Excellent article on SQL Server 2005 Common Table Expressions

SQL Server MVP Nigel Rivett has written an excellent article on Common Table Expressions on Red Gate Software's Simple Talk...

Identifying NTLM vs. Kerberos authentication using Fiddler

I saw this post on using Fiddler to tell the difference between an NTLM and a Kerberos connection to a...

Does your organization need a DBA? (part 2)

This is a follow-on to Does your organization need a DBA? and Andy Leonard's Database Professionals: An Enterprise Requirement.

I was...

Does your organization need a DBA?

Andy Leonard pens the following blog entry:

Database Professionals: An Enterprise Requirement

There are quite a few organizations that feel they can...

Succint Article on Encypting File System (EFS)

Encrypting File System, or EFS, first debuted in Windows 2000 and gave
users to encrypt files without a 3rd party tool....

Detecting SQL Server 2005 Properly

There is a new post in the SQL Server Express blog which indicates the
right way to detect SQL Server 2005:...

More SQL Server blogs

There is a new site for SQL Server blogs, SQLBlog.com. "Brought to you by Peter DeBetta & Adam Machanic," it has...

New Windows Vista Security Blog

If you're keeping up with Windows Vista and you're interested in the
security aspects of it, there's a new blog, with...

Connecting With Perl Using Win32 : ODBC

Perl has been a popular language for Unix administrators for years. It is flexible, easy to learn, and capable of doing some very powerful things with relatively few lines of code. In this article by Brian Kelly, he shows you how to connect to SQL Server via Perl.

Haidong Ji blogs on a tip for learning Perl

Haidong Ji, co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, blogged on Learning Perl using the Perl Debugger. Haidong posts...