October 2008 - Posts

• Interview With Denny Cherry About SQL Server

  I have known Denny Cherry for a while now, consider him a friend and was always impressed with his SQL Server knowledge. I asked him to do an interview and as you can see he agreed. Denny, the first time I came across your name was in online forums. Can Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:48 PM by Denis Gobo | 0 Comments Filed under: Interview

• The code name for the next version of SQL Server is Kilimanjaro

  After Hydra,Sphinx, Shiloh (32 bit) and Liberty (64 bit), Yukon and Katmai we finally got to codename Kilimanjaro. So Kilimanjaro will be the codename for SQL Server 11 Nothing more to say here :-( [Edit]Apparently there is more to say here because Kilimanjaro Read More... Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 9:32 PM by Denis Gobo | 4 Comments Filed under: Kilimanjaro

• Converting IP Addresses Between Bigint and Varchar And How to Sort IP Addresses

  I was wondering yesterday what else to add to the SQL Server Programming Hacks , I used twitter and asked for some inpiration and K. Brian Kelley responed with Some systems store IPs as large integers. Converting back and forth would be cool . Interesting, Read More... Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 3:26 PM by Denis Gobo | 10 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2008, Sorting

• Run Microsoft Windows Server And SQL Server on Amazon EC2

  Amazon made an annoucement today that you will be able to run Microsoft Windows Server And SQL Server on Amazon EC2. Starting later this Fall, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2 ) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:46 PM by Denis Gobo | 3 Comments Filed under: cloud computing