Hi everyone! I just completed my first day at Microsoft as an Account Developer Consultant. This is exciting. I'll be covering clients in Oklahoma, helping developers to do their jobs. I've spent the day getting to know, Brian, Bill, Ben, and Sean (I thought about changing Sean's name to Bean in order to keep the B theme going). I got a walk around the facilities today in Irving, TX thanks to Brian and Sean is to be my Mentor right now. He is a great guy and is helping me learn the ropes

Episode 2 of “ 10-4 ” (Dec 24th – Jason Olson ) Key feature shown – The customized start page. I like the carry over from office of pining down a document. In this case the pining of a project. I know this sounds small, but how many times have you been working on your core project, to interupt it with some proof of concept projects? I find that I then have to either expand the number of projects in my file menu or navigate to the project files again. This will allow me to

Can you believe we are already talking Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0? It seems like some of us just started learning 2008. In fact, according to a Developer Guidance Council meeting today, hosted by our regional DE in Dallas, Texas, many are still learning 2005. Go ahead and say it. I know you want to! “There are still people learning VS 6.0!” However, if you like moving forward, MS has created a Tech Preview of the next environment. This is not Beta. It is pre-Beta. I

I just learned that a friend from the past is moving up in Microsoft and providing his great skills to a larger group of Microsoft Developer/Platform Evangelists. Brian Moore, previously the Dallas Developer Evangelist, moved to St. Louis, MO a few years ago to work that region and was then promoted to manage others in the north. The current plan now is for him to manage the entire central region of Developer Evangelists. Brian is a very knowledgeable, efficient, personal, guy. I wish him the best

FROM Microsoft's Connect Site ( http://connect.micorsoft.com ) Do you have passion for technology? Do you want to make a difference? Then try out SQL Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) and provide your feedback. The SQL Server development team uses your comments to help refine and enhance product features. Download Release Candidate 0 from the Download Center! New! The SQL Server team presents the future of SQL Server! SQL Server 2008 represents a significant leap in features, functionality

So you can now download Books On Line for SQL Server 2008 by going to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=19db0b42-a5b2-456f-9c5c-f295cdd58d7a&DisplayLang=en . I started the process and I got an error on installation requiring a new version of Microsoft Installer. I have Vista SPI installed on this system. Yet I still do not have the latest installer. Curious. So further research shows that it needs version 4.5 which was just released on June 5th. You can find this at http

There are some items to validate on the Maximum Capacity Specification for SQL Server in BOL from CTP 6. 1) Database size: 1,048,516 terabytes? If you can only have 32,767 files and each data file can only be 16 TB, then wouldn't this equate to 524,272 TB for database size? Or has the number of files changed? Or has the size of a data file changed. Current BOL for SQL Server 2005 on http://msdn.microsoft.com show 524,272 TB 2) Instances per computer: -----32-bit: 50 instances on a stand-alone

During an internal presentation today, a co-worker asked a question about working with nulls using the new T-SQL syntax of “ += ” I tried the following code and it seems to work as expected. Feel free to give it a run. --Requires a SQL 2000 for validation. Code Works of course. PRINT 'Setting CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON' ; GO -- SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON and testing. SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON ; GO DECLARE @NullValue varchar ( 10 ) DECLARE @Alpha varchar ( 10 ) SET @Alpha = 'abc'

SchoolofDev is coming to Tulsa, Oklahoma! Following last year's extremely successful Tulsa TechFest, David Walker and his gang of great leaders in Northeastern OK are doing something a little different: I've been asked to present SQL Server topics on May 10th. I'll be showing a similar set of presentations which I did at Oklahoma City Developers Group's 2008 Launch Event. Here are the topics: SQL Server 2008: More of What You Want DBAs SQL Server 2008: Keeping Up with Today’s Development

My co-worker, friend, and overall brilliant guru, Joe Yong, has been interviewed by Joey Snow over at TechNet Edge. Joe asks him about upgrading to SQL 2008 from either 2000 or 2005 editions. He talks about our involvement in hundreds of upgrades and expands upon the tools we use and created. Technorati Tags: SQL , SQL Server , SQL Server 2008 , Upgrade Advisor , Upgrade Assistant , Scalability Experts.