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The Windows Essential Server Solutions products, specifically designed for for small and midsize businesses shipped this week. The servers included Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008, Microsoft's first-ever bundle for midsized businesses and Windows
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David Chappell has put together a white paper that provides an early look into how your application architecture changes with the introduction of Azure Services Platform . Chappell explains the platform in detail for architects and technical decision
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Beta releases of the Microsoft Web Platform includes the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WebPI) , and the Microsoft Web Application Installer (WebAI) . These installers are available for download from The Microsoft Web Platform . Microsoft Web Platform
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As an ISV, why should you move to SQL Server 2008? The simplest reason ISVs need to support 2008 is that your customers will be asking for it soon if they are not already. SQL Server 2008 is a very smooth upgrade from 2005 that adds key enhancements to
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The roadmap for business intelligence (BI) applications written in SQL Server was announced at the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference this week in Seattle. Codename Kilimangaro The next version of the SQL Server, code-named Kilimanjaro, is scheduled
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Have you wondered how well SQL Server 2008 will run in a Hyper-V environment? The SQL Server team has published a white paper with performance metrics of running certain workloads with and without Hyper-V. The goal of this document is to help address
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We invite you to join us for the second annual Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2008 , which will showcase market-leading Microsoft business intelligence (BI) products, solution expertise, and customer successes. The conference will be held
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Well, a lot has happened since my last post in this series... First and foremost, SQL Server 2008 has shipped! It's great to have our geospatial database in production now, and you can download the RTM trial bits from http://www.microsoft.com/sql , or
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We just published over 50 new sessions on our way to over 200 total sessions at Professional Developers Conference in October. Learn what’s in store for the future of ASP.NET. Have some fun with XNA and game development, or go in-depth with IronRuby.
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The Multi Tenant Data Access (MTDA) Blueprint, part of the Software-plus-Services Blueprint program, provides guidance on writing a SQL Server based, single instance, multi-tenant data access layer. The blueprint consists of: The base blueprint that generates
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Now that SQL Server has shipped, you can now download trial versions of SQL Server 2008 . Download a free, fully functional 180-day trial version of SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack today. To help make the most of your evaluation, you
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SQL Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. SQL Server 2008 is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers and will be available for evaluation download on Aug. 7, 2008. SQL Server 2008 Express and SQL Server Compact editions are available for
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The latest community technology preview of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition is now available on our download site . In addition to providing support for SQL Server 2008 database projects, this release incorporates many previously released
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I was asked by a partner this week what new features are in store for business intelligence. Here are some of the new features for BI. The links take you to a page to find datasheets, white papers, blogs, and webcasts. SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
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Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Server and Tools business, announced at Worldwide Partner Conference that Microsoft SQL Server 2008 would be on the price list in August. Several features are of interest specific to developers. LINQ
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