Euan Garden's BLOG
Life, the Universe, MS, VS, Testing and SQL Server
BI Metadata Toolkit Samples available
We get asked questions about dependency analysis, especially in the BI space, a lot with SQL Server...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/19/2005
Looking for a SQL Server Partner?
Check out the new Partner Directory
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/13/2005
SQL Server 2005 MOM Management Pack
The pack itsself is here and the operations guide is here. Enjoy.
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/09/2005
Continuous Publishing for SQL Server 2005, BOL and Sample Updates
One of the things that we have worked hard on for SQL Server 2005 is providing an infrastrcuture for...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/07/2005
XML/A over TCP/IP
More info than you can hope for from Mosha here;
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/05/2005
March of the benchmarks continues
Just because we have shipped and launched (well in some of the world) SQL Server 2005 RTM does not...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/02/2005
Embedding SQL Server Express, Custom Installs, Click Once and other fun stuff
There is a new article by folks on the VS and SQL Teams about how to embed the installation of SQL...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/28/2005
Potential Fix for SSMS-E (SQL Server Management Studio - Express Edition) Problems
Steve Twitchell has posted a new download for SSMS-E that should fix the install problem related to...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/23/2005
Fools seldom differ, Day 26 of the blog frequency experiment
It seems that Ken Henderson and I have been trying the same experiment, without knowing about it....
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/21/2005
SQL Server + Perl?
Erland (one of the SQL Server MVPs) has been working ona SQL Server connectivity module for Perl...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/18/2005
Troubleshooting SQL2005 Perf WP, from the folks that really know...
New WP published a little while back that talks about troubleshooting SQL Server 2005 using some of...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/17/2005
Need a book on Analysis Services 2005?
Good list here, I did review one of these and was impressed, I hope the others are all as good as it...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/16/2005
GotDotNet is having a birthday!
The Gotdotnet team is throwing a Birthday Party and all Gotdotnet users are invited! The party will...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/15/2005
SSIS and Fuzzy Cleansing
Great article on cleansing using SSIS Fuzzy technologies here.
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/14/2005
Another great blog, MS.COM operations
Some really great info on logparser and 64 bit amongst other subjects in here. These guys run the...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/12/2005
SQL Server Learning Survey
SQL Server Learning Survey - International If you live outside of the United States or Canada, we...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/11/2005
Scalable Shared Databases, WOW!!!
New KB to discuss this here
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/11/2005
SSMS-E Does not start, a potential fix
Looks like Steve Twitchell has worked out why SSMS-E has not been starting on some folks machines,...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/10/2005
More Downloads for SQL Server 2005, get em while they are hot!!!
The first SQL Server 2005 Feature Pack
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/09/2005
SQL Server Management Studio Express Edition
Is quite a mouthful but its also available to download in CTP form!
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/08/2005
LAUNCH DAY!!! Why are we doing such tight integration between VS and SQL Server anyway?
I’ve just come out of SteveB’s jam packed keynote I thought I would take the chance to write down...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/07/2005
TroubleShooting Connections
The SQL Server Protocols Team has a blog and a great 2 part post on troubleshooting connections....
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/05/2005
TechNet Magazine, SQL Server Q&A, cool info
TechNet Magazine has a bunch of great Q&A, some of the questions and answers are culled from...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/04/2005
Easy to miss awesome blogs
I use BlogJet to do most of my posting if ind the offline and editing stuff pretty easy and its a...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/03/2005
November SQL Server Web Casts on MSDN
List is here, interestingly enough I couldn’t find a similar page on MSDN, must have a chat with...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/02/2005
Are you ready to get REAL with SQLServer 2005?
The team working on Project REAL have done some amazing work and have been documenting/talking about...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/01/2005
New (beta) build of the SQL Server Migration Assistant (for Oracle) available
Did I mention SSMA is free?
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 10/31/2005
Kamal joins the ranks of SQL Server MSDN bloggers
Kamal Hathi has joined the msdn blogging team for sql server, he is going to double post his...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 10/30/2005
Ken Henderson, stirring the pot? never...
Ken has a couple of cracking posts to stir discussion and frustration :-)...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 10/29/2005
More SQL Server 2005 Benchmarks
Almost missed this; https://blogs.msdn.com/anu_chawlas_blog/archive/2005/10/24/484230.aspx
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 10/28/2005
SQL Server 2005 shipped!
SQL Server 2005 RTM’d today, it will be available on MSDN in a couple of hours and through other...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 10/27/2005
New Certifications for SQL Server 2005 (and other MS Products)
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2005 Microsoft Certified IT Professional:...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 10/26/2005
Speaking at Borcon, I mean Devcon, what would you like to see?
Microsoft is sponsoring Borlands annual conference again and I have been asked to do a session of...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 10/25/2005
Sharepoint Portal Server + SQL Server 2005 = ?
https://forum.olympiacos.org/blogs/venceremos/archive/2005/10/22/dimitrisv.aspx wow...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 10/24/2005
Lots of PASS posts on SQL Junkies right now
Too many to list individually but check out; https://sqljunkies.com/Weblog/ before they start...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 09/29/2005
Correction from Don Keilys Blog
Don does not allow comments and I can’t send a mail but hopefully he will pick up on this link;...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 09/29/2005
WOW $0.99 a transaction!
1x CPU, 8GB of RAM, >30,000 users. Great benchmark from Dell using SQL Server 2005 x64 Std...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 09/27/2005
Beta 2 of the SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver is available
Here: https://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2005/jdbc.mspx
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 09/26/2005
PDC: Free copy of SQL Server Std, clarification
The original version of the registration web site for the free copy of SQL Server, said that the...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 09/17/2005
Sept CTP and a letter from Paul
In case you missed it we shipped our final CTP and VS shipped an RC, these are in synch and work...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 09/15/2005
PDC Clarification: Free Copy of SQL Server
EricR announced in his PDC keynote this morning some stuff on SQL Server, I want to clarify it. Sept...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 09/15/2005
The road to PDC: we shipped the dry run throughs
For the last 9 days we have been doing a series if dry run throughs of the sessions for PDC, these...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 08/30/2005
WinFS Beta 1 bits (almost) available
Tom Rizzo posted earlier today, there are also several articles out there in the wild in the press...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 08/29/2005
My personal pick of PDC Days -1 to 1
The full agenda (well as of right now) has been posted on...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 08/24/2005
Michael Rys is doing XML on Chanel9
Fellow MSDN blogger Michael Rys is on Channel9 right now
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 08/16/2005
Decoding the PDC Lingo on Data
One of the challenges I alluded to earlier in the PDC process was that we were struggling to provide...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 08/03/2005
Great Post on MARS
Chris Lee from the Data Works team has a great post on using MARS in SQL Server 2005, simple but...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 08/03/2005
SQL Server Video Diaries down for a couple of days
If you are trying to get to https://mssql.members.winisp.net then sorry but we are moving the...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/22/2005