January 2005 - Posts

VB 2005 B1 to B2 changes
Published 13 January 5 9:37 AM | GregLow
Steve Lasker has put a very detailed post on the VB team blog. It covers the key changes from Beta 1 to Beta 2, particularly in relation to data. It contains lots of really good news. The only real bummer I noted in it was that SQL CLR User Defined Types...
Scalar vs Non-Scalar UDTs In SQL Server 2005
Published 8 January 5 11:8 AM | GregLow
Was reading Bob Beauchemin's wonderful “ A First Look At SQL Server 2005 For Developers ” (written with Niels Berglund and Dan Sullivan) again this morning. I was particularly interested in his/their opinions on what are good candidates for...
Munich in May
Published 8 January 5 10:50 AM | GregLow
Got this email this morning: “Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that your session proposal, A SQL Server DBA ’ s Guide to CLR Integration , has been selected for presentation at the 2005 PASS European Conference, 11-13 May 2005...
Beta Software and VPCs (Continued)
Published 7 January 5 11:5 AM | GregLow
Today's victim <sigh> ----------------- snippet of original post follows --------------------- Help! ;) I seem to have butchered my laptop running XP SP2 trying to move from the October CTP to the December CTP and sure would like to find a way to...
Bummer
Published 7 January 5 10:2 AM | GregLow
mmmm I gather this might not be a good thing :-)
DNR: The Movie
Published 5 January 5 10:14 AM | GregLow
Just received the Dot Net Rocks movie from Carl Franklin & Rory Blyth (see www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks ). They're always pretty funny guys and I'd expect almost anything to happen when dealing with them. What did catch me by surprise was the customs...
VPC Performance
Published 3 January 5 9:53 AM | GregLow
Isaiah Williams (and others) commenting on my last post asked about the role of Ghost in this type of testing beta software. Ghost is a good fit in this environment but I only use it as a fail-safe recovery mechanism. I think using VPCs for testing is...
Beta Software & VPC
Published 1 January 5 8:20 PM | GregLow
It seems like every couple of days, I'm talking to someone on a newsgroup where their post was something like: “I installed SQL Server 2005 beta and .NET Framework 2 beta on my XP SP2 system and now other things are stuffed up. Plus I can't get...