Finding a New Laptop Bag
For the past couple years I've been using a Targus (I think the model 300 right now) and they've been...
2009-05-18
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Blog Posts
Larger & Cheap(er?) Monitors
I stopped by Compusa on the way home to pick up a package of blank DVD's and did the 10...
2009-05-18
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Microsoft Offers User Groups Direct Support
If you are a leader of a Microsoft-related user’s group, and you haven’t done so already, you will want to...
2009-05-18
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Sign Up to Be Notified When SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP Release is Available
If you want to be the first on your block to see the CTP (Community Technology Preview) of SQL Server...
2009-05-18
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SQL Server Encryption - Hashing Limitations
As I'm digging more into SQL Server 2008 encryption I'm learning some interesting things about how SQL Server handles encryption....
2009-05-18
2,704 reads
TechEd 2009 Recap
Keynote speaker, Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President of Windows Business at Microsoft.
TechEd 2009 was started with a keynote presentation from...
2009-05-18
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Back in the Top 5
My rolling 30 day post count dropped crazily this weekend. I noticed, but with family committments, I didn't do anything...
2009-05-17
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The Pro-Active DBA during the Economic Tsunami
As none of us are immune to the current financial crisis, and your development projects have probably come to a...
2009-05-16
759 reads
Notes from the May 14, 2009 Space Coast SQL Server User Group Meeting
I went over last night to do a presentation to the group managed by Bonnie and Lynn. Had 11 in...
2009-05-15
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SQL Injection - Why I Don't Think Parameterization is Enough
Note:Since there have been several comments on this, I'm using parameterization at the application layer in the security sense of...
2009-05-15
2,705 reads
Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Forums
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Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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