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Archives: June 2006
Microsoft Office 2007 Delayed
Office 2007 Delayed Again (InternetNews.com)
I don't see anything on the Microsoft's PressPass portion of their web site,…
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 29 June 2006
Idera SQL Check updated for SQL Server 2005
You can download the new version…
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 28 June 2006
WinFS rolled into next version of SQL Server
A blog posting from the WinFS team caught me a bit by surprise today. Apparently I wasn't the only one, judging by the comments. WinFS was supposed to give us a relational file system. There are security ramifications with doing that, as demonstrated in this video from BlueHat 2006 (from… Read more
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 27 June 2006
Passed
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 26 June 2006
Top 100 Network Security Tools
This is a bit dated (it came out last week), but here is the list of the top 100 network security tools, as compiled from a survey by Fyodor:
Since Fyodor conducted the survey, nMap was disqualified, so you won't see it on the list. Most of the tools… Read more
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 26 June 2006
How Embarassing
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 23 June 2006
Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) Local Chapter in Columbia, SC
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 23 June 2006
SANS Stay Sharp Course - SEC351: Computer and Network Security Awareness
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 21 June 2006
Whitepaper: SQL Server 2005 Physical Database Storage Design
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 15 June 2006
Be on the lookout for the mistakes of others
I've come to learn that there are some really flaky systems out there. Not just a few quirks here and there, but significant problems that someone should have caught.
For example, I spent some time earlier this week consolidating two SQL Server machines into one. Through this process, I had… Read more
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Posted in Tim Mitchell on 15 June 2006
Distributing Database Connection Strings Using Active Directory Group Policy
An application…
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 13 June 2006
TechEd - DATTLC01 : Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005
It's been a few years since I wrote my eBook on SQL Server performance monitoring but I still keep a strong interest in database performance and what people are doing to tweak more cycles out of their database servers. After all, if the database server isn't performing to expectations (so… Read more
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 12 June 2006
In Boston for TechEd
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 11 June 2006
Training Center
Today was a bunch of emails between Andy, Brian and myself. Andy and I getting the pages setup, the schedule down, and the…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 9 June 2006