Windows Server 2008

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Many programs produce logs as plain text files. Sometimes these log files need to be imported into SQL Server to allow further analysis of the data. In this video Scott Golightly shows how to use SQL Server Integration Services to import text files into SQL Server

Managing hierarchies in Information Systems has long been a challenge to most information systems professionals. The issues are simple, but the implementation of hierarchies within databases is complex and often onerous. The HierarchyID datatype introduced in SQL Server 2008 provides a new way to deal with these types of issues. In this video, Max Adams will introduce this new HierarchyID Datatype and examine how to:
-Create tables that implement this datatype
-Populate the table with data using CTE
-Query the table using some of the inherent functions available for the HierarchyID Datatype

In part 2 of this series Jeremy Chapman, Senior Product Manager of the Windows 7 deployment team, shows how he built out the migration environment using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 1.

In this interview Mark talks about his thoughts on User Account Control (UAC) and about technology in general.

The announcement of Windows XP mode caused a lot of excitement, in this screen cast we have a look at how it is setup up, what users see and get an idea of what it can do.