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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:53 AM

SQL Server Express Edition

SQL Server Express Edition, a lightweight version of SQL Server 2005 (MSDE's next version to be short :)) designed for building simple dynamic applications. It includes all the rich functionality included in the SQL Server 2005 database engine such as
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Friday, June 25, 2004 7:50 PM

Compare SQL Databases

Here is yet another tool that compares and scripts out changes. Interested in trying out the free trial. Goto RevaSQL ..
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Friday, June 25, 2004 8:55 AM

English type definition in Outlook

I am not sure how many are aware of this.Open Outlook 2003 -> get to your Appointments/Meetings form -> Select the from date field and Type: On Independence day and tab out Type: Day after tomorrow and tab out Type: Next friday and tab out Type:
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Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:03 PM

Infinite Gmail invites :)

Roy's walks through some easy but yet obvious way to achieve this. Catch his blog . Source: Nish
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Thursday, June 24, 2004 10:13 AM

Hotmail next

This is getting to be fun ... This is what competition can do !!! :). Its 250MB by Hotmail. Pix from my account.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:48 AM

SQL Server Reporting Services SP1 Released

Was waiting to hear from MS on this. Download the same from MSDN Downloads . Key enhancements from the Site: Excel rendering extension has been improved and now supports viewing in Excel 97 and 2000. Have been waiting to hear this news from MS. Good work
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Monday, June 21, 2004 10:46 AM

Special characters on Office 2003

I was planning to take a session on some tips on Office 2003 at my workplace. Here is something cool I found. © - (c) ® - (r) ™ - (tm) Or you can use © - Ctrl+Alt+C ® - Ctrl+Alt+R ™ - Ctrl+Alt+T Interesting to see such
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Friday, June 18, 2004 10:30 AM

Its Rediff's chance next !!!

Its Rediff's chance to make it 1Gb from Yahoo's 100 MB claim. Just waiting to see whoz next in line :) ... For a summary check ... Some fun toons on gmail are on the net. Check this out . And my fellow MVP's comment on the gmail fashion ... I do personally
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Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:48 AM

Yahoo makes it 100 !!!

Yes. Yahoo has made the mailbox size limit to 100 MB from the 6/4 MB mark. With the free gmail 1GB mailbox size from google, this is the first move we see from this provider. Will have to see what others like hotmail, lycos etc do now !!!
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Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:46 AM

Security hole in Linux Kernal !!!

A Linux bug was recently uncovered by a young Norwegian programmer that, when exploited by a simple C program, could crash most Linux 2.4 or 2.6 distributions running on an x86 architecture. "Using this exploit to crash Linux systems requires the (ab)user
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Wednesday, June 16, 2004 4:35 PM

World's first mobile phone virus found !!!

Catch the news on http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2004/jun/16mobile.htm .
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004 3:56 PM

SQL Server Reporting Services

Microsoft seems to have given particular attention to extensibility in Reporting Services. Unlike some competing products, this is a very open architecture. Here are some of the key points where you can customize Reporting Services: You can manage a report
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Friday, June 11, 2004 10:33 AM

Virtual Keyboards

I have seen wireless keyboards. But virtual keyboards ... Hmmm sounds and surely looks interesting. No need to vaccum your keyboards hereafter :) ... See the product .
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Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:06 PM

New article on ExtremeExperts

Catch my new article on “ SQL Server 2005 - Managed Execution ”. A look into the CLR implementation for the next version of SQL Server. Just an analysis of this feature usage. Would love to get feedbacks for the same !!! Read now
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:55 AM

MS Expressions ...

Creature House Expression™ 3 is an innovative vector-based illustration and graphics tool that provides exciting creative capabilities for designers working in print, web, video, and interactive mediums. Microsoft acquired the Creature House technology
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:46 AM

Microsoft Double-click Patent Sows FUD

The sources read as “After a spate of licensing demands from companies claiming they owned the intellectual property rights to everything from streaming media to JPEG to downloading , some gun-shy technology folk were all too ready to believe that
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Friday, June 04, 2004 9:07 AM

Windows XP SP2 Features

Rebecca Norlander takes a Demo of XPSP2 for Channel 9. I 've been facinated with the amount of features that this SP is loaded with. Catch the video .
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Friday, June 04, 2004 9:05 AM

Microsoft invests $1 m in tech support

Launches 'FirstSupport' in Indian cities, wherein it will deliver five incidents of free technical support on its desktop offerings. Catch the complete story .
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Thursday, June 03, 2004 2:30 PM

Oracle Croons a New Tune About an Old Rival

In business, competitors are routinely cast as enemies to be fought and ridiculed. And over the years Oracle, led by its shoot-from-the-lip chief executive, Lawrence J. Ellison, has directed vast quantities of combative energy and invective at Microsoft
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Thursday, June 03, 2004 11:00 AM

30 Years of Computing and looking beyond ...

Very interesting read. Nielsen looks how computing has changed from in the past 30 years and looks how the computing will be 30 years from now ard 2034 ... Extract : “According to Nielsen's Law of Internet bandwidth, connectivity to the home grows
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Wednesday, June 02, 2004 4:58 PM

KB and Windows XP SP2

Here are some of the KB articles you can look for issues when it comes to Windows XP SP2 and SQL Server 2000. There might me more coming your way. But we need to understand that Windows XP SP2 is a big leap and for the first time I've seen " Features
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Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:57 AM

Indian MVP's Blog Aggregation

Catch the complete list ...Thanks for the compilation Anand M (MVP .NET).
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:59 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer

Another interesting article from MSDN on VS 2005 ... Read along ... Check the interface ...
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:56 PM

Server Performance Advisor V1.0

Service Performance Advisor is a server performance diagnostic tool developed to diagnose root causes of performance problems in a Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 operating system, particularly performance problems for Internet Information
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:37 PM

All Abt MS VSS

Get an overview of Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft's version control technology, and find out what's in store for the next release. From MSDN.
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:36 PM

VS 2005 Team Services

Visual Studio Team System is part of the Microsoft Solution System, which integrates process guidance, prescriptive architectures, and life cycle tools for successfully deploying solutions on the Windows Server System. Introduced recently here are the
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