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Wednesday, December 31, 2003 8:39 AM

Google Books Search Engine ...

Google, the leading search engine, introducted a capability to search within contents of books, this unnamed service was introduced about three weeks ago with no publicity. When used with regular Google searches, the feature returns links to passages
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Wednesday, December 31, 2003 8:11 AM

More on Windows XP SP2 ...

This is a dream requirement we have been wanting wrt Service Packs. A smaller executable. Windows XP SP2 introduces this feature with a whole lot of others. Check the document released by the Tech Writers on some of the changes made to this SP release
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Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:09 AM

Technology at its best and worst, 2003 - 2004

Worst Technology of 2003 - Paperless Voting Best Technology of 2003 - The Camera Phone 10 Technologies to watch in 2004 Cant ask for a better comparision ...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:51 AM

.NET CAS article

Seems to be a very nice article on .NET CAS from our famous Code Project site .
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Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:44 AM

XP SP2 - Beta 1 for MSDN subscribers

The long waited Windows XP SP2 is now available for all the MSDN Subscribers . Interesting that we are able to see the same after the announcement at PDC. (Via bink.nu )
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Wednesday, December 24, 2003 2:48 PM

Need for Languages ...

Paul Graham posts about what each language was desinged to fix . I think it give an interesting insight given on various lanuages ... Read them on ... (via Sriram )
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Wednesday, December 24, 2003 2:47 PM

Summary - ASP .NET 2.0

A quick review of ASP .NET 2.0 features listed on Suresh Blog (MVP .NET) ...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003 9:11 AM

Strong Names and Security in the .NET Framework

A nice article from Keith on Strong Names. Don't miss this article ... A must read for all ...
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Monday, December 22, 2003 4:46 PM

Using CLR to call an encryption routine in Yukon

Tim takes us around this unique requirement we wanted for years in SQL Server. Read the article ...
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Monday, December 22, 2003 4:37 PM

Madurai .NET Student Chapter Inaugural Meet ...

I was off to my home town and hence this looong gap. But there is a bigger update to the community work I am into. Yes, indeed we had the first DotNet Student Chapter user group at my hometown this Saturday (20 th Dec ’03). And I managed to address this
Posted by vinodkumar | 1 Comments
Monday, December 15, 2003 9:41 AM

Longhorn a longwait ?

Catch a recent thread on informationweek , analysts say it is going to be a long wait till they see the RTM of Longhorn. And I personally feel this is just a speculation. MS has tried to get the delivery on time, and they are working towards it ... But
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Saturday, December 13, 2003 5:47 PM

Session at BDotNet ...

This is something I wanted to write for a loooong time now. Yesterday we had a session on SQL Server by Srini and Gaurav to show the capabilities of calling a .NET component from SQL Server 2K ... Srini showed how we can create a CCW as a wrapper to the
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Friday, December 12, 2003 8:42 AM

Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability ...

The Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability project and document is in Beta 1. Its a great piece of content compiled. This is a must read for .NET Architects but I think it has exteremely relevant info and best practices for all serious
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Friday, December 12, 2003 8:31 AM

Windows 2003 ...

Windows Server 2003 Managing System Services is a thorough introduction to managing and troubleshooting services, and the accompanying Windows Server 2003 System Services Reference provides details on every single Windows 2003 service.
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Friday, December 12, 2003 8:19 AM

SQL Server Disaster Recovery ...

A new article on SQLJunkies about SQL Server disaster recovery . It also outlines using case studies on the various considerations when designing a disaster recovery strategy.
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Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:27 PM

Parade and your mouse ...

Today one of my friends send me this forward on a beautiful graphical parade with a nice music ... Just hear to the constant beat and move the mouse over the riders ...
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Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:34 AM

TPC results ...

This was a shock and this will increase the competetion and a better database designs for a better computing only ... From the shock you might have guessed ... My favourite SQL Server features in the fourth place on Windows 2003 ... But a strong competition
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 9:14 AM

MS technologies to be removed from MSDN Subscribers ...

An interesting thread on the MS newsgroup on a list of products that would be removed from the MSDN subscription list permanently. Very interesting set ... What was interesting on that list was IE 5.5 and Office 2000 products others seem to be obsolete
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 9:11 AM

Role Fragmentation from Scott ...

An very interesting thread from Scott ... Very correct indeed and just read along ... “ Somehow over the past 10 years, a cancer has been growing inside large organisations - called role fragmentation. As the roles have fragmented, an entire non-industry
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:58 AM

EQL - Emotional Query language ...

