New SQL Server Weekly Show Tomorrow
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We have always done it that way!
How many times have you looked at an issue and thought what were they thinking? Maybe you even asked the question out loud.
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Webcast: SQL Server 2005 Management Tools Overview
We’ll look into various management tools and capabilities for SQL Server 2005. Learn about everything from tracing to tuning and finding out how to better optimize and understand your systems. We’ll show what tools you have available and how they can be applied to managing your server.
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> Webcast Date: 9/5/2007 12:00pm Noon Pacific
Fantasy Football Invites Are Out
Be sure to check your email inboxes… this is the last notice about this for quite some time, so be sure to keep an eye out – you should have them now and you do need to sign in to claim your team in the league you were placed into.
Good News… SQL Server 2008 NOT Slipping!
Recent news about Windows Server "completion" dates moving into Q1 2008 had several people writing asking if this would impact the previously mentioned Q1-ish date for SQL Server 2008. From what I can tell and have been able to find out, SQL Server 2008 is NOT slipping, not changing dates. Of course we’re a long way out from those dates, so things can change (and I’d frankly rather they did change if they needed to, rather than releasing a product before it was ready). But, at this time, it does look like things are moving along well.
I’ve followed the process that Microsoft is using in this development effort as much as the specific features, I have to admit. I think it’s fascinating and a great bit of development process methodology learning to watch it unfold. They’re essentially (very over-simplified) adding the pieces and parts to the SQL Server package as they get real. OK, my term here of course, but the gist of it is that a feature isn’t added when it’s only sorta-kinda-but-not-really ready. So, as features are built tested and make sense in the product, they’re added to the product tree. Not until. So, we shouldn’t have issues as we did with 2005 with a feature being there in Beta, then going away (mirroring comes to mind). It’ll be fun to watch the development cycles and see how this approach works out, but I have to say, it’s hard to find fault with it and it really seems like a solid approach, especially on a product with so many feature forks to be considered, built, tested and so-on.
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Top 10 SQL Server Questions Answered by SQL Stan
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Requirements for a Secure Database
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Development, Change management, Code and Project deployment: Processes and Automation in SQL Server Environments
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