Monthly Archives: August 2008

Oxygene talk in Dundee

Posted on Thursday, 7 August, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Last night’s talk in Dundee on Oxygene was excellent. My journey up was a little fraught as an accident on the A80 meant that it took me 1h15m to travel the 20 miles from Glasgow to Stirling. By that point … Continue reading →

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SQL Server 2008 RTM

Posted on Thursday, 7 August, 2008 by Colin Mackay

It would appear that SQL Server 2008 has finally RTM’ed. MSDN and TechNet subscribers can now download it from their respective websites.

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Lincolnshire Microsoft Developers User Group

Posted on Monday, 4 August, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Some colleagues of mine are in the process of starting up the Lincolnshire Microsoft Developers User Group. If you are in the area and are interested in joining a user group (an excellent way to learn about technologies) then you … Continue reading →

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Tip of the Day #8 (string performance)

Posted on Monday, 4 August, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Concatenating strings in .NET can be very easy. There is the overloaded + operator that makes stringA + stringB + stringC statements very easy to write. But, it isn’t very performant. The reason is that strings are immutable, and concatenating … Continue reading →

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SQL Server / Visual Studio Install Order

Posted on Sunday, 3 August, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Yesterday I paved my laptop in order to upgrade to Windows Vista. I’ve now started to reinstall everything from scratch again. However, one thing that didn’t work out was the installation of SQL Server 2005. No matter what I tried … Continue reading →

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Installing SQL Server 2005 on Vista

Posted on Sunday, 3 August, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Perhaps this is not so much an issue with installing SQL Server 2005 on Vista, but of the way I install SQL Server 2005 on Vista, or even more accurately install it on my laptop on Vista. A SQL Server … Continue reading →

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Speaker Training full

Posted on Saturday, 2 August, 2008 by Colin Mackay

As I mentioned in the Scottish Developers July Newsletter Microsoft are running speaker training sessions to help community speakers get started or improve their skills with regard to technical presentations. I just got an email earlier today to say that … Continue reading →

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Monthly stats

Posted on Friday, 1 August, 2008 by Colin Mackay

I stopped posting my monthly stats because some of it was getting predictable. People seem to stumble across the same issues time and time again, although not the same person obviously. My post on Internal Error 2755 caused by Folder … Continue reading →

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A Cautionary Tale

Posted on Friday, 1 August, 2008 by Colin Mackay

XKCD can be variable in quality (or maybe I just don’t understand all the jokes), but it has this cautionary tale about Linux:   Technorati Tags: xkcd,catroon,linux,caution

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Speaking at SQL Bits III

Posted on Friday, 1 August, 2008 by Colin Mackay

I’ve just had the email through to let me know that my session has been selected for SQL Bits III on the 13th of September. I’ll be talking on the subject of Spatial Queries in SQL Server 2008, an evolving … Continue reading →

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