September 2005 - Posts

Thu, Sep 22 2005 17:36

Back from Basta!/SQLCon05

It was great. The sleepy town of Mainz in Germany, then 600 .NET and SQL Server geeks arrive.

My 2 sessions went well, and had great fun presenting them. I did not get much time to see the others, pity.

I did see Ingo Rammer's “Migrating .NET to Indigo”. Awesome.

Then there was Meinrad Weiss' “SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence”. He had the audience in awe by showing the new features in SQL Server 2005 and a great product called DeltaMiner. Jaws dropped when this BI tool from Bissantz & Company was shown. I have never seen such a simple UI and the graphic rednering technology to look at data was just best of the best. 

All in all, a good conference.

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Thu, Sep 15 2005 21:47

SQL Server 2005 - Database Mirroring off the cards for RTM.

So, Database Mirroring will not be "on" in SQL Server 2005 when it releases.

From what I have read, it looks like it is not performing up to expectations. You can still enable it, but it's probably going to be one of those "we told you so" scenarios.

I do not doubt that it is robust and won't trash your data, but I do think it is a bit too slow for production use.

I just thought it was the June CTP that made it slow. I have not been able to crash it yet.

Paragraph 5.1.2 from the September CTP shows how to enable it

http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/7/e/97e4c6e8-18e6-4c61-b1df-bdf4a66b146b/ReadmeSQL2005.htm

The updated letter from Paul Flessner's really raises the point

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2005/productinfo/letter.mspx

Pity, my presentation for this Wednesday at SQLCon 05 in Germany has just been blown out the water.

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