Chuck Heinzelman and I are on the Advisory Board for the THRIVE Campaign by Microsoft.   The THRIVE campaign is about getting people to use tools that they already own or are FREE to download in order to learn/enhance new skills.  I thought right away about SQL Server Express and how this could help people learn more about SQL ...

I was on a call with several other folks the other day discussing ''Katmai''.  The topic of DTS came up. MSFT had indicated that support for DTS would not go beyond SQL Server 2005 in a variety of channels.  I can remember the dozens of Upgrade Advisor messages that always appeared.  I just revisited the ''Advisory'' ...