Monday, April 7, 2008

VSTS 2008 VPC Image - Expires on December 31, 2008

As you probably notice, the VSTS 2008 VPC Image expired on April 1st. Microsoft has published a newer version with many enhancements including an updated Hands On Lab.

You can download it here.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c7a809d8-8c9f-439f-8147-948bc6957812&displaylang=en

SQL Server Training Videos

The series features 13 professional videos that start at the very beginning and then explore designing tables/schemas, using data types, creating SPROCs, using reporting services and the business intelligence engine, enabling full text search across your data, and more (I'm guessing even most devs with a lot of data experience might learn some new things from the reporting services and full text search videos):

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/03/01/free-sql-server-training-videos-and-other-good-data-tutorial-pointers.aspx