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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:27 AM

Will be at the SQLPASS

Yup ... I will be at the SQL Server PASS and will be skipping the MVP Summit considering most of the SQL MVP's are at the PASS and the product team is also at the PASS Summit this year. Will be glad to meet you people if you plan to bump into Dallas for
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:24 AM

Microsoft Realigns

Worth a notice considering I follow a lot on what happens on the MS platforms. Interesting press announcement with Jim trying to retire next year ... Read the complete story here .
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:22 AM

Visual Studio 2005 Uninstaller

I know there have been tons of posts over various blogs to remove the previous VS versions, do some registry hacks and deletes ... Even though I am not a big supporter of this I suppose this nifty utility can help folks do the same. Having said that I
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Sunday, September 18, 2005 10:29 PM

Same day two years back

hmmm ... Thought to have a space for myself today. So same day two years back, I started writing to this blog. It is amazing to see I have made more than 600+ posts on this blog and and still going strong. Its really a nice experience to have a blog.
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Sunday, September 18, 2005 10:18 PM

Project REAL—Business Intelligence in Practice

Project REAL is a cooperative effort between Microsoft and a number of technology partners in the business intelligence (BI) industry to build on actual customer scenarios to discover best practices for creating BI applications based on SQL Server 2005.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:57 AM

CLR and XML Best practices

Join this chat that will highlight the best practices to be used for SQL Server 2005 features specific to CLR and XML point of view. CLR and XML are some key features and can surely be seen as a USP for embracing SQL Server 2005. Here at this chat we
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Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:11 PM

XML Indexes in SQL Server 2005

Bob at his best trying to get some interesting analysis over XML Indexes. Read it here .
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Saturday, September 10, 2005 6:49 AM

SQL Server 2005 September CTP

The final CTP before the product launch I suppose. So the SQL Server September CTP can be downloaded from the Beta Site . I wanted to quickly get this info online as soon as I read the mail :).
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:18 AM

To upgrade or not to!!!

This is a good article topic by itself. But needless to say MS has the upgrade advisor that I suppose we need to use as from the enterprise. Read the blog thread on ScalabilityExperts over the very same topic . A good read nevertheless.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:07 AM

Sample Book Chapters for SQL Server 2005

Here are some of the SQL Server 2005 books and sample chapters . I do plan to write one but need to see how many would be interested in one over aspects of programmability in SQL Server 2005. Do pass you comments and I promise I will not let you down
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Sunday, September 04, 2005 8:46 AM

Using Webservices and Xml Serialization in CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005

Catch this blog entry from the CLR Team . Even though I DONT support this big time I would recommend people to see how things are done. I share the same concerns of Srinivas Sampath over misuse of certain features. And I see CLR integration is one such
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Sunday, September 04, 2005 8:40 AM

Are UDFs Harmful to SQL Server Performance?

This is a very good topic by itself. This had been in my mind for sometime and I saw this article over SQL Server Performance and then thought why reinvent :) ... Anyways I have couple more points which will get into my site sometime.
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Sunday, September 04, 2005 8:21 AM

Download the Microsoft WinFX SDK Beta 1

The Microsoft® WinFX™ SDK contains documentation, samples and tools designed to help you develop managed applications and libraries using WinFX, which is the set of next-generation managed APIs provided by Microsoft. This release includes documentation
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Sunday, September 04, 2005 8:18 AM

SSIS: Fuzzy Lookups and Groupings

Catch this interesting article on SSIS on MSDN Magazine .
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:42 AM

Breaking silence with a Breaking news

This amazing statistics from from Abhisek Kant (CPM - Microsoft). “Extremeexperts is one amongst the top 10 referrers to the MS India ( www.microsoft.com/india/* ) sites. Not only that it is the only 3 rd party (non-MS site) to be in top referrers
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