Free Training

I heard on Thursday a couple weeks ago that someone who had received a free admission to the PASS conference had cancelled and wasn't able to attend. It was last minute and that pretty much ruled out any chance to have a contest, so I called a friend in Denver who's a DBA and doesn't get much of a budget for training. I offered him the admission and he said he'd let me know Friday.

RSS Everywhere

With the new codebase in place, RSS is pervasive throughout the site. Get a few hints here on how this works.

Which Service Broker object is used to access...

Billy-yons and Billy-yons of Records

There was an article last week with a great title: The Mother of All Genealogy Databases, and so I had to take a look at it. It talks about some of the large databases on the Internet that are collection public records and linking them together to help people find out about their individual and family histories. The largest site so far, Ancestry.com, supposedly has 5 billion records.

SQLServerCentral.com - The Missing Manual

Lots of changes to the site, see how to work with some of them.

SQLServerCentral.com - V3

The third evolution in the history of SQLServerCentral.com is now out and available. Read all about the changes we've gone through.

Three Months

That's what we were estimating the rewrite of this site would take. After all, to me it's a pretty simple site, a few content sections, some date specific stuff, scheduling, a few admin tools, not that much, right?

While restoring your SQL Server 2005 database's transaction...

SQLServerCentral.com - V3!

It's done, it's out, and check it out!!!

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This was a fairly...

A Fun Poll

Since I've spent most of the week at the PASS Summit, and have been busy meeting with people there instead of working on this site, I opted for a more fun, less thought-requiring poll.