﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Microsoft Virtual Labs - SQL Server</title><link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/virtuallabs/</link><description>Microsoft Virtual Labs allow you to either quickly evaluate or learn how to build great applications for Windows and the Web, through a series of guided, hands-on labs which can be completed in 90 minutes.</description><copyright>(c) 2007, Microsoft, Inc. All rights reserved.</copyright><ttl>20</ttl><item><title>MSDN Express Virtual Lab: Dimension Designer and Best Practice Alerts</title><description>After completing this lab you will be better able to use: 1) Updated Create New Dimension Wizard</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8771455</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0745de47-ead3-4aeb-b2ea-eeeb1236d58e</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:44:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Express Virtual Lab: Hierarchy Id</title><description>After completing this lab you will be better able to: 1) Use Hierarchy ID Data</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8771456</link><guid isPermaLink="false">dc4a9b29-0fcb-4e58-84bf-a7a11fa1ad02</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:46:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Express Virtual Lab: T-SQL Enhancements - Date/Time-Table Valued Parameters - MERGE SQL Statement</title><description>After completing this lab you will be better able to: 1) Use the new Date and Time Data types</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8771458</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0d812d6c-04f6-4d3f-9081-450eefdda243</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:50:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab Express: Building Occasionally Connected Systems</title><description>After completing this lab you will be better able to: 1) Utilize occasionally connected systems</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8771454</link><guid isPermaLink="false">415a3b2e-f2f4-425d-b775-ea42be4193d2</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:10:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab Express: Change Data Capture</title><description>After completing this lab you will be better able to: 1) Use Change Data Capture in Integration Services</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8771460</link><guid isPermaLink="false">01925bb2-e904-48f9-a303-2e90d8f02c37</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:59:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab Express: Table Value Parameters + Merge Statement</title><description>After completing this lab you will be more familiar with: 1) Table Value Parameters; 2) Merge Statements</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8771457</link><guid isPermaLink="false">eba9a2a9-89b5-4979-b559-54d5204243bf</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:49:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab Express: What's new in SQL Server 2005</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Use the Try/Catch blocks in SQL; 2) PIVOT and UNPIVOT data; 3) Use the SQL Server Management Studio</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8704620</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b6ad601c-b5b1-45ba-976d-08a5ff9dd875</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab Express: What's new in SQL Server 2005</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Use the Try/Catch blocks in SQL; 2) PIVOT and UNPIVOT data; 3) Use the SQL Server Management Studio</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8771472</link><guid isPermaLink="false">aa57c345-af49-4e25-823a-6ef743191d2a</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:29:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab Express: X-Event Infrastructure</title><description>After completing this lab you will be better able to utilize: 1) XEvent – Procedure and Kernel Analysis; 2) XEvent – Queryable Schema</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8771461</link><guid isPermaLink="false">bbe9bb10-7248-4024-ad56-c5becc9b148c</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:13:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab Express: XML Enhancements</title><description>After completing this lab you will be more familiar with: 1) Managing relational and non-relational data in SQL Server 2008</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8771459</link><guid isPermaLink="false">55532e90-0b66-4674-8c42-3f1dbffb07ea</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:58:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Administering Servers by Using Declarative Management Framework (DMF) Policies</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Use the Declarative Management Framework; 2) Create a Surface Area Facet policy; 3) Configure the server to run the policy; 4) Create a naming convention policy</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7619175</link><guid isPermaLink="false">9b01532f-1636-497c-8b99-ff295aaa5938</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Analysis Services in SQL Server 2005</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Create an Analysis Services cube; 2) Create dimension attributes and hierarchies; 3) Create calculated members and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4540575</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ecc4c154-c057-4e0c-a610-132f88cacf93</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions Leveraging SQL Server 2005 and SharePoint Server 2007</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Create a Report in Excel; 2) Populate reports with data from a cube; 3) Store your connection and your workbook in SharePoint Libraries; 4) Publish a chart and a workbook; 5) Create a dashboard and populate it with your chart and KPI’s based on the data in your report; 6) Successfully created a SharePoint site; 7) Add a SharePoint site as a trusted site in Excel Services</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6949296</link><guid isPermaLink="false">e0b521eb-28c0-4840-93d3-5092b0b8049a</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions Leveraging SQL Server 2005 and SharePoint Server 2007</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Add it as a trusted site in Excel Services; 