Microsoft has publicly stated that SQL Server 2008 will RTM in Q3.  It is Quarter 3 now.  Where is it?  :-) I'm sure that the final touches will now get taken care of now that Bill Gates is no longer a full-time MSFT employee.  I'm sure that his ''short-timer'' attitude trickled down to the develpers working on the product and ...

A popular new data type that almost didn't make it in SQL Server 2008 will be available in CPT7. The new TinyGUID data type is similar to the full UniqueIdentifier data type except that, as the name implies, it's only 3 characters long – 29 characters less than the GUID saving 14 bytes, but still providing 46,656 (363) max values. The NewTinyID() ...

I just finished shooting my Smart Database Design video with Digital Media MVP Chuck Boyce in NYC, and we shot a short fun commercial in Times Square. I know - keep my day job.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc9tQOBWM2Y

My fellow countramen, I stand on a platform of change – change tracking, change data capture, and all events audited. I stand on a platform that’s scalable - with filtered indexes, reducing the taxing burden of IO with data compression and better utilization of partitioned tables. As a federalist, I stand for distributed partitioned views. ...

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Here are three links I recently found that Rock! Three, no Four, Programmer Virtues. StufBak tags for your Tech Gear.  Johnny Chung's Amazing head-tracking 3D interface using Wiimote. Watch the third demo. Imagine navigating queries, data, and cubes and being able to peak around the corners.  

The World of SQL Server is a bit like Blizzard’s MMORPG, World of Warcarft. If you haven’t played World of Warcraft, it’s a complete virtual alternate world. In both worlds… ·        you can specialize (e.g. warrior) or be a generalist (e.g. druid) ·        you can go it ...

A funny thing happened the other day. I was running 64-bit Dev edition on my 4Gb Vista 64-bit notebook. SQL Server was set to 1Gb RAM and I was running 10 scripts each continually inserting a new randomly generated person into a table. The goal was to generate 500 million rows. Meanwhile, I was checking email, doing some browsing, doing some ...

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