<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/mmm2008-05-17_13.22/rsspretty.aspx?rssquery=en-US;http%3a%2f%2fdineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com%2fcategory%2fSQL%2bServer%2b2008%2ffeed.rss' version='1.0'?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:msn="http://schemas.microsoft.com/msn/spaces/2005/rss" xmlns:live="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Dinesh's Blog             ::::::: Being Compiled :::::::: SQL Server 2008</title><description /><link>http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&amp;_c=BlogPart&amp;partqs=catSQL%2bServer%2b2008</link><language>en-US</language><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:40:52 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:40:52 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>Microsoft Spaces v1.1</generator><docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs><ttl>60</ttl><cf:parentRSS>http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/blog/feed.rss</cf:parentRSS><live:type>blogcategory</live:type><live:identity><live:id>4683496953178731031</live:id><live:alias>dineshpriyankara</live:alias></live:identity><cf:listinfo><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="typelabel" label="Type" /><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="tag" label="Tag" /><cf:group element="category" label="Category" /><cf:sort element="pubDate" label="Date" data-type="date" default="true" /><cf:sort element="title" label="Title" data-type="string" /><cf:sort ns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" element="comments" label="Comments" data-type="number" /></cf:listinfo><item><title>New article on TDE</title><link>http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!40FF1FAA28D7B217!901.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;My first article on SQL Server 2008 has been published at &lt;a href="http://sql-server-performance.com"&gt;http://sql-server-performance.com&lt;/a&gt;. I wrote this article based on the tests I did regarding Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) that is newly introduced with SQL Server 2008. This articles covers; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;What is Transparent Data Encryption? &lt;li&gt;Implementation of TDE. &lt;li&gt;Is my database secure now, as it says? &lt;li&gt;What needs to be considered before enabling TDE? &lt;li&gt;What is the impact when TDE is enabled?&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;You can read my article at &lt;a title="http://sql-server-performance.com/articles/dba/Transparent_Data_Encryption_p1.aspx" href="http://sql-server-performance.com/articles/dba/Transparent_Data_Encryption_p1.aspx"&gt;http://sql-server-performance.com/articles/dba/Transparent_Data_Encryption_p1.aspx&lt;/a&gt;. Please let me know you thoughts on this, you can either add a comment to the article or send me an email to &lt;a href="mailto:dinesh@sqlserveruniverse.com"&gt;dinesh@sqlserveruniverse.com&lt;/a&gt;. I will writing two more articles on SQL Server 2008, will be publishing at &lt;a href="http://sqlserveruniverse.com"&gt;http://sqlserveruniverse.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://sql-server-performance.com"&gt;http://sql-server-performance.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=4683496953178731031&amp;page=RSS%3a+New+article+on+TDE&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=dineshpriyankara"&gt;</description><comments>http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!40FF1FAA28D7B217!901.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!40FF1FAA28D7B217!901.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:37:15 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!40FF1FAA28D7B217!901/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!40FF1FAA28D7B217!901.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2008-06-12T00:37:15Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>Give something good on SQL 2008 and win great prizes</title><link>http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!40FF1FAA28D7B217!885.entry</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a chance to show your colors and win very valuable prizes. All you have to do is, write some, creative, good code on SQL Server 2008 that will help to the community and send to CodePlex.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For more details, click on &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlheroes/pages/sql-heroes-2008-official-contest-rules.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=4683496953178731031&amp;page=RSS%3a+Give+something+good+on+SQL+2008+and+win+great+prizes&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=dineshpriyankara"&gt;</description><comments>http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!40FF1FAA28D7B217!885.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!40FF1FAA28D7B217!885.entry</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:24:14 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!40FF1FAA28D7B217!885/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://dineshpriyankara.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!40FF1FAA28D7B217!885.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2008-03-10T01:24:14Z</dcterms:modified></item></channel></rss>