yet another kick-in-the-pants from Jimmy May (did he play soccer as a youth?) the Pond’s Laws Home Page is now live. Jimmy wanted to find all of Pond’s Laws in one place, and now he (and you) can. There’s also a link to the new page in the A
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:45 PM

Windows 7 Now Available

You might have heard about this somewhere else.. but Windows 7 was launched today . I recently got an upgraded laptop from my employer, upon which I installed Windows 7. Both the machine and the software are quite remarkable. First, the machine, so you
Posted by Ward Pond | 3 Comments
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:45 PM

Pond’s Thirteenth Law: Change Won’t Be Cheaper Tomorrow

Herewith, a discussion of the emergence of Pond’s Thirteenth Law (if you need to catch up, here are Laws One through Ten , Eleven , and Twelve , as well as three ruminations on the implications of Pond’s Seventh Law ).. One of the great things about my
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:15 AM

Beta 2 Release for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Available for Download

Exciting news for the developer community: yesterday Microsoft released the second beta for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.  Click here for the download page. If you need it, go get it! -wp this copyrighted material was originally posted
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:30 AM

Mark Your Calendar: Windows 7 Readiness Webcast on October 6

The following description of a pending webcast arrived in my inbox earlier this week; I thought it might be of interest to some of you as you prepare for the launch of Windows 7: Is Your Organization Ready for Windows 7? October 6, 2009 12:00 PM Eastern
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Monday, September 28, 2009 9:15 PM

A Gift From Jens and Jimmy

Two Microsoft folks frequently featured in this space, Microsoft Certified Masters Jimmy May and Jens Suessmeyer , have joined forces to bring to the world SQLIOSimParser, a tool to parse and interpret the XML output of the Bob Dorr’s SQLIOSim testing
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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
Posted by Ward Pond | 0 Comments
Wednesday, September 09, 2009 9:09 AM

Pond’s Twelfth Law: In Your Pursuit of Five Nines, Don’t Practice in Front of the CIO

After a long hiatus , Pond’s Laws of System Design (or, How to Be a Competent Professional in an Irrational World) returns. Thanks to Jimmy May for a kick-in-the-pants on this topic several months ago; I hope he’ll understand why I just had to wait until
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Monday, September 07, 2009 6:15 PM

Database Programming: A New String Concatenation Contender for SQL Server 2008

UPDATED 11:11p 7 September 2009: Based on my latest exchange with Adam (see the comments for this post), compound operators should be avoided for string concatenation due to the ORDER BY bug discused in KB 287515 . The XML variant below is the preferred
Posted by Ward Pond | 7 Comments
Friday, September 04, 2009 5:30 PM

Database Programming: Did You Know IN Can Do This?

Courtesy of Jens Suessmeyer comes this little gem purloined from an internal discussion; cut-and-paste this into SQL Server Management Studio and see if you can answer the questions in the comments before you execute the script: --   create and populate
Posted by Ward Pond | 4 Comments
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:30 AM

Download a New Browser and Help Feed the Hungry

I sure wish I’d known about this sooner.. If you haven’t yet downloaded Internet Explorer 8, here’s a great opportunity to acquire some fantastic software and help out some folks less fortunate than we are in the bargain. If you download Internet Explorer
Posted by Ward Pond | 0 Comments
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 7:45 PM

Adam Machanic Likes MERGE, Too

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s MERGE discussion comes a complementary (and far more detailed) take from Adam Machanic .  It’s a nifty technical discussion, under the banner of an outstanding Dr. Strangelove pun. To see some of the true power of
Posted by Ward Pond | 0 Comments
Monday, August 24, 2009 9:30 AM

Database Programming: Why I Like MERGE

In the wake of last month’s post on my new development efforts in SQL Server 2008, several of you have asked me to go into further detail.  This post is my first effort to answer those questions; right now, we’ll focus on these two , which relate
Posted by Ward Pond | 2 Comments
Thursday, August 06, 2009 8:45 PM

At the Onset of My Fiftieth Year

Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook are aware that I’ve spent the last week and a half dealing with my latest round of health issues.  I returned home yesterday afternoon following a brief hospitalization for diagnosis and removal of
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