I went to an abbreviated version of the Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals launch this morning. The reason for the shorter than usual launch is because freezing rain began falling mid-morning making roads treacherous. They thought we would appreciate getting out of there early. St. Louis has… Read more

I've heard a lot of complaints about SQL Server Management Studio concerning slowness and some of the things, like scripting out objects into individual files, that are missing.  I have been using it to manage my SQL Server 2000 and 2005 servers for several months and have gotten used to… Read more

Sadly, I haven't had much experience yet with SQL Server 2005 except for Reporting Services and SSIS. The majority of my databases are for third-party
applications that are not yet certified for SQL Server 2005 or require an upgrade so I'll be running 2000 for quite awhile at work.

This… Read more

While at PASS, I created a thread in the forums: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=61&messageid=322277 .  It was an incredible week.  I look forward to implementing many of the things I learned about.

Attending the Summit as a volunteer is a totally different experience.  You meet someone like Bill Graziano from working on a… Read more