"Toad ™ for SQL Server Freeware is a tool that improves the productivity of developers and administrators by providing an easy-to-use development environment."

Three years ago I started working with Toad on Oracle Database and I liked it because of its versitality and wide number of options available, you name it and Toad has all. The bad part was that Toad was not free and I had to buy the copy (see how important it become for me that I had to purchased the license).

Now when I have seen that Toad is also available for SQL Server I was happy but i was so scared of buying another license,  surprisingly there is a Freeware version available. Why I am after this tool because I don't have to learn another tool for SQL Server, lots of functionality has been shared so its quite easier for me to work without spending extra time for learning.

I bet that once you started using Toad for SQL Server, you will have same comments.

Don't forget to drop comments if you think its worth.

Related link: http://toadsoft.com/get2knowSS/index.html

Bandagi!

This year again I have been awarded with the prestigious Most Valuable Professional - MVP Award for the year 2009.

I am honoured to received this recognition, it boost up my work towards the success of SQL Server.

Now i have to work again to retain this award for the next year.

I'll come with new working plans and will publish them as per the circumstances.

Bandagi!

To all community members - Launch Kits are on the way!

I haven't completed the launching schedule yet as I am waiting for the kits and once they are here I'll finalize and announce.

I am working hard to get it to you later this week.

Let's keep the fingers crossed.



Bandagi!

.NetFoundry has been welcomed to become as SQLPASS Dubai, UAE chapter.

Now .NetFoundry can work both with INETA and SQLPASS to build greater SQL Server Professional Community, being part of both organization means best of both worlds, more or less this is a great chance for the community to get support from product and content perspective.

I strongly recommend you to join the community, we are here to help you out whether you are developer or IT Pro working with SQL Server in any way either through development perspective or from administration and or infrastructure, come and share your ideas, problems, case studies and we will help you internally and if not possible then through Product Teams.

Let's fuel the technology with your ideas and creativity.

Bandagi!

There are 14 Technical and 3 Virtual Tracks at this Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 Developers, designed to help find the technical content best suited as per needs. A virtual track is a collection of technical content that spans several tracks, but has a common theme.

Across these 17 tracks explore the latest content with a choice of more than 300 Breakout and Interactive Sessions, a range of great Product Demos, Self Paced Hands-on Labs and more!

The tracks are designed as a navigational tool to help everyone to find the sessions and labs best suited to your needs

https://emea.msteched.com/dev/public/tracks.aspx

Wait for more great contents.

Bandagi!

Over 3,200 people came to Barcelona to be a part of Tech·Ed EMEA Developers - wow, wow, wow.

For your five days in Barcelona, there are opportunities to engage in hundreds of learning opportunities, whether it's meeting one-on-one or in small groups with Microsoft product team members, meeting Microsoft MVPs and latest solutions and technologies.

Key Speakers

Jason Zander - General Manager Visual Studio Team, Developer Division, Microsoft Corporation. He s one of the person at Microsoft whom I want to see action and fortunately he delivered the KeyNote. In his KeyNote he speaks about Visual Studio 2010, the next release of the market leading Visual Studio toolset. This release delivers advances through the following focus areas: riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM). In his keynote, Jason talks about what the team is doing as the leader of the Visual Studio division at Microsoft to make a developer’s job easier with this release and provide extensive examples with Visual Studio 2010 demonstrations.

Pat Helland
Partner Architect, .NET Development Platform, Microsoft. I really enjoyed listening up the KeyNote from Pat, great enthusiasm, passion and convincing style. Pat started with the background of  Data centers, where they have consumed 1.5% of the total electricity in the US in 2006 and are on track to double as a percentage every five years.  It is about 2% of the US total in 2008.  Western Europe’s use is increasing at a slightly faster rate (from a slightly lower base percentage).  The consumption of electricity within data centers is of significant financial and environmental importance.

    * Where the heck is all this power going?
    * Why is the electrical load increasing so much?
    * What can be done about it?

This talk will examine both traditional and emerging data center designs.  We will start by examining how a data center is laid out, constructed, and managed.  We will show two emerging trends:  the change to designing data centers for the optimization of power and the emergence of new economies of scale in data centers which is contributing to the drive towards cloud computing.  Microsoft is actively moving to compete in the space of cloud computing as we are seeing at the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) a few weeks before Tech·Ed EMEA Developer.

Next, we will examine the sources of waste in the system today and examine why so many of our resources are underutilized.  Because we are reluctant to share computing resources, they are left idle much of the time.  Why is this currently the dominant choice?  What can be done in the design of applications, systems, and data centers to make them more green (both carbon and cash)?  What can developers do to make a difference?

Moving further there are amazing and stunning Developer Tracks that I will write in a different post.


Bandagi!

 

Ever running on low memory wont mean you can't run Internet Explorer, "Start without Add-ons" will give help you in running Internet Explorer but it comes with a price?

If you run without add-ons options Internet Explorer will skip all the add-ons while loading in memory.

Try on and feel the difference.

Bandagi!