Vinod Kumar's Blog

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:04 AM

No more an MVP :) !!!

I know the subject is surely good enough to catch attention. But it is infact true too. The reason for a long pause or silence on the blog is also attributed to these things that went behind the scenes. Well, long story short - I joined Microsoft as a

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Filed under: Non-Technical

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:25 AM

Malaysia Trip

Catch some snaps of the recent Malaysia Trip here .

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Filed under: Non-Technical, Events

Monday, September 04, 2006 5:09 AM

Another Security Goldmine

All security related posts from Laurentiu Cristofor on Blogs.MSDN. Worth a bookmark for sure.

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Filed under: SQL Server, Non-Technical

Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:36 AM

Interesting - U3

Software and hardware standards for building portable applications on USB drives. With a U3 smart drive, you can plug into any Windows 2000 or XP PC and work , play a game, message friends, send email, edit photos and more, all without worrying if applications

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Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical

Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:39 AM

Office 12 Roadmap

Wanna hear on which direction Office is moving, catch this post from the Excel Team's blog .

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Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical, Office

Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:53 AM

Joe Celko's Blog

I still am wondering how I missed on this. Even though some of the answers are different ... I have always loved the clarity and the reasoning that comes after them ... So go ahead and make your bookmark :). Lastly there will always be something to learn

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:30 AM

VMware Server - Free too :)

So after MS announcement of Virtual Server free it is turn from VMware. Get the details here .

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:21 PM

TechEd India 2006: Notes from field

Whew !!! All 6 down :) ... TechEd 2006 in India comes to an end and have to say it was one blast of an event. So here are the detailed blog blast to summarize all the sessions I did. And for people who did come I presume you loved as much as I loved talking

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 6:27 AM

VS on top of the IDE chain

Here is an alalysis based on a worldwide survey that VS is the most installed and preferred IDE for the developer community. I would have made that as a natural guess considering the number of times I had to opent he MS VS IDE in the past 6 years. Read

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Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical, .NET

Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:07 AM

3 down 3 more to go !!!

Yup, just completed 3 cities for TechEd India. Now waiting for the biggies of Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Now this is where the real fun would start I think. But looking forward to the same. It has been exciting till date and filled with fun. Do

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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 7:34 AM

TechEd India Update

1 down 5 more to go !!! Yup, TechEd has started in India and I just finished all the sessions at Delhi. A good crowd this time around and I hope people did enjoy the sessions. I did 3 sessions this time: 64-bit SQL Server: Best Practices SQL Server Monitoring

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Monday, May 29, 2006 2:20 PM

TechEd 2006 India: My sessions

Same time next week I must be on my way to attend/present at the biggest techno event TechEd from Microsoft in India. So I plan to talk on couple of topics and the same can be got from: TechEd Site . So I am talking on: SQL Server Monitoring Tools: The

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:40 PM