What is a sparse column and when do I need one? This blog will bring you up to speed.

Falafel is partnering with Microsoft to offer this free half day seminar at the beautiful Saint Claire hotel in downtown San Jose, CA to celebrate the release of Visual Studio 2008, LINQ, WPF, WCF, WF and other exciting technologies.

Please join us on December 10th from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Register on the Microsoft event site ASAP as space is limited. Charlie Calvert, the C# Community Project Manager will be there to talk about LINQ and Lino Tadros will present the usefulness of the new technologies. Hope to see you there!

Congrats to the VS Team at Microsoft.  The Visual Studio 2008 bits are being uploaded to the MSDN as I am writing this blog.

Good luck getting it downloaded today or tomorrow, You might as well use Pigeons to transfer the bits from the MSDN

Cheers

Read about the problems I encountered and the final solution I arrived at. Source code inside.

We will be in Las Vegas between Nov 5th and 8th exhibiting at booth # 832. Please stop by and say hello, we have a cool T-Shirt for you and some other goodies! We will be demonstrating our Project Productivity Management Solutions "ActiveFocus 2007" and we will also be showing a sneak peek at ActiveFocus 2008 due at the end of this year. If you can't find us in the booth, look in the Rum Bar at Mandalay Bay or the Craps table near by

Lino Tadros and John Waters had the honor to speak at this year's annual Microsoft DevReach conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. The talks were on Linq, Silverlight and AJAX.

Inside, I'll discuss a common SQL query pattern and a simple change that can increase query performance by a factor of two or more.