Speaking at SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola on June 6, 2009

I'm driving over tonight to spend a long weekend in Pensacola (6-7 hour drive from Orlando) for their first SQLSaturday,...

SQLServerCentral Article on Backup Monitoring and Reporting

The article, Backup Monitoring and Reporting, demonstrates a SQL Server backup reporting solution I use in my production environment. Some highlights of...

TRY/CATCH - The Great Way to Handle Exceptions in SQL 2005/8

This is based on the original post in Franglais.

The goal of this post is to explain how to handle errors...

Balancing Priorities

This one isn't a technical post, but it's entirely appropriate to those of us in the IT field. Today was a...

Other Desktops

The USB not in Hyper-V thing is annoying. It actually made me stop and consider my alternatives for a desktop....

Notes on SQLSaturday #7

I flew up to Birmingham Friday for SQLSaturday #7 organized by John Baldwin from Steel City SQL and a lot...

Reminder - SQLSaturday #12 in Portland is June 6, 2009

Ken Starnes from the Portland group will be having their first event on June 6th. I like the way they've...

Security Basics: Understanding the Surface Area

When it comes to securing a system, it's important to understand how it might be attacked. That's what surface area...

SQL Server Encryption - Hashing Collisions

A hash is a computation that transforms one set of data into another (hopefully smaller) set of data. So a...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

For those who are interested, I've got a couple of speaking engagements coming up in the next two weeks. I'll be speaking...