Fraser Dowall

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Archive for February, 2010

  Microsoft has the gloves off and is ready to rumble. It proudly shows 6 compelling reasons to switch to SQL Server from Oracle on their Microsoft in Government site. http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/products/server/sql2008.mspx#WhySwitch   Has Microsoft really surpassed Oracle?   Well their site claims so..:   SQL Server 2008 Oracle Performance and Scalability 1 1 Business Intelligence [...]

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StreamInsight in SQL Server 2008 R2

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

  REAL TIME REPORTING, not NEAR, NOT Yesterday.. NOW! SQL SERVER 2008 R2, a bold new era of some great new features. I wanted to share one that I have been looking at recently. STREAMINSIGHT The short of it is that you can now monitor a real time data stream for reports and or alerts. [...]

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Windows Live Writer

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

    OK, this is the best blog update tools that I’ve seen in a while. It’s simple to use, a clean interface and its free.  http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/default.aspx Don’t forget to check out all the plug ins too! Great Job Microsoft!! http://gallery.live.com/default.aspx?l=8  

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