However, it's far beyond the capabilies of Microsoft alone to make that happen as you would be asking phone manufacturers to give away commercial advantages ... and this is before they can even trust each other. With the number of lawsuits between them at the moment, this is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

But make a witty YouTube Video about it, get 5 million hits like lost luggage and you can apparent get large companies to do anything!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11450923

Cool Smart Phone broke the story btw

To say I'm stoked-up about SQL10 is an understatement! Bring it on!!! 

Anyway, I'll just have to email my friends instead .... or phone them .... so old tech!

Actually, I hate facebook really, it feels like a backward step to me, does anyone else feel the same?

jamie said:

Sabot said:

*snip*

i liked the begining... and the end part

 ..needs work in the middle

 

welcome back sabot!!!! 

 

 

 

...but...seriously...

<Man Hungs>Thanks dudes! 

It's good to be back!

I've gone through some big changes in my personal life and the projects I've been working on have been business related. All this has swung me away from tech ... now I'm swinging back as I love technology and Microsoft is cutting edge as always!

So what have a found out in the last 18 months?

Well Apple and Twitter aren't doing technology any real good. It's all abit too dumbed down. Too much control is given away, we are mainlining unfiltered celeb driven media and lock-in reigns. I really don't like it! These trends have gone too far. It's high time to redress the balance.

Now I don't give a monkeys about phones! ... or web GUI technologies. For me, it's all about Data. Whether in a database, in the Cloud, ETL'ed, WS-I'ed, RESTed or ESB'ed .... it's all about the data baby and always will be! Now I'm working a project that will give my company it's first SQL Server FastTrack system! Stuff the iPhone, this is great tech!!!! It's my thing and I love it! Love it ! Love it!

So cheer up people, the tech recovery starts here!

As for my friends in Microsoft. Windows and Office cash-cows are over. Lack of confidence and too much control will cripple Microsoft. It's not about the man in the street, they are too fickle to bet on, go after business their needs are more predictable and once again create an environment where innovaton rules supreme, 'so much more still to invent' such be the mantra.

As for Open Source, well may as well fully embrace it. It's a battle of hearts and minds out there and it will make it easy to like Microsoft once again which is just half the battle. May as well give it away and charge for support than make no sales at all. But trust me, only a handful will look at the code, people will still buy the shinny box ... they can't help it, most people just aren't techies, this is what Linux didn't counter and why it never took off.

I only do FB, because my friends are on there but it sucks bad. I wish I could say so much more on it but I know if I do someone will read it and parcel it up with a pretty bow and sell it. I did an experiment on FB, I bought a pay as you go phone and published the number in a status update ... it was 4 hours before I got a cold call on that new number! So say nothing on FB just say Hi and what pub to meet them at. There is no trusting FB.

Anyway nice to be back .... lets crack on !!!!!!! .... we have some stunning tech to think of .....

Yep, it's been awhile since I was on here. Other stuff going on in my life has been taking priority but it's all going to settle down now and I have a bit more time to concentrate on the tech matters of the day .... so did you miss me?

Anyhoo, I have a multi TB database monster that is looking for a home. So one of the great things about the Cloud is that you don't have to host stuff yourself you effectively rent it fom someone else so you don't have to come up with the mega-money to  build a farm that will handle this kind of monster. So why oh why is there a 50GB limit on SQL databases? ... this is sooooo small!

So please, please, please Microsoft can we up the limit on SQL Azure so I can give my monsters a new home!

One said that the pre-sales teams will get their hands on them next month and then can start taking them out to customers, so I will hopefully get to play with one ... just as well I have a mobility project where this product would be ideal.

The first question is .... how much budget can you cost justify? Remember the only rules in big system design are time/money/rules of physics/justification

The next questions are .... what are the non-functional requirements, what is the service level then what should the system do?

Now you can design your system.

... and now I'm going to help you cheat .... speak to these guys! SQLCAT .... 50k users is nothing, they've helped design Microsoft.com, Bing.com and MySpace.com all with just afew more users every minute!

Ian2 said:

Had friends round last night so couldn't watch it.  About to sit down with the kids and watch ....

I was out at wedding lastnight, so had one too many beerios however, it's on the SkyHD planner ready for tonight!

On Twitter this morning some of the comments I read were ... better than RTD! (Thank Gud!).... bow-tie = bad .... music was poor .... not sure about the new Tardis makeover.

I think people are developers on a step to somewhere, it's not a destinaton like it used to be. Why? Well I think that coding has lost it's cool.

I love being a Architect but I'm crossing ove to the darkside and entering management ... but I'm still coming here. Being a good *whatever* in tech means that you need to see things from other points of view.

Channel9 hardly ever takes very long to load at all but it's either fast or just never loads. Now I can't put the not loading down to C9 as there is 16 hopes between me and Microsoft ... and MS sites aren't the only ones that have this problem.

I think with any forum the real 'wheat' is left behind ... the chaff comes and goes.

On a more serious note, social networking has shown that different types of Web communication comes in waves. People like to be involved in the next big thing to get a bit of reflection 'yeah I'm cool, I use Google Buzz' for example. But the people that constantly use more established types such as Forums, for example, do so because they are getting something more out of it that is greater than trying to be cool.

I lurk here because this is a place where trusted, inteligent people I know and respect leave their opinions on the latest developments in all things web. Well doh .... people pay good money for this kind of thing!

I think to continue to make C9 great we concentrate on this strength bring news here and comment on it .... so carry on challenging us you miserable old Canadian ... I put it down to the weather!

