Windows 7 to be released next month - SQL Server related info...

 I wanted disseminate some news to our DBA audience regarding the long anticipated release of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows...

Windows Internal Database

This past Friday I received a call from our systems team stating that they were running low on Disk Space...

Next oPASS Meeting is Sep 15, 2009

We’ve got a great meeting coming up with Todd Holmes doing a mini presentation on Backup Basics, followed by Jorge...

PASS Update #14

I’ve been on the board just about 8-1/2 months, so I’m not doing too bad on updates, but think I’ll...

SQL Saturday Dallas Update

Just a quick update on the SQL Saturday event we are planning for the Dallas area next year.  Late last...

Issue with SQL Server 2K5 SP3 CU5

In case you are considering to apply SQL Server SP3 CU5 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972511) to your system, I'd like to point out...

Meeting Sept 15th at the Microsoft Technology Center - Auditing Considerations: Native SQL 2008 and Third Party Auditing Technologies.15

Hello all!
We will be having our normal meeting at the Microsoft technology center sponsored by:

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Stonebridge Plaza, Building One...

Recursion with SQL Server 2008 within the Financial World

As most of you, we in the financial world have often been faced with the challenge of extracting data from...

.Net SQLConnectionStringBuilder ApplicationName Property

We have several “Home Grown” applications at my current place of employment.  This provides our development staff with a great...

A Moment of Silence

Today is the anniversary of one of the worst attacks in the US, the September 11th attack on the World...