Thursday, August 25, 2005 - Posts

Tablet or not?

At WinHEC I met some people on the Tablet PC Team and I enquired about acquiring Tablet PC’s without the Windows XP Tablet Edition OS installed, because those of us with MSDN subscriptions already have it and with a discounted price more developers could afford a Tablet PC. I was told the cost of the OS was minimal and to forget about it.

So now Fujitsu has come out with a value priced Tablet, how did they keep the price as low as $1,499? It has Windows XP installed and not Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, so is it a Tablet PC or not?

NY SQL UG Meeting

NY Metro SQL Server Users Group Meeting Tonight

Traversing Hierarchies in SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005

This presentation will compare and contrast the techniques of using stored procedures, user-defined functions and the new Common Table Expression in SQL Server 2005 to traverse a hierarchy with an unknown number of levels. Participants will learn how to use these features and how to compare the performance and general usability of the different approaches.

Speaker: Sharon F. Dooley

Sharon has worked with SQL Server since its first release. Her major areas of specialization are database design and performance tuning, though she also does a lot of administration. She has a consulting practice and teaches and writes courses for Learning Tree International, where she is SQL Server Curriculum Manager. Ms. Dooley is the author of SQL Server 7.0 Essential Reference (New Riders), the lead author of Professional SQL Server 6.5 Administration (Wrox) and is a contributing author for the forthcoming SQL Server 2005 Bible. Sharon is an active member of PASS (The Professional Organization for SQL Server) and has presented at numerous conferences. She was named a Microsoft MVP in 2001 and was an MVP for SQL Server until 2004. In her spare time, she enjoys being bossed around by her three cats

If you want to attend please contact: Joe Lax or Linchi Shea, hope to see you there tonight!