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Maybe you've noticed on my blog in the news section a link named Chat With Me! The idea came initially from Tudor Galos and then I found a tutorial for how to setup this to work for your site here: Windows Live Messenger IM Control & Presence API...
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The HOL went just fine. I've been able to go through all subjects except the new DATE/TIME data types (I don't know exactly how we missed them). Some pictures from the HOL: This is a picture taken at the end of the HOL: And some resources for the questions...
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What do you think will happen after running the next code: EXEC sp_configure 'clr_enabled',0 RECONFIGURE GO Answer: Disabling SQLCLR . Really? Not quite . If you read Books Online it says: "Use the clr enabled option to specify whether user assemblies...
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If you don't have TechNet or MSDN subscribtions you can download evaluation versions from the following links: 32 bit edition ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6372C24F-67DD-42DD-B034-748907B23420&displaylang=en ) 64 bit edition...
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Don't have hardware? Wanna play with SQL Server 2008 ? Then here's the answer: TechNet Virtual Lab: Administering Servers by Using Declarative Management Framework (DMF) Policies TechNet Virtual Lab: Implementing Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server...
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Do you like Powershell? If the answer is yes, you'll be happy to know that SQL Server 2008 will benefit from Powershell by introducing a provider for the relational engine and policy management.You will be able to use Powershell for executing T-SQL scripts...
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From Microsoft Elearning: Clinic 6188: What's New in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for Enterprise Data Platform - In this 1 hour on-line clinic, IT Professionals will learn about the new features in SQL Server 2008 that will help them to secure the enterprise...
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SQL Server 2008 introduces a new hint, the FORCESEEK hint that allows to "kindly" suggest Query Optimizer to use a seek operation instead of a scan. You can use this either as a table hint or in a query plan as a query hint. So far so good, it was late...
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Known as Mr Service Broker, Remus Rusanu or rremus as we know it on our forum has moved his blog at this address: http://rusanu.com/blog/ . Who is Remus? If you attended our meeting last year you probably know him (on the left in this picture): If not,...
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Just a click can get you an XBOX 360....
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Messengers and status messages - another kind of advertising. Another way of loosing time Looking at someone else's status message I found out about a new search engine, in fact not a new search engine as an interface for Live Search , Ms. Dewey More...
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You have install a SQL Server 2008 CTP and then another application or you've installed SQL Server 2008 without reading the readme file. You try to use SQL Server Management Studio to connect to your server and you get this error: A connection was successfully...
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I do not have a fixation on ring buffers but I keep finding them in my path. For example, recently I was writting about the new DMVs introduced by SQL Server 2008. One of the sys.dm_os_memory_brokers DMV returns information about memory brokers. [quote]...
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I liked this tool so much that I considered it's worth to do a screencast about it. So here it is: Windows Media Video archive: Download Format: wmv Duration: 00:03:53...
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If you work with LINQ to SQL then you might want to take a look at this posts of Dinesh Kulkarni: LINQ to SQL: What is NOT in RTM (V1) LINQ to SQL: features not in the designer / SqlMetal LINQ to SQL breaking changes from beta2 to RTM (compiled from my...
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It's not a secret that Microsoft aquired Dundas Technology and Reporting Services will benefit from that. More specific, there's a chance that SQL Server 2008 will include these controls: Dundas Chart for Reporting Services (included in CTP4) Dundas Gauge...
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i’m MAKING A DIFFERENCE [quote] i’m is a new initiative from Windows Live Messenger™. Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program's advertising revenue with some of the world's most effective organizations...
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After 2 weeks of working just fine, today my Virtual PC 2007 console started to play games with me, it appeared minimized in my taskbar or in the system tray, but no interface, no maximize option in the context menu (when the console was minimized). I...
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I was doing a screencast with the new options to track deprecated features in SQL Server 2008. I launched a Profiler and I was about to run SELECT DATABASEPROPERTY('master','IsAutoShrink'); Before I had the time to press Run, an event from Profiler itself...
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Do not expect this functionality from SQL Server 2008. Though it is mentioned here: SQL Server 2008 Overview: On-demand webcast and here: Online Transaction Processing in SQL Server 2008 , the feature that was supposed to persist connection string information...
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Personally I prefer NTFS but if you need FAT32 then you should take this survey: Take our survey about running SQL Server on a FAT32 environment! It would take you just one minute as the survey consists in 5 simple questions....
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Recently I went out with Remus to eat some healthy food (pizza) and of course to drink some fruit juice (read beer). The subject of the evening was Service Broker. I won’t reproduce the whole discussion but I found interesting the following point: Many...
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Over the years from IT events or from various other sources I gather a lot of caps. Yesterday at a user group meeting I received a new one. The following 4 caps marks various stages of my involvement in IT: First one (from left to right) demonstrates...
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