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Sign up for other Newsletters  |   Unsubscribe  |   Update your profile Monthly Developer Update by MSDN-India Pinal Dave is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and a Mentor for Solid Quality India . He has written over 1200 articles on the subject on his blog at http://blog.sqlauthority.com. He is a dynamic and proficient Principal Database Architect, Corporate Trainer and Project Manager, who specializes in SQL Server Programming and has 7 years of hands-on experience. He holds an MS degree and a number of certifications, including MCDBA and MCAD (.NET). He is also Regional Mentor for PASS Asia. Pinal has a variety of experiences dealing with SQL Server over the past 8 years and has worked with environments with Terabytes of data and environments that had over a 1000 databases. Pinal has upgraded over 500 SQL Server 2000 instances to SQL Server 2008 so far. In his recent server tuning project, Pinal was responsible to optimize the server which was generating more than 1 TB data in short span of 10 minutes and at any moment there were more than 10000 concurrent transactions on database. Pinal has also mentored many projects where he has helped design .NET system architecture to take advantage of the updated Microsoft Technology as well efficient database design. Pinal is a strong believer of Microsoft Technology and his ultimate dream is to meet Bill Gates in person. Windows 7 Test Drive Site is Available This site enables you to test and assess Windows 7 from your browser through a collection of virtual labs and supporting videos. Download Windows SDK A set of tools, code samples, documentation, compilers, headers, and libraries that can be used to create applications that run on Microsoft Windows operating systems using native (Win32) or managed (.NET Framework) programming models. 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