We had some very talented technical reviewers for our “Programmer’s Guide to SQL Server 2005” book. Some of them, like Greg Low and Roger Wolter, are well known in the blogging community.
I was happy to see that John Huschka and Jens Süßmeyer are both blogging. Jens has been blogging for a few months and has been posting screencasts too; John just started this week. These guys should have some interesting insights into SQL Server 2005 and related subjects. Subscribed!
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Yesterday’s blog post about Azure SQL Database V12 mentioned that one of the features I was particularly interested in seeing/testing were the spatial features. Interestingly,
In general, I usually hate “me too” announcement blog posts. Over the years, I’ve considered it less than useful to simply repeat “Product XXX released
A few months ago, I embarked on a project to learn more about data mining, machine learning and, as a prerequisite, statistics. I was tired
I’ve been experimenting with Power Query and the rest of the Power BI suite in Excel (desktop edition) since it was originally released. But, like
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