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Sunday, April 26, 2009

New home for my blog

I have been trying to setup a new home for my blog and I am almost done with it. I am moving my blog to http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/jacob/default.aspx

Those of you who are subscribed to the RSS feeds of this blog, please take note of the new RSS feed URL: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ExploringBeyondRelational

Hope to meet you at http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/jacob/default.aspx

Friday, April 24, 2009

TSQL Challenges are moving to a new website

I am moving the TSQL challenges to a new ‘exclusive’ blog that is dedicated only for TSQL challenges. The new site will function in a little more organized and structured manner. We will come up with a new challenge every week(friday) and make sure that the we will announce the winners on the monday after the closing date of the challenge.

The new home page of ‘TSQL Challenges’ is http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/tc/default.aspx

TSQL Challenge 5 is live and can be found at http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/tc/archive/2009/04/24/tsql-challenge-5.aspx

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Friday, April 17, 2009

Ahmedabad SQL Server User Group – April Meeting (18 April 2009)

I would like to invite everyone to the April Meeting of Ahmedabad SQL Server UG. We will meet tomorrow (Saturday, 18 April 2009) at our new office, 302 OLIVE ARCADE, OPP Samudra Anexe, OFF CG Road, Ahmedabad at 6 PM.

This month, we will discuss the XML features of SQL Server 2008 and as usual will have a QA session to discuss general SQL Server Topics. We will also discuss the community plans for the upcoming Tech-ED India 2009 and the discount options for the UG members. There will be some give-away items in addition to the usual ice-cream and snacks :-)

Hope to see many of you tomorrow!

Monday, April 13, 2009

Saturday, April 04, 2009

TSQL Challenge 3 – Results by next week

Hi All,

I could not review and announce the winners of TSQL Challenge 3 yet. I am currently travelling and I will do this early next week.

Get ready for the next challenge!

cheers!

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

TSQL Challenge 2 – Winners

moved to http://beyondrelational.com/tc/challenge2

SQL Server 2008 – New Whitepapers Published

There are a couple of new SQL Server 2008 white papers published this week. The first one is on “Service Broker Performance Scalability Techniques” and the second is on “Partitioned Tables and Index Strategies”

SQL Server 2008 White Paper - Service Broker: Performance and Scalability Techniques
SQL Server 2008 White Paper - Partitioned Table and Index Strategies Using SQL Server 2008

Friday, March 13, 2009

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Friday, February 27, 2009

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Ahmedabad SQL Server User Group: February 2009 Meeting

I am a little late to post details of the UG meeting held on 21st February 2009, and I feel bad for keeping you waiting for so long. I was busy finishing some assignments at work. I am flying to Seattle tomorrow to attend the MVP Global Summit. I hope I will have a great time meeting other SQL Server MVPs and many of the SQL Server Team members.

Coming back to the UG meeting, we really had a wonderful time discussing many of the basic SQL Server questions. Pinal Dave has already posted a very detailed blog post covering the activities. He did a wonderful session where he presented some very interesting points related to the way SQL Server Query Optimizer uses indexes.

My session was more of an interactive discussion. While writing my series of posts on SQL Server IDENTITY columns, I came across several interesting questions and I then compiled a long list of 65 questions. We discussed those 65 questions and their answers and the 'why-how' part of each of them. I will create a PDF document with those questions and will make them available for download.

Here are some photographs:

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Pinal Dave

jacob

Jacob Sebastian

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Group Photo

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