New Server for Yukon and W2K3

Dear All,
We are looking for new server acting as our main DC as
well as SQL Server 2K. In the future, maybe year or two
later, we'll upgrade to W2K3 and Yukon. Do you have any
spec info for Yukon? I could find nothing on MSDN.com.
or Do you have any recommendation for this new server? We
are going to pick up one from Dell.
Thanks for your help!!
HarrisonThere is some information for Yukon on http://www.microsoft.com/sql/
For a server, you need to tell us what it is used for, how many users, how
many databases, database size etc to be able to give you a rough idea of
what you need.
Cheers
--
Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Epprecht Consulting (PTY) LTD
Johannesburg, South Africa
Mobile: +27-82-552-0268
IM: mike@.NOSPAMepprecht.net
Specialist SQL Server Solutions and Consulting
"Harrison" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Dear All,
> We are looking for new server acting as our main DC as
> well as SQL Server 2K. In the future, maybe year or two
> later, we'll upgrade to W2K3 and Yukon. Do you have any
> spec info for Yukon? I could find nothing on MSDN.com.
> or Do you have any recommendation for this new server? We
> are going to pick up one from Dell.
> Thanks for your help!!
> Harrison
>|||> Do you have any recommendation for this new server?
If you mean hardware, that's like me asking you what kind of car or house I
should buy. A lot of factors, aren't there?
--
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.aspfaq.com/|||There are about 100 end-users and current SQL 2000 will be
transfer into it. It includes 19 DBs and about 16G in
total. 25G Program Files, 8G User Folders. It will at
least good for 3 years and will upgrade to W2k3 and Yukon
on next year.
Harrison
>--Original Message--
>There is some information for Yukon on
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/
>For a server, you need to tell us what it is used for,
how many users, how
>many databases, database size etc to be able to give you
a rough idea of
>what you need.
>Cheers
>--
>Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
>Epprecht Consulting (PTY) LTD
>Johannesburg, South Africa
>Mobile: +27-82-552-0268
>IM: mike@.NOSPAMepprecht.net
>Specialist SQL Server Solutions and Consulting
>"Harrison" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>> Dear All,
>> We are looking for new server acting as our main DC as
>> well as SQL Server 2K. In the future, maybe year or two
>> later, we'll upgrade to W2K3 and Yukon. Do you have any
>> spec info for Yukon? I could find nothing on MSDN.com.
>> or Do you have any recommendation for this new server?
We
>> are going to pick up one from Dell.
>> Thanks for your help!!
>> Harrison
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New Server for Yukon and W2K3

Dear All,
We are looking for new server acting as our main DC as
well as SQL Server 2K. In the future, maybe year or two
later, we'll upgrade to W2K3 and Yukon. Do you have any
spec info for Yukon? I could find nothing on MSDN.com.
or Do you have any recommendation for this new server? We
are going to pick up one from Dell.
Thanks for your help!!
HarrisonThere is some information for Yukon on http://www.microsoft.com/sql/
For a server, you need to tell us what it is used for, how many users, how
many databases, database size etc to be able to give you a rough idea of
what you need.
Cheers
Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Epprecht Consulting (PTY) LTD
Johannesburg, South Africa
Mobile: +27-82-552-0268
IM: mike@.NOSPAMepprecht.net
Specialist SQL Server Solutions and Consulting
"Harrison" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Dear All,
> We are looking for new server acting as our main DC as
> well as SQL Server 2K. In the future, maybe year or two
> later, we'll upgrade to W2K3 and Yukon. Do you have any
> spec info for Yukon? I could find nothing on MSDN.com.
> or Do you have any recommendation for this new server? We
> are going to pick up one from Dell.
> Thanks for your help!!
> Harrison
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|||> Do you have any recommendation for this new server?
If you mean hardware, that's like me asking you what kind of car or house I
should buy. A lot of factors, aren't there?
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.aspfaq.com/|||There are about 100 end-users and current SQL 2000 will be
transfer into it. It includes 19 DBs and about 16G in
total. 25G Program Files, 8G User Folders. It will at
least good for 3 years and will upgrade to W2k3 and Yukon
on next year.
Harrison

