July 2010 - Posts
Following on from my post on Friday, Session submission is now closed. There have been very close to 100 sessions submitted about pretty much everything to do with SQL Server (some very loosely!!)
Unfortunately we can’t fit all of these sessions into two days and it’s impossible to choose, so unlike many other conferences, it’s up to you lot to vote for the ones you want! As long as you have a registration on the SQLBits website you can vote (even if you don’t know if you can make it yet!). You get to vote for 10 sessions and the top sessions within each track will get the gig!
Power to the people!
I’m sure you’ve heard already that the next SQLbits runs from September 30th to October 2nd at York University but today (16th July) is the last chance if you want to submit a presentation. I’d better get mine in!
I can’t imagine too many people will have this issue, but just in case you you have a similar environment it’s bad news I’m afraid. Connections from 64-bit applications to AS2000 aren’t possible as there is no x64 oledb 8.0 AS driver. If you’re running IA64 then you’re fine as MS built a library for this version (?)
The alternatives? Run SharePoint and IIS in 32-bit mode or, probably better, point out to your boss/customer/IT dept that 2010 subtract 2000 = 10 years and that it really is time to upgrade to the wonders of SQL2008 R2. The fact they can actually get support for this version might help swing it ;)