November 2007 - Posts

• December WARDY IT Community Dinner

  The final WARDY IT Community Dinner for 2007 is being held at Mint Indian Gourmet, Fortitude Valley on Monday the 17 th of December. To RSVP to be at this event send an email to peter @ wardyit.com. WHERE Mint Indian Gourmet | 394 Brunswick Street | Fortitude Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:15 AM by admin | (Comments Off)

• Free Inside SQL Server 2005 Books

  Any bookings that are completed for Kalen Delaney's SQL Server Architecture, Internals and Optimisation course prior to the 30th of November 2007 receive the entire four book series of Inside SQL Server 2005 valued at over $400.00. Make sure you do not Read More... Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 7:20 AM by admin | (Comments Off)

• Data Dude 2008

  With the release of Visual Studio 2008 comes the release of Visual Studio 2008 Team System Database Edition. The main change in this release is that Data Dude is now integrated into the standard VS setup. For more details regarding this release refer Read More... Posted Thursday, November 22, 2007 3:49 PM by admin | (Comments Off)

• SQL Server 2008 CTP5 Available

  After much anticipation the CTP 5 (Community Technology Preview) of SQL Server 2008 is available. This CTP includes the first look at 2008 Express Edition. The Express Edition as well as the x86, x64, and IA64 releases can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3BF4C5CA-B905-4EBC-8901-1D4C1D1DA884&displaylang=en Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:30 PM by admin | (Comments Off)

• SMO Impersonate Windows Account

  I received an email from a colleague this morning asking how to use SMO to impersonate another windows user to connect to SQL Server. Below is how this can be achieved using SMO: Dim myServerConn As New Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ServerConnection Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:23 PM by admin | (Comments Off)

• And the Winner is...

  Jeff was one of the finalist's selected to present at Speaker Idol at Tech-Ed Developers 2007 in Barcelona and guess what...Jeff was the Speaker Idol 2007 winner , meaning he will be back at Tech-Ed Developers 2008 as a Speaker. Read More... Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 11:02 AM by admin | (Comments Off)

• October SQL Server Newsletter

  The October 2007 edition of the WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server Newsletter has been e-mailed to everyone on the distribution list. For those not on the distribution list you can view the newsletter using the following URL http://www.wardyit.com/newsletters/oct2007.htm Read More... Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 11:09 AM by admin | (Comments Off)