A few months ago we started development on a new system. From the ground up we redesigned everything from our business processes to how we store data. Part of the redesign was deciding on using SOA technology in our middle tier. This will allow us to separate our UI from our middle tier even further. Due to the disconnected way our objects were going to work we decided to use guid or unique identifiers for our primary keys in our data model and assign guids in the middle tier. Of course, our DBAs weren't too keen on the idea and...
Microsoft is offering free SQL Server 2008 online courses. The offered titles are: What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Enterprise Data Platform What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Business Intelligence What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Database Development We've been keeping our ear pretty close to the ground on SQL Server 2008 so this may come in handy. But according to my boy Jason SQL Server 2008 is a minor release. The course is free nonetheless. Via Tim Mitchell.