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Microsoft .NET Data Provider for SAP

After my recent SQL 2k5 BI session, here at TVP Reading, I had an enquiry asking for more info regarding the SAP provider I showed in the list of providers available to SQL Server Integration Services .  The best public information I can find

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 

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

How Do You Deploy SQL Server Reporting Services?

A colleague of mine in the States, Rob Caron, is very keen to learn how our customers are deploying Reporting Services; specifically with respect to IIS. When we launched Reporting Services (RS) it was all too easy to say it was a ‘free’ addition to

SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver Beta 1 Now Available

Not many people know we have a SQL JDBC driver at all, well now we've got a beta version for SQL Server 2005.  It works for a wide variety of OSs including: HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, or Windows XP.  Apparently

Roger Sessions ObjectWatch: TechEd USA - his digest - insight from a true sage that can't be ignored

This issue’s feature article is “Tech-Ed 2005; The Elephant That Wasn’t There”.  This article reports on  Microsoft’s major Tech-Ed 2005 conference in Orlando earlier this month. This was the conference at which Microsoft laid out its strategy