If you want to learn all about SQL Server 2005 and what new features are playing a vital role in making SQL Server an industry choice try "A First Look at Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for Developers". A well written book by industry top notch professionals with their years of experience. This book is a result of long research so if you want to grasp the ins and out you must read it. 

Some of the topics covered in the book are SQL Server 2005 new data model, host for .net runtime and web services, improved security and performance and, especially the addition of the new XML data type and many more.

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Check out this book on Amazon

Cheers,

~Danish Sami

We are building up a new web site for the user group and for publishing up the weblogs. This new website will be our new communication point for all of our meetings, resources, events and many other things. We are really expecting a huge amount of interest, please be with us and check on regular basis for the website launch date.
Cheers,~Danish Sami

Keep an eye on one of our upcoming events where you will meet interesting professionals like yourself.
Topic, Date and Location will be announced soon

I look forward to meeting you on that upcoming event.

Cheers,
~Danish Sami

Oh my God! it was totally a hack for me to find out why my Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise Architect was not bothering me, i mean was not loading.

It was my PC everything was loaded successfully after running a fresh WinXp installation, and after having installed the VS.Net 2003 I was banging my head to wall, getting a strange message "Dte.olb could not be loaded, please re-run setup and repair your installation". I tried every thing to solve this mystery but my whole day was gone.

The very next day I search through my hard disk and I found it lying under the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSEnv” folder. I tried on MSDN and found that Dte.olb is the COM object model for EnvDTE namespace and if not installed properly VS.Net never worked.

So registering Dte.olb using regsvr32 will solve the problem, one thing to keep in mind that regsvr32 might not recognize long file names so its better to run regsvr32 directly from the folder where Dte.olb resides.

Cheers,
~Danish Sami

JDBC driver (Beta 1) for SQL Server 2000 and 2005 was released by Microsoft. Now connecting to your SQL Server from your Java applications and applets is easier then before.

At Microsoft we are waiting for you to provide your valuable feedback by participating the Beta 1 release of this Type 4 JDBC driver for universal connectivity to SQL Server 2005.

Register and download the SQL Server 2005 JDBC Beta 1 driver from sqlserver website.

Related link:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2005/jdbceula.mspx

Cheers,
~Danish Sami