2) Successfully created a SharePoint site; 3) Created a Report in Excel; 4) Publish a chart and a workbook; 5) Store your connection and your workbook in SharePoint Libraries; 6) Create a dashboard and populated it with your chart and KPI’s based of the data in your report.; 7) Populated it with data from a cube</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6426179</link><guid isPermaLink="false">3a3b5ec3-c40c-4c12-bb5e-7eb24ffce9c8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Business Intelligence-  Excel 2007 PivotTables and Analysis Services</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Learn Workbook Connections; 2) Learn OLAP Formula Auto-Complete; 3) Learn Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); 4) Learn Server defined formatting; 5) Learn Perspectives; 6) Learn Member properties; 7) Convert Pivot Table to Formulas; 8) Create new OLAP PivotTable</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6496246</link><guid isPermaLink="false">627f17b0-f01d-489f-9acf-cfc1536ca0db</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Business Intelligence – Upgrading Analysis Services to SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Redesign an upgraded OLAP database to take advantage of the new features in Analysis Services 2005; 2) Perform an in-place upgrade of Analysis Services 2000 to Analysis Services 2005; 3) Perform a side-by-side upgrade of Analysis Services 2000 to Analysis Services 2005</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4872478</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8c25cc61-5bca-42ea-b16a-a32b48780265</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Business Intelligence- Business Scorecard Manager</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Familiarize users with the workspace; 2) Instruct users in the procedure for using already existing scorecard; 3) Instruct users in the procedure for modifying already existing scorecard; 4) Instruct users in the procedure for deploying a scorecard to a SharePoint site</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5981308</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7f14ec52-a69b-4116-aaf4-1fd6421c12b5</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Business Intelligence- Data Mining</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) View Mining Accuracy Charts; 2) Create a Prediction Query; 3) Model Time Series; 4) Create Decision Tree and Naïve Bayes Data Mining Models</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5981306</link><guid isPermaLink="false">84755902-0613-48eb-ab8d-4e2b03e7e77e</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Business Intelligence in Business Scorecard Manager 2005 and ProClarity for Performance Management</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Load ProClarity assets into a scorecard; 2) Navigate through the scorecard and view the ProClarity integration; 3) Create a report view in an existing scorecard and loading ProClarity assets into them</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6949310</link><guid isPermaLink="false">c1bd9603-93d8-49c2-a327-f9881ff29dac</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Business Intelligence in Excel 2007 Pivot Tables and Analysis Services</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Learn Server defined formatting; 2) Learn Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); 3) Learn Perspectives; 4) Create new OLAP PivotTable; 5) Learn Member properties; 6) Learn OLAP Formula Auto-Complete; 7) Convert Pivot Table to Formulas; 8) Learn Workbook Connections</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6949292</link><guid isPermaLink="false">851e9260-a842-42fd-a07f-65b07ecf8208</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Business Intelligence- Integration Services</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Monitor the progress of an SSIS package; 2) Log results from an SSIS package to both a text file and the Windows Event log; 3) Create an SSIS package project; 4) Create a SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) package</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5991766</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7bb12c-fb5a-44de-b8b1-06595076b932</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Business Intelligence- Report Builder</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Understand how model item properties affect end user reporting; 2) Auto-generate a Report Model in Model Designer; 3) Refine the model using model item properties; 4) Understand how model item properties affect end user reporting; 5) Auto-generate a Report Model in Model Designer; 6) Refine the model using model item properties</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5991764</link><guid isPermaLink="false">71ee6f3d-d983-48a3-bca3-08b9bacff1b0</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Business Intelligence- Service Analysis</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Create an Analysis Services cube; 2) Create dimension attributes and hierarchies; 3) Create calculated members and Key Perfomance Indicators (KPIs)</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5981305</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69024a52-4df1-44b0-8f94-b3df4a9a34c7</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Business Intelligence Upgrade– Migrating Data Transformation Services (DTS) to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Manually migrate DTS packages to SSIS; 2) Perform migrations by using an in-place or a side-by-side upgrade of SS2000 to SQL Server 2005; 3) Review the support that is available for managing, editing, and executing DTS packages after you upgrade the packages to SSIS</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4872477</link><guid isPermaLink="false">9f2ea87b-daa4-4fef-83b6-d8bfb99cf81f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Business Intelligence Upgrade– Upgrading Reporting Services to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Perform a side-by-side upgrade of Reporting Services 2000 to Reporting Services 2005; 2) Perform an in-place upgrade of Reporting Services 2000 to Reporting Services 2005; 3) Review the security requirements and execution features of Report Builder; 4) Perform report project upgrades and deployments by using a new instance of Reporting