Monthly Archives: April 2007

Get Down with Your Feeds!

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Glenn Berry

NewsGator’s own Leland Rucker sings in this funny video.

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Windows Experience Index in Vista

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Tom’s Hardware has an interesting article about how the built in Windows Experience Index (WEI) benchmark system in Vista compares to various real world application benchmarks on various systems. Overall, WEI tracks pretty well with most of the real application … Continue reading →

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Interesting Microsoft Marketing Image

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Someone in marketing at Microsoft had an interesting idea to use a picture of a young Bill Gates to promote Visual Studio. I think it is a pretty good approach…

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Cumulative Update Package (Build 3161) for SQL Server 2005 SP2 is Available

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft has released another cumulative update package for SQL Server 2005 SP2. Microsoft KB935356 describes the package in more detail, along with the fixes that it includes. There is no public download for this package, you have to call PSS … Continue reading →

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Fun with Corrupt SQL Server 2005 Databases

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft’s Paul Randal has a useful post that describes some alternatives for dealing with and hopefully preventing corrupt SQL Server 2005 databases. He includes a sample database that he intentionally broke that you can use to play with. Very good … Continue reading →

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News from Intel Spring IDF

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Glenn Berry

TgDaily has a short article about the Intel Spring IDF in Beijing that has lots of tantalizing details about Intel’s future server platform plans. The most interesting part in my opinion was the news about the "Caneland" platform and the … Continue reading →

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Avoiding Calculations and Functions in WHERE Clauses

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Here is an example of how a simple query change can make a pretty dramatic change in cost and performance.  Generally speaking, you want to avoid doing calculations or calling functions in the WHERE clause of your queries. There is … Continue reading →

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Intel Santa Rosa PC Platform

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Intel’s Mooly Eden announced details about the upcoming Santa Rosa platform (due by the end of June). It will include Enhanced Dynamic Acceleration Technology, which according to Eden is: "The idea is the following," explained Eden. "If you are running … Continue reading →

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Update for Outlook 2007 (KB933493)

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft has posted a patch for Outlook 2007 that is meant to improve performance. This should be a welcome update for many users, who have complained about Outlook 2007 performance.

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More U.S.M.C. Pictures from Beirut 1983

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Glenn Berry

Chris Mrosko has another set of nice photos from Lebanon in 1983. This is great stuff.

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