October 2006 - Posts

Datadude CTP6 Now Available

Published Wed, Oct 18 2006 13:56 | GregLow

Just had the good news from Gert Drapers that CTP6 of DataDude (aka Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals) has hit the download site. You can get it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4410d601-6e0c-406a...

Datadude Chat!

Published Tue, Oct 17 2006 0:58 | GregLow

I've been presenting a number of sessions around the country on Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (aka DataDude). The interest in the product seems to be growing well. If you'd like to chat to one of the people directly involved...

Script SQL Server Database - Schema *and* Data

Published Tue, Oct 17 2006 0:55 | GregLow

Good to see a CTP of a new publishing wizard for SQL Server appearing on the download site this morning. It can be used to generate the T-SQL scripts necessary to recreate a database with both schema and data. This could be very useful when you need to...

Vista Photos

Published Thu, Oct 12 2006 1:08 | GregLow

In the RD program, we get some odd requests. The other day, Kevin Schuler (our RD lead) was after photos of us with Vista and Office at landmarks around the world. So, I was in Sydney and with help from Corneliu Tusnea and his photographer mate, we got...

SQL Down Under Code Camp #1 done and #2 on the way !

Published Thu, Oct 12 2006 0:40 | GregLow

Thanks to all that participated in our weekend of all things SQL Server. In particular I need to thank the other speakers (in order of appearance :-) : Adam Cogan , Grant Paisley, Geoff Orr , Peter Myers, Darren Gosbell , Greg Linwood , Rob Farley , Itzik...

Way to go QUT!

Published Fri, Oct 6 2006 3:54 | GregLow

I did my PhD at QUT in Brisbane and I've always told people that I think the research group there that's led by Prof John Gough does some of the most outstanding work around. It was really pleasing to see this post today from Somasgear: http:...