I have an iPhone 3G and I love buying software for £0.59p from the AppStore.

The UI is slick and a joy to use.

Cons ....

But I'm sick of the dependency on rubbish iTunes and I would like to leave the walled garden of Apple and have some more choice and control.

I hate that I can't organise the icons to anything other than moving them around from page to page.

The iPhone is a sexy good looking phone but it is becoming to look dated. The 3GS was just a stop gap to buy time but we aren't going to see a new iPhone this year.

CannotResolveSymbol said:

Sabot said:

*snip*

A "minor grumble" (that Microsoft and the manufacturers treat tablet/slate computing just like any other PC, and don't provide any kind of optimized experience for them) has kept tablet computing from going mainstream.  Hardly sounds "minor" to me.

What are you talking about !?

Apple needed to have an answer for Netbooks to prevent people from escaping from Apple-world but they needed a USP so they've turned a minor grumble into a problem to make that edge.

CannotResolveSymbol said:

AndyC said:

*snip*

But there are already iPhone apps for that sort of thing, and they will no doubt get even better as they're updated for the iPad itself.  Apple's very much taking the "build it and they will come" approach here...  the proliferation of iPhone apps shows that this is plausible.

Apple is looking for a device to lock-in the book readers now. It's a multi-billion dollar business. Apple's got the music market at it's knees and is still working on the film/tv market with the AppleTV.

But this device is a step too far because it is less than what people expected. A badly named big ol' iPhone doesn't win any prizes.

*** Please Note: This iPad video is a little in poor taste so please don't watch if you are offended by material on subjects that below the beltline ***

Another thing Sarah Blow pointed out today is that the iPad has no handwritting recognition software ... abit odd for a pad?

ManipUni said:

Asking to sort a DataView is just asking the wrong question...

The question you should be asking is how do you sort a DataSet. Since the DataView is just a visual representation of whatever you have in your DataSet.

 

If you are putting the data into the DataSet using SQL then obviously the easiest way would be to use an "order by." The DataView's sort events are just generic events for YOU to handle. You have to re-read the data, re-sort, and output a new DataView.

 

PS - I actually have no idea what I'm talking about.

Manip is right, it is easier to sort the data before it gets into a dataset and even better if the SQL is in a stored proc or view so the SQL optimiser can make a query plan.

P.S. I do have an idea cos databases are my thing.

... and just to add some value ... these guys are the ones to read if you want to know about how to optimise queries

http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlqueryprocessing/default.aspx

Maddus Mattus said:

I would use a table valued function, that string splits the parameter.

 

where field1 in (splitthis(@param1))

Here you go ! A nice easy tutorial from Microsoft ... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345415.aspx

Maddus Mattus said:

ploe said:

*snip*

You need to make a cursor and evaluate on a row basis, I dont think it's possible to write this in one query.

How about using the BETWEEN operator ...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187922.aspx

?

W3bbo said:

klop670 said:

*snip*

Because online petitions have ever elicitted a major corporation (who works for its shareholders, not its customers) since when...?

Petitions work!

Those 22,000 would most likely part with $40 for a new game, that's $880,000 ... and if that 22,000 was deemed to be representative of a cross section of the majority of the buying public so meaning the possibility of more sales then shareholders would want the opportunity fully investigated.

Lets be honest here .... it is a cert that Freelancer 2 is going to sell more copies than Afro Samuri or Bullet Witch but it has to appear large enough on MS's radar ... and for that to happen we are going to need 100,000 signatures.

exoteric said:

Sabot said:

*snip*

I think you may be underestimating this.

On the other hand it's far too soon to say much at this point. As for using Google services, I've always been a fan and never fathomed the scare factor of having targetted advertisements with emails. If anything, then the whole notion of hosted data should be considered evil, not the idea of mechanically targetted advertisements. Nonsense.

Now that said, Microsoft has been dragging me their way with Mesh, SkyDrive and Live services. It still doesn't feel quite as integrated as it could be - in particular Mesh and SkyDrive, but it's quite nice as it is. One thing that might be very nice is a zero-cost "common" file storage - using hashes to "socialize" storage costs for many files - which might actually be what is done already, given that SkyDrive has a generous 25 GB free space.

As for the browser. Well it is an intriguing idea, but what is perhaps most intriguing is the way it must lead to a more aggressive investment into browser infrastructure (WebKit, V8, ...) and maybe new proposals for recommendations - maybe cleaner architechtures and APIs. We'll see.

I hear the message, I get the significance, I'm still saying, 'so what?'

Google dances around the edge of useful.

They just make a whole bunch of tools, how many are unique? how many of them are the best? how many would you actually use if you had to pay for them?

... we let Google off allot because stuff is 'free' ... when search advertising is really paying for it. Google leverage their finances they make by this method to make 'good enough' products place them in markets to weaken other organisations revenue streams because they know 'free' is a great price.

But I don't want to see innovation like this!

I want to see Google work more with other organisation (like Oracle, IBM and Microsoft) and build ontop of existing products enchancing them.

How so?

Our lifes are made up of data, much of it is duplicated and out of date because we make copies of it at points in time.

Google is uniquely placed to link the definitive sources of data to everyone who needs to use it, Google could help us find what we are looking for and deliver it in a uniformed way, which we pay them for.

Google could be the kick-arse search UDDI of the web, but no, they want to play 'we can make stuff better than you' games.

Can you see my frustration?

The Internet is big and companies like Google continue to think small ... and they have the assets at their fingers tips to really make a difference.

My message to Google is simple .... THINK BIGGER, THINK BEYOND I.T.