Read about how to alter a column in a replicated table without breaking replication.

Yeah, I bought my new laptop this week after 2 years of using a great Dell Inspiron 9300.  The new XPS M1730 is very fast, very heavy and looks pretty.  With 4 Gig of RAM, 400 Gig of hard disk at 7200 RPM, Intel Core 2 extreme 2.8 GHZ each, 5 speakers, built in Video camera, Dual SLI GeForce Go 8700, Blu-Ray Disc, oh yeah one more thing VISTA ULTIMATE.  It was disappointing to buy the laptop from the Dell web site advertising that 4 Gig will make your Vista Scream, well I ended up the one screaming when I found out that Vista will never be able to see that last Gig of Ram and that the max a Vista machine can see is 3 Gig.  Really bad on both sides:
1- Dell, why do you advertise such a thing when you know it is not possible to do.
2- Microsoft! I have a hard time believing with all the advancement of technologies and the 200 new products you put out a month, that you are having a hard time making your flagship OS of the future see 4 Gig of RAM, that is ridiculous.

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