Services 2005</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4872476</link><guid isPermaLink="false">9e5e5eae-8342-44ba-91b0-6fd467850ea1</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Business Intelligence- Using Business Scorecard Manager 2005 and ProClarity for Performance Management</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Create a report view in an existing scorecard and loading ProClarity assets into them</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6496244</link><guid isPermaLink="false">f55f0b99-1096-48dd-a3c3-0a9114dee7af</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Implementing Change Data Capture (CDC)</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Explore metadata; 2) Query the CDC table to retrieve captured information; 3) Enable and Set up change data capture (CDC)</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7619173</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ae899724-1484-47d1-be1e-6be23302b3be</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Learn How to Build Occasionally Connected Applications</title><description>After completing this lab you will be better able to: 1) Add local cache support to a Windows Forms application; 2) Create an application that supports synchronizing; 3) Create a one-way sync of three lookup tables</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7695051</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d9a7ed97-dc03-4067-81f3-1d0eb7d068e7</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Mapping Your Objects to Database Tables with LINQ to SQL</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Create an object model from the database and customization of mapping between objects and tables; 2) Utilize data access tasks; 3) Use code generation to create the Object model</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7126745</link><guid isPermaLink="false">a31f7977-2cec-4e7c-be64-bbdc5d3ec847</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Performing an In-Place Upgrade of a SQL Server 2000 Relational Database Environment</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Fix issues reported by Upgrade Advisor; 2) Prepare the SQL Server 2000 environment for the in-place version upgrade; 3) Perform version upgrade of the SQL Server 2000 environment to SQL Server 2005; 4) Execute Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor to determine possible upgrade issues</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4872479</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2304be00-08f4-44d8-a0e9-1f1394dd5283</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Relational Database Upgrade – Performing a Side-by-Side Upgrade of a SQL Server 2000 Relational Database Using Backup / Restore Method</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Restore and upgrade the database.; 2) Back up the source database and review instance-level objects</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4872480</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8509981f-edd9-42ca-b40e-abc939f4a70d</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Relational Engine Upgrade– Performing a Side-by-Side Upgrade of a SQL Server 2000 Relational Database Using the Copy Database Wizard</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Review and execute the SSIS package.; 2) Use the Copy Database Wizard to create and save an SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package.</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4872481</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8ddbe9a4-f822-4581-9d70-a80597b3f970</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Relational Engine Upgrade– Upgrading a Clustered SQL Server 2000 Environment Using the Detach and Attach Method</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Review the source environment to detect server objects that you must migrate manually; 2) Upgrade a SQL Server 2000 database to a SQL Server 2005 database by using the detach and attach method; 3) Perform post-installation tasks that are required to migrate a SQL Server 2000 environment to a SQL Server 2005 environment</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4872482</link><guid isPermaLink="false">712b0cc2-aa5b-40a0-a5b2-84aef347b332</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 and ADO.NET (Lab A)</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Build a Windows application displaying a bound data grid; 2) Execute a long-running query</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4267443</link><guid isPermaLink="false">214bd510-b1f8-40ea-96e1-0e8bbc3c95d0</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 and ADO.NET (Lab B)</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Use SqlDependency and SqlNotifications; 2) Build a Windows application displaying a bound data grid.</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4267444</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7d0af927-6708-499e-9950-8510eeba3329</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 Hosted Trial</title><description>In this lab you will have access to: 1) Free-form SQL Server 2005 environment</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4682517</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0ffe6d57-bcb0-4c91-8195-d745d5824374</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 Integration Services</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Log results from a SSIS package; 2) Monitor the progress of a SSIS package; 3) Create a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4267409</link><guid isPermaLink="false">4216a298-41a4-49ea-8cdf-f02bb9534974</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005- Introduction to SQL Server Management Studio</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Use the new SQL Server Management Studio; 2) Perform basic SQL Server administration tasks</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4267441</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65d361cf-ef79-44ee-8086-0242008b0726</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 Report Builder</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Understand how model item properties affect end user reporting; 2) Refine the model using model item properties; 3) Auto-generate a Report Model in Model