April 2006 - Posts
SQL Server 2005 SP1 has been released. For a list of bugs that have been fixed, refer to
this link. You can download the service pack
here.
Just read this letter from Paul Flessner (VP of Server Applications at Microsoft) that there are going to be two new things to look out for.
SQL Server AlwaysOn Technologies, will be the combination of some of the core high availability components of SQL Server like database mirroring, failover clustering, database snapshots etc. The presence of these components will ensure that businesses are always up and running.
SQL Server Everywhere, will be a lightweight version of SQL Server 2005 that is ideal for occasionally connected applications, smart application etc and will be compatible with other editions of SQL Server by sharing a common programming model. The first CTP of SQL Server Everywhere is expected to ship this summer.
Read more about these product offerings at: SQL Server 2005 Update From Paul Flessner.
NHibernate is an ORM layer for .NET and is a port of the hugely successful Hibernate ORM layer for Java. I'm working on a NHibernate project and one of issues that I had was to get intellisense while authoring the metadata XML for NHibernate in VS 2005. The documentation specified a location where we need to place the schema files for NHibernate to enable intellisense.
Turns out that this location is different in VS 2005. The location to place schema files to enable intellisense in VS 2005 is: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas. The locations and drive letter can change depending on where you installed VS 2005, but once you put in your schema here, you get full intellisense.
Today (April 3rd) Microsoft announced that Virtual Server R2 can be downloaded free and that there is also a VM add-in for Linux. Both of these are news items that are too good to ignore. Check out:
Virtual Server 2005 R2 is Free