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Microsoft’s Dan Reger has announced that Microsoft will not be supporting the Itanium architecture after Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, and Visual Studio 2010. Mainstream support for Itanium on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 … Continue reading →

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Here is the script that I used in my Dr. DMV presentation this afternoon at PASS. It is a set of pretty heavily commented queries that are very useful for detecting and diagnosing many common performance issues with SQL Server … Continue reading →

According to Bink.nu, Microsoft’s Bob Muglia talked about the next release of SQL Server (aka "Katmai") being released in 2008 at the keynote today at the Microsoft Management Summit 2007 in San Diego. Technorati Tag: SQL Server

Well, I finally got tired of complaining about my 2002 vintage Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop that I use for teaching, and bought an inexpensive, but decent replacement from Office Depot this past weekend. It is a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4447. Office … Continue reading →

John sent me these photos of a T-34/76 Model 1943 that was recovered from the bottom of a lake in Estonia back in 2000. It is pretty amazing it was in such good condition after being underwater for 55 years. … Continue reading →

When we left off in Part 1, I was a young Private (E-1), serving as a platoon radio operator in 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1/1, in the 1st Marine Division, stationed at Camp Pendleton, CA.  My Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) … Continue reading →

Since I made the mistake of revealing that I had been a tank commander in the Marine Corps when I gave my two minute biography during my first week at NewsGator, people here often call me the Sarge. I just … Continue reading →

At the SQL PASS conference, outgoing SQL Server development chief Paul Flessner talked about upcoming improvements for the next version of SQL Server, code-named Katmai, which is due in 2008. Microsoft also released the November 2006 CTP build of SQL Server 2005 … Continue reading →

Earlier this week, Microsoft put the Office 2007 RTM bits on MSDN Subscribers, followed yesterday afternoon by the Vista RTM bits. I was able to get all of them downloaded overnight (including both 32 and 64-bit versions of Vista), so … Continue reading →