Friday, November 25, 2005

What is held in MSSQLSYSTEMRESOURCE.MDF ?

This came up as a question this morning and I found a great answer+info Here.

There are answers to other questions you may have as well if you click on the title within the page !-)

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

SQL Server 2005 Online Training FREE.................

Those nice people at Microsoft have gone and provided poor IT students (are there such?) with access to free learning materials, at least for a time, I would book up and learn as soon as possible before they start charging!

This is great to see, it brings the same kind of dedication to education of the IT professional that MS first demonstrated on the home front, for the private individual. Their strides into the development of tools like the Encarta Dictionary made resources available to the modern child that wouldn't have even been a dream in my childhood! Now we hear of clockwork PC's to be made available throughout the world for less than a hundred pounds each!

I have tried these courses and they are rather good, although the questions are a bit light in the current versions, and there are a couple of areas that could have done with a bit more QA.

If you are here, then bookmark this now

Friday, November 11, 2005

More learning resources for SQL Server 2005

There is a site called SearchTechTarget.com which contains a very useful resource guide for anybody interested in learning about the latest release of SQL Server Here.

Friday, November 04, 2005

MS releases SQL Server 2005 and aids learning

Now that SQL Server 2005 has been released to manufacturing it is time to ramp up the learning. It and the associated tools that Microsoft have released over the recent days are going to cause a lot of flurry in the training world. Because the products have been tried and tested so much by potential customers before the launch, they will add value straight out of the box. This means reduced business risk of using them and less of a need to wait for the products to stabalise. And an increased risk of waiting to implement them, because the features offer business advantage that was hard to deliver with previous incarnations of the products.

To smooth the learning curve microsoft have produced online learning material covering "SQL Server 2005 New Features for Developers".

You can get access to the virtual environment where this material is available at http://www.msreadiness.com/IL_abstract.asp?eid=5007360.