The May 2008 edition of the Renaissance Computer Systems Ltd. newsletter is now available at http://www.renaissance.co.il/newsletters/NewsMay08.pdf This newsletter discusses some of the new projects we've been working on, including a White Paper we did for Microsoft Corp. on SQL Server 2008 and Visual...

Although it has been around since this past TechEd US, The Region has now moved to ists permanent home at http://www.theregion.com/ The Region is basically the public global center for the 140 Microsoft Regional Directors around the world. It is a single view into the blogs of all of these technical...

November's Israel Visual Basic User Group Meeting will be held on December1, 2004: 17:30 - 18:00 Assembly 18:00 - 18:10 Introduction 18:10 - 19:30 “ New Features for Developers in SQL Server 2005 – Part 1" Dubi Lebel, Microsoft Israel 19:30 - 19:45 Break 19:45 - 20:00 "Hatzilu !" Open session, with questions...

Next week I'll be in Dallas to speak at the VSLive conference there. Below are the 3 sessions I'll be presenting there - you can get all of the conference details at VSLive Dallas . VS Tools and Techniques for Distributed Data Access in VS 2008 This session will discuss several challenges facing developers...

Hello all webloggers!! Finally after much wait I got my blog space approved here. I really want to thank moderators (specially Terry for mail follow up) helping me out creating my weblog here. I; usually; blog about things and situation that I come across while development or something on which I succeeded...

So far in this series, I have been talking about traversing related data by navigating down the referential constraints. The physical database makes no distinction about the nature of the foreign key, whether it is parent-child relationship or another type of reference. In logical ER modeling, we often...

The company makes a surprise leap ahead of Business Objects and Cognos in its ability to execute on BI products and pricing. [from InformationWeek]   The Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008 is published by Gartner Research.

I just noticed that my blog is listed on the MSDN Data Access and Storage Developer Center . If you're not familiar with it, you should definitely check out this very usefull resource, run by Christa Carpentiere

A few weeks ago, The Renaissance Computer Systems web site was updated with a set of case studies describing our roles in several recent projects.  Check out Renaissance Case Studies and let me know if you have any comments.

If you couldn't make it to the PDC (or even if you did) you can download the session slides from here . Don't worry if you seem to be unrecognized - just keep going....