Today the SQL Server Team announced the availability of three major CTP’s and several new upcoming projects in the SQL related family tree.   The major (August 2009) CTP’s are: SQL Server 2008 R2 SQL Server StreamInsight SQL Azure Although all three releases are another... [More]

It’s been a week or two now since MEF Preview 6 was released and we can see the team actually has listened carefully to the community with this update.   The Release Notes provide a decent place to start when upgrading Preview 5 to Preview 6 samples, so you really should read them. Most thin... [More]

Starting tomorrow, I have a short two week holiday planned. That means no I/O when it comes to development, troubleshooting, management jibberish, e-mail, phone… or simply whatever.   But just to tick off some of the colleagues who will be working in a seething, roaring 30+ degree centigrade... [More]

A bit of history here. Belgians are the southern neighbours of the Dutch. And ever since the Belgian Revolution approx. 1830 AD led them to a sovereign state, we – as in “we” being the Dutch – take every opportunity we get on making fun of them. But on a cultural level, the B... [More]

    Bernard: [Unties the tentacles] There, you're free to go. Green Tentacle: Thanks, Bernard! Purple Tentacle: Yes. Thank you, naive human. Now, I can finish taking over the world! [Purple Tentacle leaves] Thomb, thomb, thomb! Green Tentacle: Wait! Bernard: Oh yeah. Now ... [More]