Thursday 4 January 2007

MSDN SQL Server Resources

As you might expect, these MSDN resources tend to have more of a developer flavour, but there is much for those that consider themselves DBAs including useful material not refered to in the Technet branded pages.

The MSDN Virtual Labs page here has links to many of the same labs on the Technet Virtual Labs page, but also some additional labs on upgrading (see foot of the page) that may be useful.

The MSDN SQL Server Developer Center can be found here.

UK MSDN pre-recorded SQL Server webcasts can be found here and includes a lot of very useful "nuggets" that are only about 10 minutes in duration. US MSDN SQL Webcasts can be found here.

Finally there are quite a lot of pre-recorded webcasts from the MS TechEd 2006 event
here. Use the product filter to easily find the SQL webcasts.

Phew!