Buck makes a quick mention of the ''green'' efforts at Microsoft in his blog, and points us to the Environment site that Microsoft has created to show off what they are doing for a cause that is important to all of us.  There are several tidbits in here that can help you do your part, as well.  Please pass the word along. Share this ...

Details are here http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2008/06/07/sql-server-2008-rc0-now-available-for-subscribers.aspx More info once I have mine downloaded and installed under Hyper V

Read all about it here http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2008/06/04/new-logo-for-sql-server-2008.aspx Remind me to write a long and painfu post about the battle with Central Marketing during SQL 2000 as to why it was better(or NOT) to have a picture of a building on the box than the Red Braid that had been on many of the ...

Somehow I managed to miss this one (thanks to Erland for the pointer). Folks have been asking for access to docs on TDS since before I was involved in SQL Server, well now you can peruse(all 124 pages) to your hearts content. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc448435.aspx

Ever had to take over the code for a system you did not define? Ever found the documentation for such an app, to be ahemmm lacking?   Its  a fairly common ask from new app developers/ DBAs to find out if certain code is still being used for apps that have evolved over  a number of years. In SQL 2005 we added a DMV that allows you ...

Jeff has a follow up post to the demos from Mix here. The silverlight unit test framework is based on a special build of mstest's infrastructure, targetted at CoreCLR.   How cool is that :-)

The SQL 2008, VS2008, Windows Sever 2008 launch event in the US happened this week. Dan Jones has some highlight features that were announced; T-SQL Debugger is back Object Search is back Activity Monitor has effectively been rewritten to improve perf and usefulness

Apparently there is an issue in the CTPs of SQL Server 2008 related to leap year.  Although there is no known impact on SQL Server 2005 or prior versions at this time. The result of this issue is that SQL Server 2008 services will not start during the 24 hours of Feb 29 GMT. Action: Do NOT stop or restart any SQL Server 2008 services during ...

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/prodinfo/download.mspx

If you were at Seattle Code Camp this morning and heard me mention the new WCF load testing work that our Ranger team has been doing, Jeff has a great summary post here.