The folks at JetBrains just posted the first one today: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+4.5+Nightly+Builds I love, love, love ReSharper except when it crashes… I’ve had a fair bit of problems with the new 4.5 so I’m definitely going to try it out. I’m tired of Visual Studio 2008 crashing once I upgraded to...
Scott Whigham and the guys over at LearnItFirst just finished uploading my new Windows Server 2008 training course! It’s over at http://www.learnwindows2008.com/ and you can watch free Windows 2008 videos over there as well. Here’s a few links to what I think are some good videos: How to Join a...
ars technica pointed out yesterday that the Microsoft Partner homepage shows that Windows 7 release candidate 0 (RC0) has been released onto TechNet and MSDN. I logged into LearnItFirst’s MSDN account (they are MSFT certified partners) but it isn’t there just yet: So hopefully it should be any day now....
Database responsiveness can slowdown for a variety of reasons – locking issues, poorly written code, lack of indexes, etc. To help you design a general methodology for diagnosing and troubleshooting performance problems, the SQL Server team has published this SQL Server performance tuning whitepaper, Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server...
So it looks like Microsoft has fully embraced "2010" as the standard for all products coming out in 2010 (no surprise?). The next version of Exchange is....... Exchange Server 2010! You can download the current beta (version 14.00.0482.020) from the MSFT site here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1898ed2c-2f88-48ac-824e-d3d20fad77d7 Exchange 2010 comes with some pretty...
So I installed SQL Server 2008 SP1 on a test machine last week and, after doing other things for the past week, I came back to my SQL Server 2008 and started the service. I then tried to connect using Management Studio and, after a few seconds, I got this...
As often happens around a service pack 1 release (see SQL Server 2008 SP1 Released!), MSFT released a flurry of other downloads as well. This time, we get a Feature Pack, a new Report Builder, some B.I. stuff, and even a new Upgrade Advisor. Here’s a listing with links of...
And guess what – no new features in the SQL Server itself! I was somewhat surprised that there aren’t any new sp_configure bits or new trace flags… Now, there are new things; just no new features in the SQL Server Database Engine. New Stuff: Slipstreaming installations – allows us to...
