February 1, 2010 [Volume 2, Issue 3]
 Who among us wouldn't want to go back to our childhood and enjoy those lovely playful time once again? Well, here is a challenge that might take you back to your childhood and might keep you busy sorting and filling colorful balls into different boxes. Here is an interesting challenge. Read More »
 We have been working very hard on building a Business Intelligence (BI) resource center at beyondrelational.com. A few weeks back we introduced the XML resource center which is currently at the early stage, but will soon be a valuable location for learning the XML features in SQL Server.
The goal of the BI resource center is to bring you enough resources to learn and master Microsoft Business Intelligence platform and products. We are trying to add enough articles, blogs, tutorials, videos and training materials to the BI resource center which will help people interested in BI to get started and build expertise in Business Intelligence.
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Editorial - Early review of challenges was successful!
 We tried the idea of making the challenges avaliable for an early review by selected volunteers with the last TSQL Challenge and it was found to be very helpful. The early review process helped us to add more clarification to the challenge rules and enhance the challenge description. After the challenge is published, we found comparatively less number of questions in the forums. We would like to acknowledge the great efforts those volunteers are putting to make TSQL Challenges better.
Another area that we focus on improving is the the speed of evaluation process. We have achieved some progress in this and you will see some visible improvements very soon.
In addition, we added two focussed sections in the website, one dedicated to SQL Server XML and the other to Business Intelligence. We are working hard on improving the content on these sections and bring more resources that will help you to improve your SQL Server skills on those areas. I look forward to hear your comments and suggestions to come up with more exciting stuff and improve the existing resources.
Cheers!
Jacob Sebastian, Editor.
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This is the second part of a long interview where Microsoft Technology Evangelist Vinod Kumar speaks about the Beyond Relational features of SQL Server 2008.
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