If you have previous Beta or CTP versions of SQL Server 2005 installed and you’d like to play with the September CTP, Microsoft provides an utility to cleanly remove the older version and .Net Framework. The utility is called sqlbuw.exe, located at CD-Rom\SQL Server x86\Tools\Setup Tools\Build Uninstall Wizard.
It worked great for me on both my laptop and desktop. On my laptop, I had Beta 2; on desktop, June CTP.
Hi,
This is my first blog post. So let me start by introducing myself.
My name is Haidong Ji. I am a senior DBA in Chicago. I was a VB6/COM developer before my current position. I’ve been writing for SqlServerCentral for a couple of years now.
I grew up in a rural village in ShanDong province, China. Most people in the village have the same surname, Ji. Therefore it was aptly named as the Ji Village. I went to elementary school there. My middle school years were spent in a small town not too far from the village. I went to high school in our county town. After I flunked the college entrance exam the first time, I endured the shame of taking one more year of high school and succeeded in my second try with flying colors. I can laugh at it now, but then I was really embarrassed by that failure (Plus, the fact that I failed to enter a good middle school and good high school due to my poor exam performance didn’t really help things;). So much so that I never told any of my university classmates that I failed the first time. It felt terrible to hide that from them. I suspect there were quite a few others like me in that regard.
I went to university in Xiamen, southeast China. It was a beautiful city and I miss it a lot.
I came to the US in 1995 for my MS degree in Economics, after working/slacking in Beijing for one year. I started working in the IT industry in 1997. My formal computer science education is laughable. In Xiamen University, I took a PC(DOS) introductory course and a course on dBase. In the US, I took an introductory programming course. That is all the formal computer education I got. The rest of my IT knowledge was self taught over the years. I acquired my first PC in 1998. So when people talk about their first Commodore 64 or Sinclare, I’ve absolutely no idea of what they are talking about:)
Haidong is my given name. In Chinese, it literally means “east of the sea”. However, since I live in Chicago, I figured it would be easier for other people if I adopt a western name. I travel quite a bit, so this name has to work in most countries I travel to. Therefore, I picked Alex as my adopted western name;) I am a classic guy with a classic name, what a great combination:)
I started reading blogs about 3 years ago. I found it to be a very good way to communicate and reach a wide audience. I decided to start my own blog after I came back from PASS conference in Grapevine. Since I started my technical writing at SqlServerCentral, it makes perfect sense that I should start my blog writing here as well.
I will write a lot of Sql server related stuff here. I will focus on automation, scripting, performance, and monitoring. Hopefully you will find them interesting. And please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Please excuse the dust for the next few days/weeks, as I try to polish the design a little bit.
Update: The first few posts were copied from SqlServerCentral.com blogs. This site will be my primary blogging site. The SqlServerCentral.com blog will focus primarily on Microsoft Sql Server. This site will include that, with additional posts on everything else that I can think of.