SQL Server 2005

[Tip] "Real" paging of data records using SQL Server 2005

Gaurav Khanna [gaurav@wintoolzone.com] — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:45:00 GMT

Scott Guthrie has an excellent example of how to do real-world paging of data records pulled from the DB, using a new feature of SQL Server 2005.

Must read.

TechED 2005 India: Bangalore is on tomorrow...

Gaurav Khanna — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:41:00 GMT

Tomorrow is the D-day: we kick off the 5-city TechED 2005 India at Bangalore. And I just finished my final deck on Advanced Embedded VC++. Plus, I just added another demo to the Bluetooth session I have on Day 1 in the Mobile and Embedded Devices track - MED301: Building Bluetooth Applications with WinCE 5.0/Windows Mobile. I was just calculating how many sessions I would be doing at TechED 2005 India (all included) and below are some of the stats I came up with:

30 breakout sessions (6 per city x 5 cities); 37.5 hours of speaking time (75 mins each)
5 Deep dive (1 per city x 5 cities); 3.75 hours of speaking time (45 mins each)
5 Hands-on Labs (1 per city x 5 cities); 10 hours of speaking time (2 hours each)
31 demos in breakout sessions per city
5-7 demos in Hands-on labs per city

Total speaking time: 51.25 hours!

Its a little over 6pm on a Saturday...

Gaurav Khanna — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:42:00 GMT

.. and now I find time to do something I like doing a lot - exploring the technology.

VS 2005 Beta 1 [build 40607.16] was already on my laptop and my attempt to install SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 RC 1[ build 9.00.0852] gave me an error - that I have an incompatible CLR version. Couple of checks and am in the process of installing it... Ofcourse, VS has been uninstalled and for now, SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 [RC1] are coexisting just fine.

BTW, the distributed application designer in VS 2005 [part of WhiteHorse designers] is really cool. And yes, the designers are much better and advanced that those that were in Visio. You can actually map your application architecture [diagrammatically] on to your server deployment architecture and verify whether the application deployment is going to be successful or not..!!!

On 23rd July 2004, I would be speaking on this at Bangalore .NET User's Group meeting. Earlier on the same day, at 2:30pm, I am talking on What's been enhanced in VS 2005/CLR 2.0 at the upcoming MSDN Session, for which you can register here...

Coming to TechED 2004 India :) ?