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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:18 PM

UK SQL User Group Presents: "Concurrency in SQL Server 2005, Kalen Delaney Full Day Seminar: 18th Oct 2005."

Tony Rogerson of the UK SQL User group has asked me to advertise this event.  I think it will be of general interest but also of interest to people migrating or thinking of migrating from Oracle.  And remember you've still got three days to
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 3:38 PM

SQL Server 2005 Technical Overview blogcasts

New SQL Server 2005 Technical Overview blogcasts from the States   Demo 1-1 Using Object Explorer    http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0509/25037/SQL-01_Demo1.asx   Demo 2-1 Using Queries and Scripts  http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0509/25037/SQL-01_Demo2-1.asx Demo
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:59 AM

OLAP, Darwin and Evolution

Edited 21st Sept 05 to include picture of herbarium sheet.   In my article 'Business Intelligence (BI): The way it is without the blah blah', I mention that I was aware of some exiting research using the SQL Server OLAP engine, the results of which
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Friday, September 16, 2005 4:54 PM

Database Mirroring won't make RTM

Edited 20/9/05 to correct typos As Paul Flessner says in his letter http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2005/productinfo/letter.mspx Database Mirroring won't make it in the RTM (Release To Manufacturing) release for SQL 2005.  It will be there for
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 5:27 PM

SQL Server Integration Services Samples - Including Fuzzy Logic

At a recent Technet presentation, someone came up to me and asked me if I could post my Fuzzy Logic sample package to my Blog.  I confess I haven't got round to wrapping it all up, but now it looks like I'm off the hook as one has been supplied with
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:50 PM

Bill Gates - A short chat with Microsoft's Chief Software Architect

Its not really SQL Server, but this short 16min video comes from the guy who ultimately takes resposibility for SQL.  Bill is asked a number of interesting questions that put his contimued relationship with Microsoft under the spotlight 
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Monday, September 12, 2005 10:27 PM

Getting to know SQL 2005 Service Broker

Looks likes I've got to do a presentation on Service Broker for the SQL 2005 launch - so I've been doing some home work on the subject. The best primer I've found is http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/sqlsvcbroker.asp?frame=true this
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 6:11 PM

SQL 2005: Making sense of the new Optimistic Concurrency Controls and the readers that block writers

For a long time now Oracle enthusiasts have bashed SQL Server for not having Optimistic Concurrency Controls.  They would demonstrate a SQL Server reader blocking a writer and possibly a writer blocking a reader.  Thus, having appeared to demonstrate
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 10:31 AM

IT Forum - Barcelona 15th - 17th November

The tag line for IT Forum is "3 days of learning one year of solutions" - I'm sure you can sell that to your boss. If you do the details are here http://www.mseventseurope.com/msitforum/05/pre/content/default.aspx
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