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Partition Level Locking SQL CAT Post

The W Blog — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:22:54 GMT

A little late with this one but the SQL CAT team has a great blog post about partition lock escalation in SQL Server 2008. The post describes the introduction of table level lock escalation control made available via TSQL syntax. In prior Read More......(read more)

SQLSaturday #41 Is Coming

The W Blog — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:56:08 GMT

The next SQLSaturday event for Atlanta will be held April 24th at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. SQLSaturday is one of the best content driven events going in the SQL community. At the moment, there are 30 submitted sessions (2 are mine) Read More......(read more)

Extending Interfaces with Implementation

Sergey Barskiy's Blog — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:39:52 GMT

Today I was faced with an issue. I had an interface based implementation of a specific functionality. All classes that implemented this interface had different implementation of course. What I had to add is ability to run certain checks Read More......(read more)

TechFuse 2010 – May 6 Bloomington, MN

Dan English's BI Blog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:17:44 GMT

Are you ready for a full day of learning? Well you are in luck, coming up in a couple of months is the TechFuse 2010 event in Bloomington, MN. Plus this year my application to speak at the event was accepted, so even better. I have the only Business Intelligence Read More......(read more)

Top 10 BizTalk Hotfixes

MS Innovations Blog — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:09:08 GMT

I was at the MVP Summit just a few weeks ago and wanted to help publicize a few important fixes coming out of Redmond that can help your BizTalk development. Some hotfixes get combined into a rollup and others do not. Also, for some reason not all of Read More......(read more)

PASSMN March 16, 2010 Monthly Meeting

Dan English's BI Blog — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:33:48 GMT

The next Minnesota SQL Server User Group meeting is coming up in a couple of weeks on Tuesday, March 16 from 3 to 5:30 at the local Microsoft office in Bloomington. This month we will be looking at common table expressions (CTEs) and database design and Read More......(read more)

North Central District Microsoft BI User Group Q1 2010 Follow-up

Dan English's BI Blog — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:30:03 GMT

This past week was the first Microsoft BI User Group meeting in Minneapolis for the 2010 year, North Central District Microsoft BI User Group 2010 Q1 Meeting – March 3 . It is going to be a really exciting year with all of the products that Microsoft Read More......(read more)

RTM, Launch, and GA dates announced for SharePoint 2010!

Blogging about SharePoint: Posts — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:35:41 GMT

Body: SharePoint 2010 will RTM next month – April 2010! The launch event will be May 12 th . http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx#fbid=387xf5ImGXJ It will be generally available to everyone in June. Read More......(read more)

Don't Miss Tonight's Chicago Silverlight Users Group!

UX Confidential — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:09:41 GMT

Just a reminder to join us for the inaugural meeting of the Chicago Silverlight Users Group tonight at 6pm. Dave Bost, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, will be discussing what's new in Silverlight 4! The meeting will be at held tonight,... Read More......(read more)

Assembly Native Image Load Failures

Jeff Ferguson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:12:47 GMT

You may find during application performance analysis that you can improve your application’s cold start time by using native images for both your application and its dependent assemblies. Native images will alleviate the need for your code to run through Read More......(read more)

Twitter RSS Feed available

Dan English's BI Blog — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:16:20 GMT

Just wanted to let everyone know that you can subscribe to my Twitter updates by accessing the RSS feed. I have included a link on the top right on my blog main page that you can use to subscribe to. Nice feature, so now you don’t have to miss out on Read More......(read more)

PASSMN February 2010 Meeting Follow-up

Dan English's BI Blog — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:34:11 GMT

I wanted to thank everyone that attended the meeting either in-person or virtually. We had around 60 people all together, so it was another good turn out. I also wanted to thank both our presenters, they did a wonderful job and I enjoyed the audience Read More......(read more)

Community Events

Sergey Barskiy's Blog — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:54:37 GMT

I often forget about different conferences I would like to keep an eye on, so I decided to make a list of them on my blog. VS Live MIX DevLink CodeStock Atlanta Code Camp Alabama Code Camp South Florida Code Camp Orlando Code Camp Read More......(read more)

Magenic Studios Silverlight/WPF Contest starts 2/22

Dan English's BI Blog — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:06:48 GMT

Do you know or want to learn Silverlight or WPF? Well, now is your chance. Put something together on your own or with a group effort and submit it for the contest that Magenic has posted here - Magenic Studios Silverlight/WPF Contest . Contest is open Read More......(read more)

Why the silence?

