I've been reading Rocky Lhotka 's posts from today on Remoting , SOA as RPC and Services having tiers . I think he's right about a lot of what he has to say and that got me thinking about SQL Server 2005's Web Services and Service Broker (again). Continues here...

Suppose for a moment that you could have access to any assembly you had a good use case for inside of some future version of SQLCLR that was "SAFE." What assemblies would you want? What could you do with that you can’t do today? My biggest wish is for System.DirectoryServices since it is about the best...

Christa points us to the The definitive word on SQLCLR . At least I know what I'm having for lunch today... We've just published another whitepaper on MSDN, Using CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005 , about your programmatic choices in SQL Server 2005 - CLR integration, T-SQL and xprocs - and how to choose...

Hurry up and go take this survey... if you care about GUI Database Design tools! http://whdc.microsoft.com/vsdata/databasediagramming.aspx This is directly how the community can get involved in helping MS design the products we use ( and sometimes abuse... )

I've not really blogged much about Code Camp II since getting back from Boston. Mostly my own fault. But let me tell you, Thom and Joe put together one great show and if you, can I highly recommend going to the next iteration of it scheduled for Q1 2005. The highlight for me was getting to talk about...

...you better get on it ASAP . I'm hopefull that we're going to see a blizzard of activity there in the next few days related to SQL Server 2005 Express, Express Manager (XM) and build releases. 'nuff said?

Glen Gordon is doing a web cast on it this Thursday. Register here. It should be over before mine (on Reporting Services) if you're interested in both.