Tony Bain

Rocksolid

Rocksolid is a revolutionary product for managing large, complex and mission critical SQL Server environments.  A blog has been launched to keep customers, and interested parties up to date.

http://www.rocksolidsql.net/

Red Rock SQL Services achieves Microsoft Gold Certification

Today the Red Rock SQL Services division achived the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status.  Well done and thanks to all the team who deleivered the projects and earned the qualifications to make this possible.

WinFS to integrated with SQL Server

WinFS which was orginally to be a component of the Windows Operating system (originally Vista, then Vista Server...) , then was to be a stand alone update to the OS, is now reported to now no longer be a stand alone component but instead a feature of the next version of SQL Server:

Other technical work in the WinFS project is at a similar point specifically the integration of unstructured data into the relational database, and automation innovations that make the database "just work" with no DBAs “ "richer store" work.  It's these storage innovations that have matured to the point where we are ready to start working on including them in our broader database product.  We are choosing now to take the unstructured data support and auto-admin work and deliver it in the next release of MS SQL Server, codenamed Katmai (more)