Nice Regex Tool Espresso..

Nice Regex tool .http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm

Sharepoint and BizTalk Goodness

Found this excellent post on Sharepoint BizTalk adaptor

How Enterprise Ready is SQL

I recently got into an interesting debate on Oracle vs SQL and my point was SQL is pretty rock solid and cheaper for most customers. I will let some statistic do some talking

BizTalk 2010 Beta available for Download

Folks get your hands on the new BizTalk 2010 Beta here

The mapper imporivements alone is worth the money if you do lot of complex maps , HIPPA maps , EDI maps.

Quick EDI Sample Reference

Just Bookmarking for my own use a good link while I mentor people on BizTalk EDI

Biztalk 2009 R2

Cant wait to get my hands on BizTalk 2009 R2 after the demo video from PDC .
See here

The mappergets a complete overhaul with help from MSR

Top Features
- Relevance Tree
- Auto Scroll
- Gray out out of focus links ( reduce clutter )
- Move to Page
- Search
- VS 2010 integration

Returning Data from SAP Tables.

After spending a few frustrating hours on why my SAP RFC call was not returning data and the call was successful . We founf this little gem here from the LOB adapter team blog




If you're sending messages using the channel model instead of using a .NET proxy (for example, in BizTalk) - if the table node is missing from the input XML, we interpret that as if you're not interested in that table. If you do want the rows from that table in the response message, you should pass in the node in the input XML (0 rows, just the starting and ending parameter tag).