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>Cheers
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>Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
>Epprecht Consulting (PTY) LTD
>Johannesburg, South Africa
>Mobile: +27-82-552-0268
>IM: mike@.NOSPAMepprecht.net
>Specialist SQL Server Solutions and Consulting
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New Java Driver spec

Will the future Java driver feature the full JDBC 4.0 specification?
When and how can we start participating with beta,pre-beta testing?Hi,
I heared that there will be a public beta late summer.|||The SQL Server 2005 driver will be a JDBC 3.0 spec level driver. The 4.0 spec is still in review and final release dates are still not set. We plan to move to 4.0 as soon as it is practical.

Re: public beta -- it will be announced sooner rather than later.

-shelby|||But the final specs are expected in a month, don't you think there is time to implement it before final release? Anyhow, even if at first it's 3.0 could you speculate on how long would it take to implemet the 4.0 specs?|||Implementing the 4.0 spec will be non-trivial. Even though the spec is in final review, the spec will not be available until the Java SE 6.0 (Mustang) release, which looks like the fall of '06 -- another year.

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver v1.0 will be 3.0 spec, but we plan to move to the 4.0 spec in a year when it is practical.

-shelby

New Java Driver spec

Will the future Java driver feature the full JDBC 4.0 specification?
When and how can we start participating with beta,pre-beta testing?Hi,
I heared that there will be a public beta late summer.|||The SQL Server 2005 driver will be a JDBC 3.0 spec level driver. The 4.0 spec is still in review and final release dates are still not set. We plan to move to 4.0 as soon as it is practical.

Re: public beta -- it will be announced sooner rather than later.

-shelby|||But the final specs are expected in a month, don't you think there is time to implement it before final release? Anyhow, even if at first it's 3.0 could you speculate on how long would it take to implemet the 4.0 specs?|||Implementing the 4.0 spec will be non-trivial. Even though the spec is in final review, the spec will not be available until the Java SE 6.0 (Mustang) release, which looks like the fall of '06 -- another year.

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver v1.0 will be 3.0 spec, but we plan to move to the 4.0 spec in a year when it is practical.

-shelby

New Java driver for SqlServer

Theres been rumors on a future effort in building a new JDBC driver to support the SqlServer 2k5. What level of JDBC will it strive to accomplish? Can it be a more open project? Also, the old driver perhaps lacks some things that higher JDBC specs feature so it would be nice if it could provide some sort of backward compatibility.
It would be nice to have the new RowSet thingies and some generics support.Hi schrepfler,

where can I get that old jdbc driver from? and did you use it with 2005 ?|||The old driver (latest version is SP3) can be found here. It's not a bad driver but it's old in architecture and should be updated. I haven't tried it with 2k5 as it is said it's not compatible plus I haven't installed sqlserver 2k5 yet (having problems in installation procedure).|||Thank you!!|||The best place to ask this is the Data Access forum, but we are working on the new driver so now is the time to give the feedback.

-Euan|||I thought first we have a alpha or beta product then we give feedback?|||You can wait but the earlier we get the feedback the better|||Ok, you convinced me, you want me to go to the DataAccess forum and ask what I want in the driver?|||Can I get a beta of the new Driver? I'm developing a CMS using a MySQL Database and would like to see if SQL Server 2005 is more powerful.|||Yep please do, we want all the input we can get.

-Euan

New Features for Charts??

Hi, I was wondering if there will be any new features for the chart control
in future releases reporting services.
At the moment it seems possible only to produce fairly simple charts. I
would like to produce composite charts similar to excel.
Does anyone knowOn Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:42:01 -0800, "James"
<James@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hi, I was wondering if there will be any new features for the chart control
>in future releases reporting services.
>At the moment it seems possible only to produce fairly simple charts. I
>would like to produce composite charts similar to excel.
>Does anyone know
James,
Charting is key to creating informative reports.
I feel sure that Microsoft will be looking to add more charting
capabilities to Reporting Services at some point in the future.
As far as I am aware no public announcement has yet been made about
possible future functionality in that respect.
Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath