To collect information for your SQL Server Infrastructure, there are two ways I can recommend. 
The first, as mentioned from Technet recently, is to execute the following parameter details on any SQL Server installation (I tested back to 2000), by run the following command.

exec xp_msver "ProductName", "ProductVersion", "Language", "Platform", "WindowsVersion",… Read more

Recently I was handed over a HFS volume to read from my colleague who uses his Macbook exclusively.  We had tried passing data through Bluetooth, but gave up due to some formatting that I hadn’t done yet on my 8GB MicroSD card on the CrackBerry.

So he handed… Read more

Free E-Book on SQL Server 2008 R2

Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner have done a wonderful job on this free e-book

http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2010/04/14/free-ebook-introducing-microsoft-sql-server-2008-r2.aspx

You can download the full ebook in XPS format here and in PDF format here.

The book contains 10 chapters and… Read more

Currently, MVPs from across the country are attending an all day event.

We are discussing Azure, Windows Live, Office 2010, Windows Mobile, Hardware, Security and Xbox.

It is great to hang with all the local peers and get a heads up from our Canadian MVP Lead Simran… Read more

After several months of reflection/rewrites with colleagues (because orignally I forgot the Rollback plan - oops), and reworking the bilingual templates, the great editors at Simple-Talk.com have pushed the latest work to the front page starting this Monday April, 19th:

 Deployment Management is Worth IT: These Templates Should Make… Read more