Euan Garden's BLOG
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PDC Data and Systems, better late than never
Woop Woop, the sessions are live; https://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/content/sessions.aspx And now back...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/19/2005
Team Foundation Server Team Needs Feedback
Rob is looking for feedback on SSRS deployment best practices for their final bits...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/19/2005
Roadtrip hell but had to post this...
I’m on week 3 of my 3 week trip to Europe, lots of blog material but I am tired, grumpy, sat in a...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/19/2005
Free SQL Server 2005 Training(for the next 90 days)
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/sqlserver2005/
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/10/2005
The SQL Server 2005 Roadshow, round 2
I blogged from my visit to one of these earlier in the year, seems like these have gone very well...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/10/2005
Video Diary Completed
I had some challenges with the final clips for https://mssql.members.winisp.net but all the clips of...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/30/2005
Beta of the new SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver available
https://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2005/jdbc.mspx
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/26/2005
Take part in the SSB Challenges
Rushi has started a series of challenges around SSB. The first one is up… Oh and if you have ideas...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/17/2005
Web link roundup
We have been announcing so much stuff recently that I am losing track, here is a summary of some of...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/13/2005
SQL Server 64 bit Demos from WinHEC
I did not realise we had put the video of this live, very cool. The demos show 32bit vs 64 bit SSIS...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/10/2005
TechEd and Creativity
This year as always was another year at TechEd when I once more had my belief that Software/IT is as...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/10/2005
Next round of the video diary
Looks like I am runing about a day behind(all of a sudden I have a lot of sympathy for the Channel9...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/09/2005
How big is Tech Ed?
Well I am actually impressed this year that the conference seems to be a lot denser than in the...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/09/2005
Did you miss this in SteveB's keynote?
We have launched Microsoft Update Service and also Windows Server Update Services. Why is this...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/09/2005
Sneak Peak?
If you are at Tech Ed, ask Michiel Wories for a peak at his Mercury prototype…
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/09/2005
Geek Eye for the Tech Ed Guy
Brian Welcker the GPM for Reporting Services has evolved into a form of Geek Eye for the TechEd Guy...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/08/2005
The finalizer has a web site
The star of Paul's keynote (after Donald) was the .NetCF powered battlebot. It has its own web site
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/08/2005
TechEd Day 2 - Personal Note
I’m wimping out of the video stuff, I have a 10:15 session and its been a long week(all 3 days of it...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/07/2005
PDC Registration is LIVE!!! Get it while its hot
https://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc,
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/07/2005
TechEd Day 1
Soooooooo much to blog and so little time. As I type this the first round of Day 1 videos are being...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/07/2005
Day 0 at TechEd, SQL Server Video Diary
Well I made it, I won’t bore everyone with my nightmare trip but I got in on Saturday along with 30...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/05/2005
Mike Tuchen(GM of SQL Server Marketing) has been PodCasted!
https://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2005/06/04/425295.aspx
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/05/2005
Is PDC worth it?
Interesting post here. Its a very fair question to ask. I’ve been more closely involved in PDC...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/02/2005
TechEd Excitement!
Went through some walkthroughs with Dan Winn, Michael Raheem and Christian Kleinerman today for our...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/01/2005
XML Showplan and SQLCLR
We are producing sooo much material on SQL Server 2005 these days its hard to keep up. I was trying...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/01/2005
Some v.cool posts from the SSIS Team
Using Infopath as a Source in SSIS Using http (as opposed to FTP) to GET files
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/26/2005
SQL Server TechCenter Launch
This internal mail just in from our Content Architect for SQL Server. Personally I think the browse...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/25/2005
TechEd Keynote Day 2
I’m posting while I can as we have been having some challenges with the blog server for the...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/19/2005
New SQL Server MSDN Forums are live
https://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=19 Along with Visual Studio we are adding...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/18/2005
SQL Server Roadshow - SF
A couple of weeks ago I popped down to San Fransisco for the day to visit one of the Get ready for...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/13/2005
Wanna play with SQL Server 2005?
But don’t know how to get bits or concerned about “dirtying” a machine? Look no...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/06/2005
A plethora of Service Packs
Does 2 count as a plethora? We released SQL Server 2000 SP4 this morning, Michael Rys has some good...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/06/2005
ISV Community Days with SQL Server 2005 and VS 2005 (Pt2)
Answers to some more of the questions: What parser is used when manipulating XML inside SQL Server...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/23/2005
ISV Community Days with SQL Server 2005 and VS 2005
I was lucky enough to get to sit in on one of these sessions in downtown Seattle a week ago, there...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/21/2005
SQL Server Nuggets are cool
The folks in Developer Evangelism in the UK have come up with some short, sharp, sweet and to the...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/04/2005
Testing out InfoPath and simpleblogger (updated)
Thanks to Kent I found this cool little InfoPath add in for writing .Text entries, I'm testing it...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/24/2005
Great post on VS 2005 design time data changes for B2
https://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2005/01/12/351495.aspx
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/13/2005
Peter got Slashdotted...
I thought Peter Torr had an interesting blog entry the other day about Firefox, in many ways what...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/22/2004
The Integration Services Team are blogging, plus a little history
Donald and Kirk are becoming prolific, Kamal promises to become so :-), Ash wants to Kirks post here...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/17/2004
Our stint on Channel9 is over for now
All 4 of the sessions for channel9 are over for the moment. What would you like to see for the next...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/10/2004
Express Manager(XM) and the December CTP are available.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8F92556A-6C3B-47D2-9929-ECDC5A4D25AE&di...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/03/2004
More SQL Server on Channel9!
The first of the videos from Channel9's tour of Bldg 35 is online, enjoy.
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/02/2004
Euro Road Trip Pt 6 - IT Forum, Travel and SQL Server
Trying to make the titles a little more interesting :-) Well I finally made it to Copenhagen but it...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/19/2004
Euro Road Trip Pt 5
It has been a fun weekend relaxing in Aberdeen, back to doing some "work" today. I went to speak at...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/15/2004
Euro Road Trip Pt 4
Another early start today, I was in TVP for 9 ready to speak at the UK Developers Group, which...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/12/2004
PSS Labs from PASS
For the last couple of years at PASS we have had some of our top Escalation Engineers from Product...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/11/2004
Euro Road Trip Pt 3
Today was a shorter day than yesterday(good job really as I am still recovering form Bronchitis and...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/11/2004