Designer</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4540578</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0da5ec36-35ae-4176-8676-922174b0e631</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 Report Viewer Controls</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Add a chart to a report; 2) Create a report that retrieves data from an object data source; 3) Filter the data shown on a report; 4) Customize sorting and grouping on a report</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4540581</link><guid isPermaLink="false">c3ba7493-87ae-4cad-beee-0b2fe40c13a0</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Manage Security; 2) Create a List Report; 3) Create a Report Using the Wizard</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4267440</link><guid isPermaLink="false">871bfc41-641f-4eeb-b1cc-204c1df3078d</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 Server Management Objects (SMO)</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Script out database objects with SMO; 2) Create Tables and Databases with Server Management Objects (SMO); 3) Back up databases with SMO</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4267446</link><guid isPermaLink="false">db0c50a3-625a-42fb-8257-16b2a2e3df63</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 Service Broker</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Write programs that service queues in both TSQL and SQLCLR; 2) Use the SqlDependency class to receive query notifications; 3) Create and configure message types, contacts, queues, and services; 4) Understand the relationship between the different Service Broker Constructs</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4540584</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66bddada-cadf-4ecc-b9fb-d2d740405971</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 SQL Query Tuning</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Use the SQL Profiler to troubleshoot deadlocks; 2) Generate a query plan for a poorly performing query; 3) Use the Database Tuning Advisor</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4267449</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ff6ba570-60dd-41ce-be4b-89d5a2833f5c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Enhancements</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Handle Exceptions in T-SQL; 2) Use the new PIVOT and UNPIVOT operators; 3) Use Recursive Query Expressions</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4267445</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ab5a8acd-bd0c-4166-b4ab-9f5642ea19cc</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 Web Services</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Create HTTP Endpoints; 2) Consume HTTP Endpoints</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4267447</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66ae895c-6ceb-4059-babf-fe1661621212</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2005 XML Capabilities</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Store XML data in a table; 2) Query XML data using a variety of mechanisms; 3) Modify XML data</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4267442</link><guid isPermaLink="false">bcb1a1d1-a891-4888-9f6f-bd2b155f34a7</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server Business Intelligence- Building Analytic Applications with ProClarity</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be better able to: 1) Use ProClarity to Share Analysis and Extend Collaboration; 2) Use the ProClarity Analytics Server to Analyze Results Produced in the Dashboard; 3) Facilitate Business Performance Monitoring with the ProClarity Dashboard; 4) Facilitate Unstructured Analysis of Data with ProClarity Professional</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6025652</link><guid isPermaLink="false">fd0da7e2-8a5a-45f7-9ca4-1d334df073ef</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Using Table Valued Parameters in SQL Server 2008</title><description>After completing this lab you will be better able to: 1) Work with Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8368061</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1c30fc30-5c3c-442e-b4ac-b6a75347067a</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:17:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Using Table Valued Parameters in SQL Server 2008</title><description>After completing this lab you will be better able to: 1) Work with Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8781616</link><guid isPermaLink="false">f7de6088-c5f1-4b37-a1ca-a5c88c08f393</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:13:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Using the new SQL Server 2008 Spatial Capabilities- GEOGRAPHY</title><description>After completing this lab you will be better able to: 1) Create instances of spatial data types; 2) Use spatial data type methods; 3) Create spatial indexes</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8368062</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1736307b-046e-416f-b717-a1a6fdfa78a7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:19:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Using the new SQL Server 2008 Spatial Capabilities- GEOGRAPHY</title><description>After completing this lab you will be better able to: 1) Create instances of spatial data types; 2) Use spatial data type methods; 3) Create spatial indexes</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8781617</link><guid isPermaLink="false">783a9fa7-1948-4002-9566-b7e2bc6ad78d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:15:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Using XQuery with SQL Server 2005 XML Data</title><description>In this lab, you will learn to: 1) Use the built-in methods of the XML data type to execute XQuery queries; 2) Execute XQuery and T-SQL together; 3) Modify XML data by using XQuery</description><link>http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4533654</link><guid isPermaLink="false">3b40971c-00a8-413f-b544-6e3a6714600a</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MSDN Virtual Lab: Working with the new DATE datatype in SQL Server 2008</title><description>After completing this lab, you will be more familiar with: 1) Use the new date/time related datatypes and their related functions; 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