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July SQL Server User Group Reminder
Just a reminder that everyone is invited to the SQL User Group meeting - 10 July 2012 as part of the...
Date: 07/09/2012
New Visual Studio Version for Business Users
Yesterday Microsoft announced that the beta of a new version of Visual Studio development suite,...
Date: 08/04/2010
PDC10 is here!
Yip you heard right the Microsoft PDC event will be running this year on October 28th and 29th in...
Date: 07/12/2010
SQL Cape User Group
The SQL Cape User Group Kick-Off event will be taking place this Thursday 15 July 2010 at the...
Date: 07/12/2010
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Released
I have over the past several years utilized the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit in...
Date: 07/12/2010
SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 CTP
Yesterday Microsoft released the SQL Server 2008 SP2 CTP which includes all cumulative updates up to...
Date: 07/08/2010
The 24 hours of PASS is now online
The 24 hours of PASS is now online, you will need to register and login but its there for you to...
Date: 06/21/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practice Analyzer Released
After a discussion last week at the ZA SQL Server User Group meeting around the scanning and...
Date: 06/20/2010
SA SQL Server User Group Meeting (June 2010)
This is just a quick, last minute reminder that the next SQL Server user group will be held tonight...
Date: 06/15/2010
Parallel Data Warehouse Clinic Released
I have received many requests for additional technical training material for Microsoft SQL Server...
Date: 06/09/2010
SQL Server Latest Updates – May 2010
As promised SQL Server latest updates (updated 5 June). SQL Server 2005 Express: SQL Server 2005...
Date: 06/05/2010
New SQL High Availability and Disaster Recovery Whitepaper
There is now a great new whitepaper by Paul Randal on Proven SQL Server Architectures for High...
Date: 06/05/2010
StreamInsight Samples Finally Online
The StreamInsight sample that I recently talked so much about in my Techdays and Bootcamp sessions...
Date: 05/27/2010
May SA SQL Server User Group meeting
The May meeting of the SA SQL Server User Group will be on the 18th of May 2010. Venue and time are...
Date: 05/15/2010
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack Update
The SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack is now available for download and includes the usual collection...
Date: 05/13/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 Et Al Public Download
Get the SQL Server 2008 R2 Trial This includes the 64bit and 32bit versions of SQL Server 2008 R2...
Date: 05/12/2010
Windows Embedded Standard 7 Download
So it’s official, an evaluation edition of Windows Embedded Standard 7 is now available for...
Date: 05/08/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 Boot Camp Review
The SQL Server 2008 R2 Boot Camp provided everyone with a great overview of the new capabilities of...
Date: 05/08/2010
Microsoft SQL Server JDBC 3.0 Released
I missed the fact that a couple of weeks back Microsoft released version 3.0 of the SQL Server JDBC...
Date: 05/04/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 Express now with 10GB DBs
For those of you that missed the fact, SQL Server 2008 R2 Express is now available for download from...
Date: 05/03/2010
TechDays 2010 Cape Town Next Week
Only a week away, don't forget TechDays 2010 is coming to Cape Town next week and its the...
Date: 05/03/2010
My Microsoft Certification Status Update
Every now and then I force myself to sit down and reevaluate my certification status across all...
Date: 05/03/2010
Windows Live Messenger Update Coming Soon
Last week Steve Ballmer previewed the new Windows Live Messenger in his “Five Dimensions of the...
Date: 05/03/2010
SQL Server Latest Updates – April 2010
As promised SQL Server latest updates (updated 3 May). SQL Server 2005 Express: SQL Server 2005...
Date: 05/03/2010
PowerPivot Now On MSDN
I am pleased to announce that the PowerPivot is now available for download from MSDN for MSDN...
Date: 05/03/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 Bootcamp
We will again be holding a SQL Server Boot Camp next week focusing on SQL Server 2008 R2’s newest...
Date: 05/01/2010
SQL 2008 Slipstream Install of Service Packs and Cumulative Updates
One of the questions that often comes up is “How to perform a installation of SQL 2008 without the...
Date: 04/23/2010
SQL Server Latest Updates – March 2010
I just had a question today from one of my customers around what the latest SQL Server Service Packs...
Date: 04/06/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Broker Changes
Having been involved with a large SQL Server Service Broker deployment and having to deal with the...
Date: 04/06/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 the last release to support Itanium
Some time back, in the context of the then recently released TCP results, I blogged about the rise...
Date: 04/06/2010
Generations in computing and their builders
The definition of the beginning of one generation and the end of another as it relates to computing...
Date: 04/02/2010
TechDays 2010
TechDays 2010 - The technology training conference for South African IT Professionals is coming to...
Date: 04/01/2010
Live @ TechEd Africa 2009 (Part 1)
I am now in Durban at the International Conference Center (ICC) where I will be presenting a couple...
Date: 08/02/2009
July SQL 2008 Cumulative Updates Released
Earlier this week (21 July 2009) the SQL Server Release Services team released Cumulative Update #3...
Date: 07/26/2009
SQL Server Disk Partition Alignment Whitepaper
I have over the past couple of years engaged with many customers around the benefits of correct...
Date: 06/20/2009
SQL Server Cumulative Updates
Earlier this week (18 May 2009) the SQL Server Release Services team released Cumulative Update #4...
Date: 06/20/2009
ZA SQL Server User Group June
Just a quick, last minute reminder that the next SQL Server user group will be held on Tuesday (23...
Date: 06/20/2009
SQL Server Virtual Guest Clustering Support
During TechEd 2009 last week it was announced that Microsoft will now support SQL Server 2008 guest...
Date: 05/19/2009
May ZA SQL Server User Group
This is just a quick, last minute reminder that the next SQL Server user group will be held tonight...
Date: 05/19/2009
ZA SQL Server User Group
This is just a quick reminder that the next SQL Server user group will be held tomorrow (17 March...
Date: 03/16/2009
SQL Server 2008 Auditing Whitepaper
Il-Sung Lee and Art Rask’s whitepaper exploring the details of Auditing in SQL Server 2008 is now...
Date: 03/02/2009
SQL in Botswana
Its going to be in Botswana for the next month or so. More specifically the city of Gaborone...
Date: 03/01/2009
Canvas for OneNote
It amazes me how many people have yet to discover the power of Microsoft Office OneNote as I use it...
Date: 02/28/2009
GeoLife at TechFest
Every year around this time Microsoft Research allows us a glimpse at the technological development...
Date: 02/28/2009
SQL & CLR Base64 Conversion Performance
As a follow-up to my previous post I thought I would have a look at the performance of this type of...
Date: 02/26/2009
SQL Base64 conversion
Someone asked the question “Using T-SQL only, is there a way to decode Base64 data” and Peter...
Date: 02/26/2009
TED Siftables are cool
One of the guys at the office pointed me to a video of one of the coolest TED presentations I have...
Date: 02/25/2009
New TPC-H Results
Last week Unisys posted their latest 10TB TPC-H results for their 16 socket Xeon X7460. There are a...
Date: 02/25/2009
GeoSynth
It often amazes me just how much goes on inside Microsoft and where other interesting stuff is being...
Date: 02/24/2009
GPS and Bluetooth - better together
There is growing evidence that integration is the name of the game when it comes to wireless...
Date: 02/24/2009