Vendor Neutral Database Certification
First saw this off of Planet MySQL:
New Vendor Neutral Database Certification (Dave's Stuff)
Following the link to the CIW site, there...
2008-01-28
2,869 reads
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Inexpensive Video Training from Internals Expert, Kalen Delaney
I saw this in my blog reader today:
You can pre-order the Kalen Delaney SQL Server Internals Course - Lesson 1 DVD...
2008-01-25
1,073 reads
New Technique to Steal From Baggage
I first saw this on funsec security discussion list:
Dwarves zipped in
suitcases steal from Swedes
The gist of the story...
2008-01-25
795 reads
Post on Troubleshooting Memory Issues
Here's a post from the Windows Server Performance Team:
An Overview of Troubleshooting Memory Issues
The post discusses the following issues:
Physical...
2008-01-25
1,189 reads
SQL Server 2008 RTM looks to be 3rd Quarter
On the Microsoft Data Platform Insider blog, there is a post indicating new roadmap dates:
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Roadmap...
2008-01-25
1,649 reads
Two Acquisitions of Note
Saw both of these on ComputerWorld:
Oracle buying BEA
Sun buying MySQL
It'll be interesting to see how this changes the...
2008-01-16
743 reads
Getting Better at Time Management
One of the things I took from my overall performance last year is I need to get better at time...
2008-01-03
644 reads
Why Participating in a Community is Important and Beneficial
Back in 2000 I began writing for swynk.com in hopes of learning more about SQL Server and beginning to make...
2008-01-03
6,197 reads
Tribute to Honor Jim Gray
Saw this on the Association for Computer Machinery SIGMOD announcements.
Tribute to Honor Jim Gray
It is scheduled for May 31, 2008...
2007-12-05
560 reads
Honeypots in the Database
As a follow up to my post about Cesar Cerrudo's new whitepaper, earlier this month David Litchfield talked about putting...
2007-11-23
2,349 reads
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