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Demo or Commercial?

On Microsoft's SQL Server Yukon web site, there is a link to Watch SQL Server “Yukon” Demo, described as a “10-minute overview of key features and functionality“. And here we have where developers and management part ways. Read more →

Better Posts Through Reading

There are a LOT of people that are blogging from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference this week. I've been reading several of the feeds (thanks to Newsgator) this week and am learning a lot. Read more →

Trying out Newsgator

A few months ago, I was introduced to the concept of RSS feeds by a weekly humor email list that I subscribe to called This Is True. I read up on the idea and learned about this aggregator software that plugs into Outlook called Newsgator. Read more →

Multi-Values are Evil Incarnate

My name is Mark, and I was a MV (multi-value) database user. It all began when I was in college (late 1980s) and became the IT department for a small company whose business depended on a massively outdated Prime minicomputer. Read more →