The good news: It looks like Microsoft is finally going to release Service Pack 3 for SQl 2005. The bad news: It won't be until Q4 of 2008, after the release of SQL 2008. Aaron Bertrand on SQLBlogs talks more about it here.
This is something that was a long time coming. Microsoft has something like 7 cumulative hot fixes. Some of the things on that list are things I want to start testing. One patch is for a problem I see on occasion, where our production servers kick out a SQL dump on a non-yielding process. This was addressed in SP2, which we're running, but not fully. I've seen other blogs that referenced a fix in one of the patches.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Taking 70-441 in 3 1/2 weeks
Hopefully I'll have enough time to study, especially since I'm on vacation for the 2 weeks previous to that.
I've read the MS Press training kit for this exam, and I've already passed 70-431 last summer. I know that won't be enough to pass this one, bit at least i've got a starting point for my studying. I also watched 4 webcasts that the Microsoft Partner program had on last year; I'll re-watch those. Too bad they're not downloadable. They'd be perfect for my daily commute.
But I can't complain about those webcasts. I got a voucher to take the exam for free!. The only thing was that it expires on May 1st, hence the quickly approaching date.
I've read the MS Press training kit for this exam, and I've already passed 70-431 last summer. I know that won't be enough to pass this one, bit at least i've got a starting point for my studying. I also watched 4 webcasts that the Microsoft Partner program had on last year; I'll re-watch those. Too bad they're not downloadable. They'd be perfect for my daily commute.
But I can't complain about those webcasts. I got a voucher to take the exam for free!. The only thing was that it expires on May 1st, hence the quickly approaching date.
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