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Paul Randal (Mr DBCC) is now blogging
Paul is the Lead PM for the SQL Server Storage Engine and is formerly the dev lead for Access...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/13/2006
New Forum, Disaster Recovery and Availability
If you have not been over in the MSDN forums for a while I highly recomend them, the traffic has...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/08/2006
FAQ: When does mainstream support end for SQL Server 2000?
Thanks to Peter Kalbach internally for this link. Now you will have to be on SP4 for this to be the...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/06/2006
Data Dude is out in the Wild!
Today we announced Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (guess we let the...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/31/2006
Sunil from the Storage Engine Team is now blogging
Update: Added the link back in as it got lost somehow Some good posts already , I like the one about...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/31/2006
SP1 releases continue
Something for the team to be very proud of, as of yesterday SP1 was available on Microsoft Update,...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/25/2006
Mythbusters, SQL Server History follow up
A while back I posted this entry about the history of SQL Server, one of the requests from folks who...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/23/2006
FAQ: Why was a public hotfix just released for SP1.
Ok so this is not a true faq yet but based on previous SPs I predict it will be soon... The KB...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/18/2006
and now for something completely different...
In early 1998 I was working as Dev Manager at a startup in Scotland building tools for Data...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/12/2006
More Benchmarks
There are a bunch of new SQL Server Benchmarks here. The most interesting one I think is the Unisys,...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/11/2006
FAQ: How many languages does SQL Server 2005 ship in?
This is an interesting one, I couldn't find this in the product docs, although I am sure it is there...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/09/2006
FAQ: How do I prevent users from seeing DBs in Enterprise Manager/SSMS that they don't have rights to?
I was at the Microsoft Hosting Summit last week, meeting with both Service Providers and our...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/04/2006
Top 10 Signs you are a DBA(or have been one for too long)
Many moons ago(well about 4 years) we were using a top 10 list as an ice breaker for SQL Server User...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/02/2006
FAQ: Will there be a single/inline image of SQL Server 2005 + SP1?
(First in another new category of posts, taking questions I get in mail, in blog comments and from...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 04/27/2006
April/SP1 BOL Update Available, online and download
The frequent updates mantra continues. April BOL is online and integrated into the online MSDN...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 04/25/2006
SQL Server 2005 SP1, Its here!!!!!!!!!!!
This is quite the service pack.... Database Mirroring is now supported in production, the extra...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 04/19/2006
More SQL Team Blogging
Looks like this blogging thing is really taking off for members of the Dev team. The programmablity...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 04/18/2006
Report Packs Update
One of the cool things about reporitng services is how easy it is to grab a bunch of reports and...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 04/13/2006
Paul Flessner on Microsoft's Data Vision
Paul (SVP for Data and Storage at Microsoft) Flessner is talking today in SF about our vision for...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 04/06/2006
Lots of new SQL Server Blogging
SQL Server Relational Engine Management Team SQL Server Database Engine Query Optimizer Team Bobs...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 04/04/2006
The March of the Benchmarks continues - Itanium Dual Core
WOW First benchmark with Dual Core Itanium, performance at a great price! The amusing fact with this...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 03/30/2006
More free money from Express Editions!
Well Amazon "money" at least. Instead of coming up with a cool app, this time all you have to do is...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 03/28/2006
New SQL Team Blogging - The ISV Team
Continuing the blog roll of teams/people blogging in SQL Server we have a new team here. I've worked...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 03/23/2006
Woop Woop...SQL Server Wins Best Database at the Jolt Awards
Yipee Oh and congrats to Brad who was nominated for Design Guidelines (still waiting for my copy to...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 03/21/2006
SQL Server 2005 SP1 CTP Available
Grant just sent the mail, 2040 is the SP1 CTP build. Now this post will not appear until tomorrow at...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 03/16/2006
Made in... SQL Server Express Edition Contest
Wanna win $10,000? Wanna have a blog that 1,000s of new readers will read? Enter the Made in Express...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 03/14/2006
SQL MythBusters – MSDE/SQL Express has a 5 concurrent user limit
Oh man, if I had a quid for every time this has been answered in the newsgroups or at conferences it...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 03/09/2006
Jim Gray on behind the code
Its always good to sit and listen to/watch Jim.
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 03/07/2006
SQL Server 2005 508 VPAT has been posted
If that title makes absolutely no sense to you then don't worry, you shouldn't follow this link.
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/28/2006
Farewell SQLWISH
As of last week mail to SQLWISH will generate the following reply. Thank you for your feedback....
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/23/2006
More about Sharepoint perf with SQL Server 2005
When I posted about this before, it was unofficial, however now we have some official data here, on...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/22/2006
Free Oracle to SQL Server Migration Lab
This is pretty cool and you can even win a Pocket PC! Not as cool as an OCC chopper of course but...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/21/2006
XML in SQL Server 2005 featuring Shankar
Is now on channel9.
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/16/2006
SSIS Sample Transforms
The SSIS team have been busy shipping a bunch of really useful and cool sample transforms; SQL...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/14/2006
MS IT Showcase
One of the great things about developing new software at Microsoft is working with the folks in MS...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/09/2006
New x64 Benchmarks
These almost slipped by, 3 new x64 TPC-H benchmarks; HP DL 585, cool thing about this box is its...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/07/2006
SQL Server Express Advanced Services Beta
Oh my, we obviously let the person that named SQL Server Management Studio Express Edition loose...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/03/2006
Cell and Row Level Security in SQL Server 2005
They really need to stop hiding this cool papers from me on Technet, there are only so many hours in...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/27/2006
All SKU/Language Combos for SQL Server 2005 now available
As I discussed back in Dec it takes us several months to release all of the language/SKU...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/24/2006
SQL MythBusters – "SQL Server is really a Sybase product not a Microsoft one."
There are lots of variations on this myth that I have heard/read over the years, most amusing of...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/19/2006
SQL Server JDBC Driver RTMs
You can download the new SQL Server 2000/2005 JDBC Driver here. If you have not been following this...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/19/2006
New category of blog entry: SQL Myth Busters
Over the Christmas break I was reading some good stuff on Slashdot(yes I know that seems like a...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/19/2006
Pablo's cool code from PDC ADO.NET Session
Pablo Castro's session on ADO.Net 2.0 at PDC was one of the highest rated we had, he has finally...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/16/2006
SQL Writer Service in SQL Server 2005
Totally missed this very informative article when it came out (might have been in a PDC panic).
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/10/2006
PSS Service Center Labs available
The PSS Service Center labs we used at this year's PASS conference in TX are now available on the...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/06/2006
Tracking down Dev Team (and friends) blogging
Welcome to the New Year and some changes to the blog. The first is that I decided to try and track...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/04/2006
SQL Server 2005, More languages and localised BOL available
We are now starting to get the international versions of the SQL Server 2005 Books Online back from...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/21/2005