While getting ready for the PASS Community Summit in Orlando this week (where I plan to talk about SQL Server 2005 Partitioned Tables/Indexes), I realized we were close but not quite ready to release the post-beta II whitepaper on MSDN.

So, in preparation for PASS we decided to post a pre-release of the partitioning paper here.

Enjoy!

See you in Orlando... eventually?!

Each year as the weeks approach my September trip to Florida, I hear about hurricane after hurricane. I always wonder why conferences choose September (or August or October for that matter) in Orlando?? However, having said that - I've been to Orlando in September for the last 3 years and the weather's always been perfect! OK - I've probably just jinxed it?!

If you're going to be there, make sure to stop by and say hi! I'm delivering a pre-conf on Tuesday and a SQL Server 2005 session on Wednesday as well as sitting in on the Women in Technology Luncheon on Friday. The luncheon's are quite fun too! I've now done a couple of these and we typically end up chatting about how we got into high tech and how we stay motivated (which quite honestly, doesn't only apply to women!).

I hope to see you there!

A few weeks ago I was asked to demo some of my favorite management tools for a team building event internally at Microsoft (the BI Division of the SQL Team). One of the tools I chose was Profiler because I wanted to highlight the new Performance Monitor integration that allows you to correlate performance monitor data with SQL Server data... For the most part this blog entry is what I demo'ed, a few of the tricks I learned to get everything "working" together and a couple more features about SQL Management Studio that I like.

A few weeks ago I was asked to demo some of my favorite management tools for a team building event internally at Microsoft (the BI Division of the SQL Team). One of the tools I chose was SQLCMD. I led into it with one of my favorite SQL Management Studio features so I'll start with that and then go into SQLCMD. For the most part this blog entry is my likes (and there are many) and gotchas (yes, it is beta) but overall it's a big two thumbs up!