Hilary and Paul : SQL 2005 Book and Materials

I considered the idea, but have decided to produce a few
articles on the main changes that I'm interested in
instead - merge over the internet and peer-to-peer
transactional. Hilary's the man for books, and he'll be
able to update you about his plans.
BTW to be honest as MVPs we don't have much of an
advantage over anyone else in this regard - we still have
to do the research, trial and error, digging through
system stored procedures etc, although some changes we
hear about a little earlier. I know Kalen was able to
interview PMs for the various groups but that was
exceptional and we don't really have such access. If this
is something you're interested in - ie close contact with
the developers - then now is the time we can all do it.
Have a good look at the Beta2 and try to figure the
replication features out, then post your questions in the
Beta2 newsgroups
(http://communities.microsoft.com/new...s/default.asp?
icp=sqlserver2005&slcid=us). I have used these and the
Yukon ones, and the questions are answered by the actual
TSQL code developers - the people we don't usually see on
the public newsgroups, so this is pretty valuable stuff.
Regards,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
Paul is right. Please post your comments about SQL server 2005 betas. We
will be delighted to have your feedback.
thanks - Deepak
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"Paul Ibison" <Paul.Ibison@.Pygmalion.Com> wrote in message
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> I considered the idea, but have decided to produce a few
> articles on the main changes that I'm interested in
> instead - merge over the internet and peer-to-peer
> transactional. Hilary's the man for books, and he'll be
> able to update you about his plans.
> BTW to be honest as MVPs we don't have much of an
> advantage over anyone else in this regard - we still have
> to do the research, trial and error, digging through
> system stored procedures etc, although some changes we
> hear about a little earlier. I know Kalen was able to
> interview PMs for the various groups but that was
> exceptional and we don't really have such access. If this
> is something you're interested in - ie close contact with
> the developers - then now is the time we can all do it.
> Have a good look at the Beta2 and try to figure the
> replication features out, then post your questions in the
> Beta2 newsgroups
> (http://communities.microsoft.com/new...s/default.asp?
> icp=sqlserver2005&slcid=us). I have used these and the
> Yukon ones, and the questions are answered by the actual
> TSQL code developers - the people we don't usually see on
> the public newsgroups, so this is pretty valuable stuff.
> Regards,
> Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
> (recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
>