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    Tuesday, October 31, 2006

    iTunes 7 vs. Mediaplayer 11

    During the dry-runs of my biTunes presentation people often asked me why iTunes? iTunes happened to be the MP3 player I used on Mac and Windows. So I answered: "It doesn't matter, it's just an MP3 player and it's very similar to Media Player, Winamp or other players".

    Today, Microsoft released Windows Mediaplayer 11. I decided to give it a try, and found out there are indeed some similarities. Have a look at the screenshots below or this little movie comparing both.






    So again, why iTunes? Well biTunes sounds better than biMediaPlayer ;-) See you next week!

    Wednesday, October 11, 2006

    Por Dentro SQL

    At last .... Peter - the president of SQLUG.BE - started his blog. His first post is an interesting one on clustering Integration Services.

    Success with your blog, Peter !!!

    His blog can be found on the following URL:
    http://sqlug.be/blogs/por_dentro_sql/

    Other interesting blogs on SQLUG.BE are Geoffrey blog called DrivenBySQL and the SQLUG.BE Resource Blog.

    Wednesday, October 04, 2006

    MSDN Evening - Introducing Data Dude

    There is an interesting MSDN evening comming up. Gunther Beersaerts, Senior Technical Specialist @ Microsoft will talk about Data Dude.

    November 15, 2006: Introducing Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

    Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals is a database development product designed to manage database change and improve software quality through database testing. Additionally this product brings the benefits of Visual Studio Team System and life cycle development to the database professional. During this session you'll get an overview of this product, including the integration with source code control, the schema and data compare functionalities, rename refactoring, the new T-SQL editor and database testing.

    Full Details are on http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/events/2006/20061115_vstsdb.mspx.