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    Understanding the new approach to Service Packs

    As we’ve previously written about on this blog, we will be releasing Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2005 in CY2008 following the release to manufacturing of SQL Server 2008.
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    SQL Server 2005 SP3 – coming soon

    Over the last year we have successfully established the Incremental Servicing Model (ISM), which has to date delivered 7 cumulative updates (CU) to our customers, in regular 8 week intervals.
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    Unbreakable?

    Oracle recently released their latest Critical Patch Update which fixes vulnerabilities “in hundreds of Oracle products”.
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    India Launch events

    I just got back from a 2 week trip to India, taking part in their local launch events.
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    Accelerate mobile development with SQL Server Compact 3.5

    Exciting news for developers looking to build SQL Server based applications that target mobile devices — the new Microsoft® Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008 has been released and is now available for download from here! This new accelerator consists of a working Supply Chain application, over 5,000 lines of well documented source […]
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    entities, Entities, ENTITIES!

    It’s getting louder If you’ve been following Microsoft’s efforts around data programmability, you’ll have inevitably heard a thing or two about “entities”.
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