Stealth Updates

Editorial coming next week, but so far this is amazing to me. Microsoft's stealth updates of their client update tool....

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What's an Outage?

I caught this quote from Microsoft Watch, and thought it was very interesting. It definitely addresses an issue I've wondered about for some time. It talks about the WGA server issues and had this great quote from the WGA Product Manager:

Recruiters

Do you like recruiters? Do you use them? It's almost impossible not to use them these days when looking for a job. So many of the listings on online job boards are from recruiters and many have deals to place people, so chances are you'll at least deal with on even if they don't get you a job.

SQL Server Spotlight on Rob Zare

With business intelligence and the Anaylsis Services platform becoming more and more popular, this has to be the hottest development team for SQL Server. Join us with a look at one of the leaders of Analysis Services development, Rob Zare.

The Challenges of Podcasting

OK, here's one take. Not sure if it's any good, but it's a start.

No live editorials yet. I've been working...

The language used to write data mining queries...

Podcasting

I'm working on getting a small studio set up for some podcasting of the editorials. That means I put a...

The Cloud

I was interested to hear about Microsoft providing some services and storage in the "Cloud." I remember hearing about Amazon making disk space and computing services available to users.

What Could Go Wrong?

It's the law of unintended consequences: things happening that you don't expect from a seemingly unrelated area. This article talks about a data center having leaks from carpet cleaning above. The concrete floor had aged and the carpet cleaners dumped water on the carpet to soak it through and it leaked. I'm not sure how people have data centers below office floors, but I know I've had a number of them at different companies where I've worked.