January 2005 - Posts

VB 2005 B1 to B2 changes

Published Thu, Jan 13 2005 9:37 | 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 Sat, Jan 8 2005 11:08 | 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 Sat, Jan 8 2005 10:50 | 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 Fri, Jan 7 2005 11:05 | 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 Fri, Jan 7 2005 10:02 | GregLow

mmmm I gather this might not be a good thing :-)

DNR: The Movie

Published Wed, Jan 5 2005 10:14 | 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 Mon, Jan 3 2005 9:53 | 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 Sat, Jan 1 2005 20:20 | 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...