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Boise SQL Server User Group Presentation

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:24:13 GMT

Thanks to those who attended the second meeting of the Boise SQL Server User Group . We had a good turnout of around 30 people and I hope everyone enjoyed my presentation of SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS). I tried to balance the presentation...(read more)

Boise SQL Server User Group

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:45:07 GMT

The newly formed Boise SQL Server User Group kicks off its first meeting with Kalen Delaney on June 25, 2008. I'm happy to see a Microsoft SQL Server user group in Boise. It will fit nicely with the other development and SharePoint groups in town. For...(read more)

Remembering Jim Gray and a Tribute

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:01:58 GMT

Time flies. It's been a year since Dr. Gray, a Microsoft research fellow and Turing Award-winner, went missing while sailing off San Francisco. A year ago, at Boise Code Camp 2.0, I hosted a session on finding Jim Gray , using Amazon's Mechanical Turk....(read more)

Microsoft P&P Releases Team Development with Team Foundation Server Guide

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:30:34 GMT

Microsoft's Patterns & Practices group recently released the final version of the “Team Development with Team Foundation Server” Guide. This guide has been in beta for the last couple of months. It shows you how to get the most out of Team Foundation...(read more)

XML Notepad 2007!

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:01:54 GMT

My students this week told me about the new version . I remember using the original XML Notepad, and it was great, very simple. For the longest time, I couldn't find it on Microsoft's site to download, and then a newer version showed up on CodePlex....(read more)

Removing pingback, trackback, and comment spam from dasBlog

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:50:18 GMT

Ok, I finally got fed up with all of the spam in my historical dasBlog postings. It's really embarrassing to send a link to a a colleague, only to have them snicker at all of the spam comments and trackbacks. For those of you who don't know what a trackback...(read more)

Project Server 2007 VSTS Connector released

Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:36:26 GMT

This week Microsoft released the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – Project Server 2007 connector as a CodePlex project . The project has been up for a few weeks, but is now being broadly advertised. The TFS-PS2007 connector is designed to integrate...(read more)