As a part of its Dream Spark program Microsoft is giving away VS 2008, SQL Server 2005, Windows 2003 & Expression Studio for free. The terms & conditions include you should have a valid windows live id(if not you can get a one) & Microsoft has some checks to confirm that you are a student and you should pass those checks. You can very well download them here.
First of all thanks for all the visitors who have been patiently visiting my pages even though they have not been update for a while. Things were really hectic all these days. But the real reason would be obviously my lazyness and my learning curve has gone negative now a days :(.. Any have I need to kick off my learning curve hopefully will keep this blog updated.
Atlast the long awaited SP3 has been released. It was in CTP for a while and now it has been released to public. It can be downloaded from the following link. Click here to download
Recently attended the SQL Fest conference it was nice to share the thoughts with the sql development team. They have promised that they will try to conduct this event atleast once in a 6 months. They have also extended the venues from Hyd, Bangalore to Chennai and Delhi. You can get details about this at sqlcommunity.com or sqlfest.com
