July 2005 - Posts

SQL Reporting Services Book

Published Sat, Jul 30 2005 22:23 | GregLow

While travelling lately, I also finally finished reading Peter Blackburn & Bill Vaughn's wonderful book on SQL Reporting Services. I thoroughly enjoyed it although I did find their Harry Potter chapter 9 3/4 a bit over the top (and as you'll note...

ASP.NET v2 API's

Published Tue, Jul 26 2005 22:12 | GregLow

Just got back from an entertaining session by Charles Sterling at our MSDN user group. Chuck covered the membership and webpart management API's in ASP.NET v2. While I really like how easy the ASP.NET team have made it to set up these tools, I really...

Echo, echo, echo

Published Thu, Jul 21 2005 14:02 | GregLow

Hi Folks, Was just talking to Mitch who was doing some Skype testing and I mentioned Echo123 to him. Thought I should blog it as I was unaware of it until the other day too and I figure I might not have been alone on that. If you need to test Skype (or...

Yes I read Harry Potter too

Published Tue, Jul 19 2005 12:42 | GregLow

Similar to what Mitch Denny mentioned in his post, I bought a copy of the latest Harry Potter book on Saturday and finished reading it last night. It was a case of deja vu reading Mitch's post. I enjoyed the book. I think it's a tribute to J K Rowling...

SQL Down Under Podcast Show #3 now available

Published Mon, Jul 18 2005 3:01 | GregLow

Hi folks, SQL Down Under podcast #3 is now available at www.sqldownunder.com . My guest is SQL Server MVP and SQL XML guru Kent Tegels . In the show, Kent discusses why XML support is so important for SQL Server, the level of support available in SQL...

RSS Bandit and F@#$@#$!@#$!@#$ Hotel Internet Connections (particulary GetIn2Net)

Published Mon, Jul 11 2005 21:01 | GregLow

I detest the amount of money I have to pay for Internet connections when staying at hotels. Recently, it cost me $84 for one night at the Saville Park Suites in Perth for a dial-up connection via their 5500 service. Even though there was a cap on each...

And another book

Published Thu, Jul 7 2005 1:21 | GregLow

While on the flight to Perth, I read Joe Celko's new book on SQL Programming Style. It certainly was an interesting read and quite thought-provoking. Can't say I agree with all his conclusions though. For example, even though I've read his arguments why...

Hilary Cotter's Replication Book

Published Thu, Jul 7 2005 1:04 | GregLow

While travelling recently, I finally got to finish Hilary Cotter's book on SQL Server replication. What can I say? It's excellent work. If you are working with either Transactional or Snapshot replication with SQL Server 2000, this is the bible. Hilary...

New Ozzie MVP

Published Sat, Jul 2 2005 13:48 | GregLow

Congrats to Martin Granell (also from Readify) who has been awarded MVP status in Solutions Architecture http://wah.onterra.net/blog/archive/2005/07/02/1624.aspx Well done Martin!