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January 2007 - Posts

The "5 things..." blog chain letter
Peter DeBetta recently tagged me in what is called "blog tag". When I described it to Mary, she named it "blog chain letter" and said I should ignore it. But it got me thinking. Although I run my mouth often and have some fairly weird stories, here's Read More...
The Internals and Troubleshooting whitepaper is available
The companion whitepaper to my "Planning, Implementing, and Administering Scaleout Solutions with SQL Server 2005" whitepaper (see yesterday's post) is available. This whitepaper is called "Internals, Troubleshooting, and Best Practices for use of Scaleout Read More...
The first of my scaleout whitepapers is available
I've been working on some whitepapers on scaleout technologies in SQL Server 2005. The first whitepaper is now available; I don't have the main link, but here is the direct link to the doc file on the Microsoft download site. The whitepaper is about the Read More...
XQuery 1.0 et al are now W3C recommendations
Michael Rys (and who would know better/sooner about this) just announced on his blog that XQuery 1.0 and associated specs (including XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0) are now official W3C recommendations. Congratulations to the working group on this. The specification Read More...
A Draft of my SSIS Connectivity Whitepaper is available
The SQL Server 2005 Integration Services team has posted a draft of my SSIS Connectivity Whitepaper on their connectivity wiki at http://ssis.wik.is (note the change in the address of the wiki site). It addresses the details of using OLE DB, ADO.NET, Read More...