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There are some skills that developers should have for the next 5 years so that they can continue to do a good work and be on the front line. This are dificult times and you have to be diferent and make sure that you are on the top to have a good professional live.

Here is a very interesting article about 10 skills developers will need in the next 5 years.

Have a look here.

Formação GRATUITA para estudantes interessados em ingressar em estágio ou em posições nos parceiros da Microsoft.

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Good 490 pages whitepaper on how to upgrade to SQL Server 2008. It’s title is “SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide”.

You can download it ´here.

You can see the chapters here:

• Chapter 1 (Pages 17-68)

Overview of technical issues and decisions involved in upgrading to SQL Server 2008, as well as recommendations for planning and deploying an upgrade.

• Chapter 2 (Pages 69-90)

Addresses issues related to upgrading to SQL Server 2008 Management Tools.

• Chapters 3-8 (Pages 92-243)

Upgrade issues for SQL Server relational databases.

Chapter 3: Relational Databases (Pages 92-117)
Chapter 4: High Availability (Pages 118-181)
Chapter 5: Security (Pages 182-198)
Chapter 6: Full-Text Search (Pages 199-210)
Chapter 7: Service Broker (Pages 211-216)
Chapter 8: Transact-SQL Queries (Pages 217-243)
Chapter 9: Notification Services (Pages 244-251)

• Chapter 10 (Pages 252-270)

Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 Express

• Chapters 11-14

Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence components: Analysis Services, Data Mining, Integration Services, and Reporting Services.

Chapter 11: Analysis Services (Pages 271-302)
Chapter 12: Data Mining (Pages 303-329)
Chapter 13: Analysis Services (Pages 330-420)
Chapter 14: Reporting Services (Pages 421-468)

• Chapter 15 (Pages 469-477)

Implications of upgrading to SQL Server 2008 for other Microsoft applications and platforms.

• Appendix 1

Detailed table of allowed SQL Server 2008 version and edition upgrade paths.

• Appendix 2

Upgrade planning checklist.

I challenge you to read this good interview to Dave Campbell (Leader of the technical strategy and architecture team for SQL Services) done by Mary Jo Foley. Dave talks about what he does at Microsoft, what they will do and he also talks about DaaS.

You can read the full interview here.

Want to see how was Microsoft & LG & Samsung booth at CES? Your lucky because our friend from Engadget were kind enough to show us :)

Microsoft booth tour

Samsung booth tour

LG booth tour