Blogging about SharePoint: Posts — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:07:15 GMT

Body: I haven’t blogged in a while, though I have tweeted a lot. Here’s why: End of November, my wife and I were blessed with our second child. Now my web hosting company is migrating my site to a “new platform” (which I think means new hardware). It’s Read More......(read more)

Expanding Your Career: Mobile & API Development

this.Reflect() — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:20:00 GMT

There’s no denying the fact that I’m heavily involved with mobile development. Currently my platform of choice is Android platform (the Google nexus one pictured to the right). However, I’m not just a Android programmer. My day job as most know is a .NET Read More......(read more)

ESB Toolkit 2.0 Configuration Tips

MS Innovations Blog — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:49:59 GMT

I have been working more and more with the ESB Toolkit 2.0 but occasionally run into issues where samples do not work or there are other miscellaneous errors. Here are a couple of my tips for common errors I have encountered while using the toolkit. All Read More......(read more)

Alpha Geek PowerPivot Challenge 3 Entry

Dan English's BI Blog — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:34:47 GMT

I just placed an entry in an online Microsoft geek challenge utilizing PowerPivot. You can check it out in the link below and I have added a comment to the entry to provide some background as to what I did for the challenge and why. I tried to get my Read More......(read more)

Microsoft Gets It Right With Windows Phone Series 7

The W Blog — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:22:05 GMT

I watched the live feed of World Mobile Congress today a little worried for what I might hear out of Microsoft. While it was fully understood that today would be about the 7 OS I really was not sure how I would feel at the end. I have been Read More......(read more)

SQL Server vNext Announcement

The W Blog — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:28:00 GMT

By way of the Dan Jones blog, the next version of SQL Server will be codenamed "Denali" and is still on rough track to be officially titled SQL Server 2011. No details yet on features, just the codename at the moment. Still good to know what to add for Read More......(read more)

Silverlight 4 + COM + SQL Server = Cool!

Sergey Barskiy's Blog — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:53:27 GMT

Today is the day to talk about COM possibilities in Silverlight 4. One would question the titles of my post. COM and Cool in the same sentence? Let me proof this title to you. First, let me take a closer look at COM. In order to Read More......(read more)

PowerPivot Beta Alpha Geek Challenge 2 Entry

Dan English's BI Blog — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:44:22 GMT

I waited too long to get my entry in most likely for Challenge 2 of the Alpha Geek Challenge . It states that it goes through tonight, but not sure if my submission will get posted in the entry list for voting or not – View All Available Entries . Oh Read More......(read more)

Google Buzz: First Impressions

this.Reflect() — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:21:43 GMT

I’ve been using Google Buzz since it came out this last week or so. I’ve come to the following conclusions. It’s a One Stop Shop Buzz is a one stop shop for those who don’t heavily participate in any one medium. I’m finding Read More......(read more)

LINQ: ToLookup vs ToDictionary

this.Reflect() — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:28:00 GMT

Some people are not sure of the difference between ToLookup vs ToDictionary LINQ methods. To break it down real simple: One is a look up (ToLookup) One is a dictionary (ToDictionary) Duh. That’s what you’re probably thinking. The real difference is understanding Read More......(read more)

TDWI Minneapolis Chapter Event: Operational BI & Columnar DBMS 101 - March 9

Dan English's BI Blog — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:46:55 GMT

The next TDWI Minneapolis Chapter event is scheduled and the agenda has been posted. The focus of next month’s meeting is on innovations in business intelligence and the topics are Operational BI and Columnar Databases. http://tdwichapters.org/Minneapolis Read More......(read more)