Monthly Archives: January 2008

Microsoft’s Hero’s Happen Here Site

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft is having their 2008 Launch Wave Event on February 28 in Los Angeles. This is where they will "launch" Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. Of these, Visual Studio 2008 went RTM in November of … Continue reading →

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Details About Microsoft.com Running on Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft’s Jeff Toews (from the Microsoft.com Operations Engineering Team) talks about how Microsoft.com has been running on Windows Server 2008 since May of 2007. They are running about 100 quad-processor, 32GB Web servers, that are geographically distributed in multiple data … Continue reading →

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SQL Server 2008 RTM Slips to Q3 2008

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft’s SQL Server Director of Product Management, Francois Ajenstadt blogged today about how the RTM date for SQL Server 2008 will be in Q3 2008. The news has also been covered by Mary Jo Foley and Joe Wilcox. My take … Continue reading →

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Microsoft “The Big Event!” in Denver on January 31

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft is holding a free all day event at the Marriot DTC in Denver. They will be talking about Visual Studio 2008, LINQ, Agile Development, etc. This is meant to be similar to the old Developer Days. One of the … Continue reading →

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Review of SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft released an updated version of the SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) on January 18, 2008. I installed in on my workstation, and tried scanning a few of the servers that I manage. One thing I discovered is … Continue reading →

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Some Good Alternative History Books

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Glenn Berry

I was talking to a friend of mine tonight about some of my favorite alternative history books, so I thought I would list a few here: Rally Cry by William Forstchen – This is the first of an eight book … Continue reading →

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Five DMV Queries That Will Make You A Superhero!

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Glenn Berry

Being able to quickly analyze the workload and possible bottlenecks on a busy, mission-critical SQL Server is an extremely valuable skill, especially in a crisis. As I have blogged about before, both SQL Server 2005 and 2008 expose a wealth … Continue reading →

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New Version of SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer Available

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft’s Paul Mestemaker has announced that the January 2008 version of the SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer is available here. He also wrote that his team is working on incorporating the BPA functionality into the core product in SQL … Continue reading →

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The Value Of Being A Microsoft Partner

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Glenn Berry

I have worked for two different companies that were Gold Level Partners (Mortgage Cadence and NewsGator Technologies), and I think it was a worthwhile and valuable investment for both of them. Basically, you have to earn a certain number of … Continue reading →

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A Couple of Good Older Posts from SQLCAT On Schema Changes in SQL Server 2005

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Glenn Berry

Tom Davidson had a couple of very good posts on the SQLCAT Blog back in early 2006 on how to manage database schema changes without having an overly negative effect on concurrency and availability. The posts are here and here. … Continue reading →

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