With any new tool comes new ways to work ... And I see editing the table's data from the EM was something not a great thing. More often than not...

Interesting Chris ... I have to download it again I think. hmmm ... this integration is important to me as I like playing with the CLR objects ... Let me...

Even though I dont deny Chris comments on the Beta product's stability. I've been having SQL Server 2000 and the 2005 instances on the same machine without any problems till...

Did you get a chance to see the Feb CTP build. We have a Reports Builder that allows you to do some decent ad-hoc reporting. With Active View's also integrated...

Is this on SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2000?

If on SQL Server 2000 then this is the wrong forum. But still you can see the BOL for a section...

Strange but I have had no problems having both the editions on the same drive ... I've recently installed the Feb CTP and it works for me like a gem.

Vinod...

Thanks Sameer. Nice to see you liked the article.

Others, your comments are welcome.

Vinod Kumar

Is this when you used Yukon?

Vinod Kumar

I dont understand your question clearly I suppose. Generally when we talk about blobs in SQL, its a 2GB limitation. And if you are mentioning this, then nothing much has...

I did a quick work for this and found you can indeed call the DTS 2000 packages from SQL 2005 DTS using the "Execute DTS 2000 Package Task Editor". The...

It works like gem for me till date

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Firstly, this is a wrong group. I thought you were talking about SQL2005. Anyways, BLOB's in Oracle map to SQL Server's TEXT,NTEXT or VARBINARY...

I dont have expereince in doing this. but from what I saw of the SQL Server 2005 DTS package you will not be able to map one-to-one of these packages....

Hi Carl,

The trace flag is not a requirement now. BTW, what transaction Isolation mode are you working on? It seems to work for me flawlessly with the database compatibility level...

>> Any word on when Beta 3 will be out?

Somewhere end of this year.

Vinod Kumar