Euan Garden's BLOG
Life, the Universe, MS, VS, Testing and SQL Server
We get asked for this a lot and we are looking to address it in the future, for now Michael has a...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/09/2007
This is a cool project for lots of reasons; There is a real need for this It has already been used...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 05/02/2007
Seems like Mike has the info on whats going wrong and how long it will be before its fixed.
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 04/09/2007
There are several ways but the most commonly used approach of using linked servers hits ona 1000 row...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 03/22/2007
Mairead is asking for more feedback here.
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 03/21/2007
Paul is the PM, he made the announcement today.
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/22/2007
Database Diagrams in SQL Server 2005 and VS 2005 were one of the more ahem controversial issues....
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/21/2007
Ok I am being brave again and forward posting this, SP2 is done and should be available for download...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/19/2007
I think its fair to say that this 100+ page monster is the definitive SSAS 2005 Perf White paper,...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/15/2007
This question has been coming up a lot internally lately, short answer is: Data...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 02/08/2007
Linchi continues his excellent series analyzing the impact of new system features in SQL Server 2005...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/29/2007
Soon according to Paul.
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/23/2007
Nice work Dan and team, you can get it here, including some of the source. There is a link that page...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/23/2007
When it was announced that there was a default trace that was on in SQL Server 2005 lots of people...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/18/2007
I mean SQL Server CE, SQL Server Mobile, SQL Server Everywhere...oh well you get the idea. Lots of...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/16/2007
and how its managed, and how its different in RTM, SP1 and SP2? Start here, it took me 2 nights to...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/16/2007
No not a reference to the movie but a great set of videos to help folks get started with SSE. You...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/04/2007
Scott Guthrie has produced a great tutorial in using the CTP of the Publishing Wizard over here. I...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/03/2007
Welcome to 2007! As seems to be the trend here is the list of most popular posts for the last year,...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 01/01/2007
Just in time for Christmas get it here. This will be the last CTP of SP2 so get testing and have a...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/24/2006
I was reading through some of the PASS slides from MS Presenters that were shared out internally....
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/12/2006
You can get it here, more details from Gert here Congrats to the team, its less than 2 years since...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/11/2006
SQL Server 2005 includes a lot of changes to help make moving from Oracle to SQL Server easier,...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 12/08/2006
Get it while its hot! Whats New Download Page (this will be live later today) I know a lot of people...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 11/07/2006
Dan announced this a little while back here. One of the challenges that we did not really come up...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 10/31/2006
The final CTP of DataDude is now live, Gert blogged lots of info here. Matt clarifies the licensing...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 10/24/2006
Remember SQL Express has a limitation of a single proc and 1GB of RAM (for the Buffer Pool), so can...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 10/03/2006
In previous versions of SQL Server there was a licensing app that was integrated into control panel...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 09/28/2006
The folks from CSS have a huge amount of knowledge and while there have been a couple of bloggers I...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 09/26/2006
I'm sad, I admit there are sometimes very small things that get added to products that get me...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 09/21/2006
One of the cooler features in SSMS is the vast amount of info thats integrated via the summary page...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 09/07/2006
I linked to Craig's blog when he started but he has had a series of CRACKING posts on joins. I...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 08/24/2006
In case you missed the 1,000s of other posts you can find it here. Highlights so far (for me at...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 08/23/2006
Have you been following Made In Express? If not then its still ok, the 12 finalists are done and now...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 08/22/2006
The folks at SQLTeam have done some analysis on different ways of importing text files, you can read...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/27/2006
The 3rd update to SQL Server 2005 Books On Line(BOL) is now available here, also the online version...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/25/2006
Technorati Profile
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/25/2006
As a follow up to Tuesdays post, lets take a look at how this changes with SQL Express. (as always a...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/20/2006
FAQ (With a little history), How do I copy tables with Keys and constraints from one Server/DB to another Server/db?
I see this question come up in 2 main contexts, one is express users the other is users who thought...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/18/2006
Get it while its hot!
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/13/2006
This is not the answer to all occurences of the issue but try the following; Shut down SSMS. Go into...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/11/2006
The folks on the BI Practices Team(now merged in with the SQL Server Perf Engineering Team) have...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/06/2006
The SQL Everywhere guys have started blogging in fine style with 3 good posts today. You can read...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 07/04/2006
I've been catching up on my KB reading, I was prompted to go read this article by Robert Dorr, one...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/29/2006
When Paul starting talking about Microsofts vision for data a while back one of the key pillars was...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/27/2006
Can be found here. Why is this especially interesting? well it includes the following; Bug fixes...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/26/2006
No And now the explanation. I have seen a fair number of folks having problems getting data dude...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/22/2006
When we first released the Oracle Migration Assistant we had a ton of requests for other platforms....
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/20/2006
Data Dude CTP bits can be got here, its an .img file which I a cd image, hence needs either exploded...
Author: Euan Garden - MSFT Date: 06/15/2006