Is Documentation Dying?

The BOL for SQL Server 2005 has been interesting to read. On one hand there is a more comprehensive approach...

Blue Hat

    Microsoft had their Blue Hat security conference recently, inviting hackers to take their shots at the Microsoft products. Mostly security...

Picking Things Apart

One of the challenges in writing about a new version of SQL Server is
finding out information, especially for the less...

Getting Your Arms Around It

    I've been working on the "Designing a Database Consolidation Strategy" chapter of my book and it's been quite an effort....

And Bad Writing

I haven't had time to research the extent, but someone reported plagiarism and the author admitted the code, while "from...

Good Writing

I left at lunch to hit the gym and then meet a friend. Afterwards I stopped by Starbucks to do...

Responsibility

This is very interesting.

I've often thought that blogs were a great source of information, but it is more unvetted than...

Slightly Connected

Sometimes those connection problems come in the most interesting ways.

I took a few minutes over lunch today to try...

Photos

I had a couple people ask about the move after my editorial, but my wife doesn't like the address to...

SSC Moving

As if it weren't enough that I was moving my home, the SSC site is also moving. I'll drop some...