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InterOp on Windows Azure
This recent PDC over the couple of days has tons of announcements to go a look forward from a Microsoft technologies point of view. One of the important announcement which I had the privilege to watch is the InterOp story esp around the Cloud Platform...
Posted 11-20-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 - CTP
The Solution Accelerators Team is offering customers and partners added inventory and assessment capabilities with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP). The MAP Toolkit 5.0 CTP provides customers and...
Posted 11-10-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Free useful Tech-Books
Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf Learn about the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 in the areas of virtualization, management, the...
Posted 11-09-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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VS 2010, .NET 4.0 Beta2 & Channel 9
Couple of days back we did announce the availability of Visual Studio 2010 to the MSDN subscribers and there are enough online buzz around the product. I will be installing the same just like you folks sometime on Monday as I have a session to deliver...
Posted 10-23-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Extending Life of your Computer - Tips
Recently, I have had the opportunity to replace my home laptop and one of my demo Laptops because of different reasons. I have been a bit relaxed on maintaining these laptops and hence the headaches followed and some resolution had to be made. Now that...
Posted 10-15-2009 by vinodkumar | 3 comment(s)
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SQLCAT Articles – SQL 2008
The SQL Server Customer Advisory Team handles tons and tons of large deployments and they try to go ahead and document all their findings for the benefit of the larger community. Their whitepapers are generally loaded with loads of information that I...
Posted 10-07-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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MapPoint Add-in for SQL Server 2008
It has been close to a month of the release and I have been wanting to drop a line on this. The MapPoint 2009 Add-in for SQL Server 2008 capitalized on the spatial data that come out-of-box with SQL Server and integrates with the maps. More about it is...
Posted 09-23-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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ZoomIT V4.0 from SysInternals
I do a lot of these presentations and many times I use some zomming tools to show the code and explain the concepts. And a number of times people have come back to me asking what that tool was … No rocket science :) … I have been using ZoomIT from Sysinternals...
Posted 09-09-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Releases from P&P in 2009
I have been an advocate of the releases from time-to-time as I hear of them over this blog. But I thought I will consolidate the same in one post of all the releases made till date on P&P (Patterns and Practices Team) for your quick reference. Enterprise...
Posted 09-02-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Interop bridge for PHP developers to .NET - PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services
Microsoft is releasing the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services which makes it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of ADO.NET Data Services, a set of features recently added to the .NET Framework. ADO.NET Data Services offer a simple way to expose...
Posted 08-21-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Win7 Upgrade Paths
This document outlines what all are the supported upgrade paths available when considering to move to Windows 7. Download it here .
Posted 07-22-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Database Mirroring Part II - ExtremeExperts
Finally, after some long break and just me to blame about, I got my next article online today on Database Mirroring - Part II . Though I committed in writing more often, it just didnt happen. This article calls out a number of aspects that one needs to...
Posted 07-21-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Resource Governor - Whitepaper
Here is an excellent whitepaper on Resource Governor with SQL Server 2008. I have seen wonderful potential for this feature especially in datacenter environements and one needs to really get into the nuts-and-bolts to get this feature tapped efficiently...
Posted 07-16-2009 by vinodkumar | 1 comment(s)
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Common SQL Server Security Issues and Solutions
I got an opportunity to bump into two articles from Paul Randal on TechNet on this very topic - Common SQL Server Security Issues and Solutions Top tips for Effective Database Maintenance This is really a good read if you are working with SQL Server.
Posted 07-07-2009 by vinodkumar | 2 comment(s)
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Win7-Beta End-Of-Life !!!
Well, it is not that bad actually :). If you did install Windows 7 Beta version (Build 7000) then your system can be behaving strangely by reinstalling every couple of hours. This is an expected behaviour and DONOT ignore this. Please UPGRADE to Win7...
Posted 07-03-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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