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Rate the New DevCenter Page Design
Rate the New DevCenter Page Design
Tell us what you like and don't like about the new design for the Integration Services page. We plan to use this design for other component and technology pages in SQL Server 2008, but your feedback is vital. Use the Rating and Feedback control on the top right-corner of the page to let us know your thoughts about this design.
Tuesday, Nov 4
MSXML 4.0 SP3 Beta now available
MSXML 4.0 SP3 Beta now available
Service Pack 3 (SP3) is a complete replacement of previous service packs and includes a number of security and reliability fixes as well as a more robust setup package. We want to know what you think. Please run your existing application against MSXML 4.0 SP3 Beta to ensure the new service pack is compatible with your application with no behavior change.
Monday, Dec 1
Watch New Videos from the SQL Server Documentation Team
Watch New Videos from the SQL Server Documentation Team
Use SQL Server videos to learn about the product and component technologies, see how to do various tasks, and discover related help topics that help you expand your knowledge of SQL Server.
Wednesday, Oct 15

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) enables SQL Server 2005 customers to take advantage of the enhancements within Windows Vista and the 2007 Office system.

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Ward Pond's TechEd Developers 2008 Resource Page
Presentations and samples from Ward Pond's presentations at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008. Includ... more
Friday, Nov 21 by MSDN Code Gallery
Coder
建设中。。。
Friday, Sep 26 by MSDN Code Gallery
Mapping Inheritance trees using Entity Framework
Microsoft's Entity Data Model allows us to define an application-oriented view of our data consi... more
Sunday, Sep 14 by MSDN Code Gallery
.NET Application Modeling Language (nAML) Specification and Tools
nAML (.NET Application Modeling Language, pronounced as “namel”) is a visual mod... more
Thursday, Sep 11 by MSDN Code Gallery
SQL Server 2000 Sample Databases
The old sample databases which were published for SQL Server 2000 (Shiloh). These databases... more
Tuesday, Aug 12 by MSDN Code Gallery
SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5
Samples for SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5
Tuesday, Aug 12 by MSDN Code Gallery

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Recent SQL Server Projects from CodePlexRSS

DB Script Runner
Utility to run multiple scripts in a specified order against a database. It's developed in VB.n... more
Sunday, Nov 30 by CodePlex
SQL Fault Retry Provider
The Fault Retry sample demonstrates recommended practices for creating high availability database ap... more
Monday, Nov 17 by CodePlex
Enterprise Policy Management Framework
The Enterprise Policy Management Framework is a reporting solution on the state of the enterprise ag... more
Saturday, Nov 15 by CodePlex
SQL Compact data and schema export utility
This command line utility helps you better manage your SQL Compact development efforts. If allows yo... more
Thursday, Nov 13 by CodePlex
SQL Rover
SQL Rover will recursively search through a directory, generally your IIS log directory, and look in... more
Sunday, Nov 9 by CodePlex
LWB-DOTNET
This project contains ASP.NET Ajax support for the AJAX-Lightweight Binder.
Tuesday, Nov 4 by CodePlex

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