May 2008 - Posts
I ran across a crazy behavior in the SQL Server 2008 CTP 6 tools around changing a table via the "Design" option in Object Browser. I typically script all changes to objects as I am not a fan of GUI development in general (and this may have
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We're back on the 2008 topics here at the W, talking about column sets. Column sets extend sparse columns allowing you another mechanism to query your desperate data. A column set is implemented as an XML column on your table. For this example
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You can find the slides and code samples from my talk last night at the Atlanta.MDF on my SkyDrive . Thanks to all that came out last night. We had some great questions and a lot of good conversation afterwards.
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I will be speaking at the Atlanta.mdf user group this coming Monday, on the topic of Dynamic Management Views in SQL Server 2005. If you are in the perimeter area stop by, the meeting starts at 6:30PM with food and drinks provided.
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The first meeting of the Gwinnett Georgia Microsoft User Group will be held tomorrow night at Gwinnett Technical College. I am always happy to see new user groups pop up, especially ones that are close to home. ;) Magenic will be sponsoring
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For those that know me I have a terribly short attention span for operating systems. I'm constantly playing with versions or configurations. I recently installed Windows Server 2008 (WS 2008 from here) on my Dell Latitude D620 with tremendous
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I had an interesting email thread on Friday with Eric Kang, a Program Manager in the SQL Server team, about the IntelliSense feature in SQL 2008. Eric has been gracious enough to let me post the contents of this thread here. The conversation related
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