SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 034The following question was asked at a Recent “Best of SQL Server 2005 Launch” TechNet Event in Kansas City (Overland Park Kansas, actually. Had a lovely time there, thank you! …and although it was a bit of a dive, the Karaoke at the Red Balloon was a lot of fun!)“DDL Triggers… … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 034
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 033The following question was asked at a Recent “Best of SQL Server 2005 Launch” TechNet Event in Kansas City (Overland Park Kansas, actually. Had a lovely time there, thank you! …and although it was a bit of a dive, the Karaoke at the Red Balloon was a lot of fun!)“I heard … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 033
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 032“I want to program against and/or use table and database configuration information. Is there a way to access the metadata associated with those? Could I add my own metadata or comments into that area?”This gentleman was looking for manipulating and using hidden information. He suggested that if it wasn’t available, it … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 032
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 031We got 31 flavors of tidbits for ya…“I’d like some more information on the requirements for online defragmentation and indexing.”Well, first of all… The new online index operations are only available in the Enterprise edition of SQL Server 2005. The SQL Server 2005 Books Online has a great section on the … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 031
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 03030 tidbits. The bit “3 oh”. Our list is not a young list anymore.This tidbit as a result of really good questions (aka questions I didn’t have a sufficient answer for or that I wanted to research more thoroughly) at our TechNet Events in Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee. (Which reminds me… … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 030
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 029Another tidbit? It’s been awhile! FAR too long. My apologies.This tidbit is about a new flexible security feature in SQL Server 2005: SQL Server Agent Proxies.In the past, if you wanted a job to have access to some secured subsystem, you had to basically give that job rights as the sa … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 029
These are GREAT!The SQL Server Chopper contest is over. And today (Nov 7, 2005) they’re going to announce the winners at the SQL Server 2005 Launch event in San Francisco. Paul Sr. and Mikey (for President!) are even going to be there at the Launch party that evening.And at the launch, as well as at … Continue reading American SQL Server 2005 Chopper Videos!
In preparation for our series of “Best of SQL Launch” events, I put together a page of resources that I hand out to my event attendees. I figure that it beats having to try and quickly write down URLs as they fly by in the slides… and it gives you something else to scribble on, … Continue reading Kevin’s Microsoft SQL Server 2005 “Best of SQL Launch” Resource Page
Yeah baby! That says it all. Today in San Francisco Steve Balmer will keynote the offical launch event for SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk 2006. And all over Microsoft, all over the world, we are “READY to ROCK the Launch”. Today (if it’s not live yet, it will be soon) we also … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 – READY TO ROCK THE LAUNCH!
Yeah… that’s me, working hard. For the past several weeks (several months, really) the team has been focused on learning and presenting SQL Server 2005 in all it’s glory… and doing a pretty good job of it (if I can brag a bit on my team here.)This coming week we start our new “Best of … Continue reading So much to blog. So little time. So much SQL Server 2005
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