Catch this blog by Johan ... Really a funny one ... :) ... Want more ... Server: Msg 2812123, Level 12, State 123, Line 1 You forgot the magic word 'PLEASE'.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:42 AM

Office XML schema Documentation ...

XML has become the defacto for any technology emerging and office is no exception here. Catch the complete documentation for the XML Schemas for Word 2003, Excel 2033 and InfoPath 2003 . Released just recently ...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:39 AM

Yukon FAQ's

Catch the Yukon FAQ's ... Still in its initial stages this is surely a good start to read on some of the terms ...
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Monday, December 08, 2003 8:20 AM

What should I do if the Internet Goes Down?

I can't think of a day and time I can survive ... :) ... But the fact remains we are so much tied up to this digital world are are desparately in search of doing something or the orther on the net. Say general surfing, checking emails, checking our stock
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Saturday, December 06, 2003 11:01 AM

Advocates Day ...

I had promised for this looooong time back ... But on second thoughts saw that Nish (MVP) had posted his expereince. A very good one to read along ... Everytime I get to read this the memories of those fun filled MVP day comes back ... :) ... Hope you
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Saturday, December 06, 2003 10:32 AM

Code reviewer tool ...

This is an interesting tool that I came across today ... Was just surfing and boom this tool came out in some discussions. This tools allows you to audit a current code available and pass the code across to next stage and the best part is it can also
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Saturday, December 06, 2003 10:26 AM

Large Databases once again ...

I did mention this in one of my previous post about large SQL Server databases ... But the big surprise is yet to come ... Check out the biggest OLTP database is a 18 TB powered on DB/2 ... Check out the survey mentioned at winterCorp . You can get it
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Saturday, December 06, 2003 10:22 AM

ASP .NET Exposed ...

Hear it from the creators ... A chance to get in-deapth learning experience with the master themselfs (Scott and Rob) ... The complete roadshow ... More more info see here ... I just which I was there at one of the places ... :( ...
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Friday, December 05, 2003 8:03 AM

MS Bloggers List ...

Catch the past / present MS Bloggers list from here .
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Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:08 AM

IntelliSense in Longhorn Tools ...

The XML Editor in VS has been patched up to provide better IntelliSense for XAML ... Catch the Patch here ... As in the Overview : “The IntelliSense in the PDC bits while editing XAML had problems inside Style elements as well as when completing tags
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Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:03 AM

News in Office.

Using the Database Interface Wizard with Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 - Walk through how to build custom database solutions using the Database Interface Wizard, then integrate them with your Web site using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. XML Toolbox
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Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:55 AM

Guru's Guide by Ken ...

Ken has released the latest installment in his series of SQL Server Guru's Guides: “The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals“. This book covers some nitty gritty stuff that's not well published elsewhere - particularly in the area of
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Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:37 AM

Hotmail Upgrade goes live ...

The much anticipated Hotmail update is now live. What's new in the latest update? More and better spam filtering; new icons that make Hotmail look and feel more like Office 2003 and Exchange Server 2003's Outlook Web Access tool; and a new, more streamlined
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Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:30 AM

Large SQL Server Databases Survey ...

This new page on the MS site took me by surprise ... Check out the list of largest SQL Server database in production environement . Standing on the top of the listing is the Verizon's 5TB Monster database ... I really cant image the server setup they
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Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:52 AM

Avalon architecture

Inside information on the current architecture of avalon and performance optimizations by Chris Anderson ...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:27 AM

SQL Sourcesafe ...

Interesting tool set available ... Have you not been looking forward for such tools in your development efforts ... SQLSourceSafe 2.1 - This source code control tool for SQL Server now includes its own Query Analyzer tool for working directly with SQL
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Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:23 AM

Performance difference between T-SQL Vs CLR

Even though we shouldn't jump into conclusions using such features ... here is a sneak preview from Niels Berglund shows us an example on SqlJunkies WebLogs .
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Monday, December 01, 2003 1:24 PM

Nice break ...

A much awaited break atlast. Had a great last week ... Was on leave for the whole of last week. And you would have noticed a good amount of activity on my blog in the last week. I realized how such long weekends can bring rest to your mental state of
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Monday, December 01, 2003 9:36 AM

Simlicity Survival ...

John Porcaro writes in his blog on how we normally land up with less time in a day ... The blog has some great pointers to the same ... Excuses and laziness can get contributed to the remaining time though ... :) ...
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