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Team System for Database Professionals December 11th, 2006

Vinod Kumar

Yup. It is out there and for folks who want to have a try at it. Here is the trail version for download.

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ITShowtime – Bookmarked December 10th, 2006

Vinod Kumar

This is an amazing website to bookmark and have. Has recordings from various events including TechEd 2006, WinHec and more. Worth a bookmark.

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Vista Security Guide December 9th, 2006

Vinod Kumar

Get to read and use some neat tools with enhanced security features on Vista. Get the same here.

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SQL Server Unicode considerations December 8th, 2006

Vinod Kumar

Lovely post from the ISV Management team on this topic. Read the blog post here.

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Connecting to Excel December 7th, 2006

Vinod Kumar

Excel is a powerful and wonderful tool to have. Sometimes it is quite debatable if it is a tool or an application in itself :). It is simply awesome. Here is a white paper on how to connect to external data sources and what are the various permissions to check while working with them. Catch the same here.

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Wanna try Office 2007? December 6th, 2006

Vinod Kumar

Here is your chance to get a full-fledged trial version of Office 2007 for a period of 60 days. Get it here.

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BI is everywhere December 4th, 2006

Vinod Kumar

I have started realizing that BI is taking front stage after the release of SQL Server 2005 and we really have a very good tools around this. Just incase you are interested in knowing where to start and what to do. Here are a set of wonderful webcasts, sessions that you might want to start with.

Kimbal Group Webcast

SQL 2005 BI Presentations

TechNet Webcasts on SQL 2005 BI

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Database Sizing Tools December 1st, 2006

Vinod Kumar

Here are some interesting links:

Microsoft Datasizer Tool

System Sizing Tools on the Dell Web Site

System Sizing Tools on the HP Web Site

System Sizing Tools for SQL Server on the Unisys Website

 

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