Software Design and Schizophrenic Windows 8 Part 2

I know it’s not schizophrenic, but that sounds better. It’s really a split personality.
I wrote recently about Windows 8 and...

Honeywords in SQL Server

There's an idea of using false passwords with real accounts, honeywords, that can help us detect security issues with our servers. Is that worth implementing in SQL Server?

Not My Google Reader Replacement

Someone suggested Newsblur to me, and I went to their home page. Like many sites, it asks you to sign...

The Challenger

There is plenty of competition in the database platform space for SQL Server. There's a new NuSQL platform, whose vendor hopes will replace SQL Server as the platform of choice in the cloud. However Steve Jones isn't sure this will be the case.

Webinar: Forgotten Rings and Other Monitoring Stories

In this session, Grant Fritchey, Microsoft MVP, drills down into a few of the more obscure monitoring metrics that can give you very precise information about exactly what's happening within your server. He'll also show you how you can use custom metrics to enable these metrics in Red Gate's SQL Monitor.

Webinar: Using SQL Storage Compress by Steve Jones and Brad McGehee

Steve Jones and Brad McGehee lead you through real-world examples of working with SQL Storage Compress

The Platform Problem

Steve Jones sees a problem with the Azure platform. It's one that he thinks is limiting adoption, and may become a big problem for Microsoft at some point.

T-SQL Tuesday #42–The Long and Winding Road

It’s T-SQL Tuesday time, this month hosted by Wendy Pastrick who asks you to talk about the Long and Winding...

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Schizophrenic Windows 8

I’ve been using Windows 8 almost exclusively for about 3 weeks. I got a new desktop a couple months back,...