Contents tagged with SQL Server
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Announcing the NJ SQL Server User Group
It has been a long time coming, but NJ will finally see the return of a SQL Server User Group. I’ve been trying to get this group going for about a year now, and the biggest hang-ups has been trying to get a location, and finding volunteers to help run the group. Well, we solved both issues with the help of the great folks at SetFocus (who run the Northern NJ .Net User Group N3UG). My wife, Melissa (aka SQL Diva), is going to run the user group, and SetFocus will let us hold the meetings in their facility in Parsippany, NJ (which is very close to where I live, and makes it possible for Melissa to run the group). The meeting will be held the 3rd Tues. of the month (a week after the .Net User Group), and will start on Jan. 17th. Informal networking begins at 6PM and the presentation starts at 6:30 (until about 8PM).
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SQL Server Replication Book
If you are looking for information on installing, configuring, and troubleshooting SQL Server Replication, and need more than just the documentation (and who doesn’t), then there is just one place to get it, and that is SQL Server MVP Hilary Cotter’s new book, A Guide to SQL Server 2000 Transactional and Snapshot Replication. If you are using SQL Server Replication, and do not have this book, then you are definitely doing things the hard way.
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DataMapper Performance Statistics On VS2005 Beta 1 and SQL Server 2005 Beta2
I took the code from my previous DataMapper examples, which was written for .Net 1.1 and SQL2K, and ported it to VS2005 Beta 1 with SQL Server 2K5. I did not have to change one line of code in either the sprocs or in the 1.1 C# code (great going VS & SQL team). Since my example code also used the DAAB 3.1, I decided to port that too, with no issues. Since I was going to be testing the beta versions running in VPC, I new that I would not be able to compare my original stats to the new stats. But since what I’m really after was performance differences versus a baseline of the DataReader, and comparing those numbers, running on a host OS versus a VPC OS should not be a factor (as long as the OS is the same, which it was, Windows XP).
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Restarting the NJ SQL Server User Group
There has been some discussion lately about restarting the NJ SQL Server user group amongst the NJ MVPs, and it looks like it will be a go. I purchased the url www.njsql.org, downloaded the new Community Server Forums, and began the task of creating a skin for the new site. It will contain both forums, and blogs (some syndicated from my site, and my wife’s, plus the ability to host new blogs, thanks to .Text). We are shooting for the first meeting to be in September, and it will not compete with either the NYC SQL Server group (which recently restarted), or the local NJ .Net groups. The focus of the group will be on topics of interest to development DBAs (people that write sprocs and DTS packages) rather than support DBAs (back/recovery, etc.) will be heavily into the new SQL Server 2005 features, along with OLAP and Analysis Services. The actual location has not been decided, but it will be either at the NJ Microsoft office, or if they relocate that office (as rumored), we will find a spot in Morris or western Union counties (Summit would be an excellent location thanks to the train line).