Building Connection Strings

I ran across a great article on Connection Strings from my good friend, Allen White (b, t, c), recently. Quite...

Two Days Off

Verizon is taking their cloud service offline for maintenance for two days. Steve Jones doesn't think that sounds good.

Error messages

Test Your Situation

One of the important things is to be able to recover your environment. That doesn't mean you need to know everything about SQL Server and potential disasters, but you should know their affect on your situation.

NULL Aggregates

Recovering from Bad Deployments

When you deploy software, what do you do if things don't go well? Steve Jones talks about a few options you might have.

Beware of Login Issues for Privileged Accounts

In a recent post, I described an attack against a privileged account using a simple SQL Injection technique of updating...

Staying Successful

What helps people be successful in a company? Perhaps a little analytic work can help employers determine this.

My 2015 Plan

I started this on Jan 1, but with family commitments, I ended up delaying it until today. I wrote about...

What's Coming True?

Steve Jones looks forward to the new year and asks in this poll what you think will happen.