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Wow!  No, no, WOW!  The Messenger Series from Cornell brings Feynman back from the dead.  Here is Dr. Feynman lecturing on the nature of physical law. Microsoft has put together a respectful and interesting series of lectures by Richard Feynman called Project Tuva, apparently Dr

What’s going on with my Windows 7 blog series, you might be wondering?  Well, I am still working on it, in fact I’ve broadened the scope of my studies to include ALL AREAS of Windows 7 development (in preparation for my upcoming trip and talks in South Africa).  I do plan to publish quite a few more posts in the series over the next couple of weeks. Lest you think I am all work and no play, I’ll have to admit that I’ve been combining work and socializing too.  Below is a sampling of recent good times… Geek BBQ in Venice Swanky party in Hollywood Beach party with the Laguna Girls (I took the picture, so I am not in this one!) Birthday celebration with the cool girls Hanging with the hipsters downtown LA Oh and there’s more to come – this week I’ve got four more tech social events to go to.  Life is good

There will be more details over the coming months on what’s coming in Office 2010, and the power it brings to developers. I’m particularly excited to start talking about the ways in which you can combine the power of the rich clients with server side technologies to build solutions that no longer just target a specific individual using a specific application, but instead expand out to the workgroup, and all the content they are leveraging to accomplish their goals.

Nawal Kishore Gupta here. I am a developer on the Information Security Tools team focused on building host security assessment tools.

One of the biggest puzles of inconsistency is keeping a page that using Lookup column uptodate to all the changes that happened to underlying list. Image you have a web page in a Documents library.

Sanjay Mishra just published the following White Paper, ” Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices “, highly recommended and much anticipated. On this same topic, I received a question from a colleague the other day, asking what the impact of data compression on memory was.  The assumptions I had were as follows: Page or Row compression allows for more data to fit in memory (compressed page on disk matches compressed page in the buffer cache) When the data is read from memory for use in a query – it is uncompressed during that time A little unsure of the specifics, I still wanted confirmation on these assumptions, so thank you to Sunil Agarwal for confirming that this was correct.  Compressed data does reside in the buffer pool in a compressed form (which you can test in a before/after data compression using sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors), but when compressed data is referenced, it is uncompressed as needed.  Sanjay’s paper also discusses this topic in more detail in the “Application Workload” section.

A series of questions related to start time, duration, end time, T-SQL waitfor delay command and others crossed my path again this week.     As I was trying to explain it to a fellow engineer and I realized it has become a bit complicated.