Monthly Archives: May 2007

Troubleshooting Memory Issues in SQL Server 2005

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft’s Bob Dorr, who is a senior escalation engineer in PSS, has a great post that has some troubleshooting steps for memory issues in SQL Server 2005. I have had some recent painful experience with issues similar to this, and … Continue reading →

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Feed Demon 2.5 Is Out

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Our hard-working Nick Bradbury has released Feed Demon 2.5, with lots of great new features. Technorati Tags: NewsGator, Feed Demon, RSS

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Windows Live Writer Beta2 Released

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft has finally released Beta2 of Windows Live Writer. You can get it here.

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More about Microsoft’s Surface Computer

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft’s Channel10 site has an 18 minute demo of Surface here. Endgadget has a gallery of screenshots here. Technorati Tag: microsoft surface computing

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Microsoft Announces Surface Computer

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Steve Ballmer is going to unveil Microsoft Surface on May 30 at the D: All Things Digital conference. The Microsoft Surface site has three pretty neat videos showing how Surface can be used to do things like sort photos, trade … Continue reading →

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Whitepaper about using Vardecimal Storage in SQL Server 2005 SP2

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft’s Sunil Agarwal and Hermann Daeubler have a nice whitepaper up on MSDN explaining how the new vardecimal storage format works in SQL Server 2005 SP2. The gist of the article is that you may gain some space savings and … Continue reading →

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Sweet Little Intel Conroe CPU

Posted on May 28, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Over the long holiday weekend, I decided to build a new Vista system from parts. I picked up an OEM ASUS P5N-E SLI motherboard from MicroCenter, along with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6320. The 6320 was only $166.00, and … Continue reading →

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SQL Server Best Practices Article

Posted on May 26, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft’s Alex DeNeui has a very informative white paper up called SQL Server 2005 Deployment Guidance for Web Hosting Environments. He talks about how to set up security, how to configure multiple instances of SQL Server on the same machine, … Continue reading →

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Rachel Specter (RGX Body Spray Girl)

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Rachel Specter is quite the stunner. Here is a link to one of the RGX Body Spray commercials. And here is another one. And yet another one.  Are you ready to step up?  

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No PDC This Year

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft quietly announced that they are "postponing" PDC 07 to a later date. PDC is the Professional Developer’s Conference. This is really disappointing, since I had passed up TechEd 07 in order to go to PDC 07.

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