November 2007 - Posts

• Casey Kasem is in the machine

  Here's a neat database implementation. Have a song in your head, but don't remember the name? Got a microphone hooked up to that workstation of yours? Then head on over to midomi.com , where they have a database just for you. With a very minimal segment Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:28 AM by AaronBertrand | 0 Comments Filed under: fun database stuff

• November CTP (CTP5) is now publicly available!

  What are you waiting for? Go get it! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3BF4C5CA-B905-4EBC-8901-1D4C1D1DA884 Why are you still reading this? Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More... Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 2:22 PM by AaronBertrand | 4 Comments Filed under: katmai, SQL Server 2008

• November CTP : Initial impressions of SSMS changes

  [Updates below in BOLD.] On loading SSMS for the first time, I noticed a few things. First of all, the row(s) affected message is now prefixed with information on the instance and login relevant to the query execution: As illustrated in the graphic, this Read More... Posted Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:16 PM by AaronBertrand | 7 Comments Filed under: SSMS, katmai, SQL Server 2008

• Resistance is futile! The CLR is everywhere.

  This week I picked up my new car and was a bit amused to see this on their version of iDrive: What's funnier is, like Java threatened to take over the appliance world 10 years ago, we're probably not that far off from having cars with embedded MP3 players Read More... Posted Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:22 PM by AaronBertrand | 2 Comments